SALVATION IN ITS INDIVIDUAL RELATIONS. BY THOMAS L. BOSWELL, D. D., OF THE MEMPHIS CONFERENCE. "What must I do to be saved?"-Acts xvi, 30. SALVATION is commonly understood as deliverance from danger, whether temporal or spiritual. It is therefore a subject of the greatest moment to one exposed to imminent danger. Its importance is to be estimated according to the magnitude of the interests involved. Hence, if a man's health, character, or life, is exposed to great danger, and likely to be lost or greatly damaged, and it is quite beyond his power to escape, and in his great extremity some kind friend interposes and effects his deliverance, he is gratefully appreciated as a saviour. But let us apply the idea of salvation in a spiritual sense to the interests of man's immortal soul, and the greatness of the danger (and consequently of the deliverance) is at once inconceivably augmented. Think of an immortal soul, all polluted with sin and iniquity, exposed to the wrath of God, "in danger of eternal damnation;" think of the inexorable law of God-the claims of infinite justice; think of the infinite love of God in the gift of his eternal Son, to be made flesh and dwell among us; think of his midnight prayers, his agonizing sweat of blood; think of his sufferings on the cross, and ignominious death!—and all to atone for sin, and to make the sinner's salvation possible; and then think of this salvation actually applied to a penitent believer, through the agency of the Eternal Spirit: How great, and good, and glorious! Well might the augels desire to look into these things, and rejoice more over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety-and-nine just persons that need no repentance. And well may men upon earth rejoice and be exceeding glad at so gracious a display of omnipotent goodness in the salvation of perishing sinners. "How then shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?" How shall we escape the condemnation and pollution of sin, the wrath 1 the agency or the Eternal Spirit: How Well mi tie augols desire to look toy ice more over one sinner that repenteth, just persons that no I no repentance. And 'role and be exceeding glvl at so gratort goodness in the salvation of perishing sha we sempe, if we neglect so great salvation !" hall we esespe the maple-anetica and pollution of sin, the width |