"He is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him.”—Heb. vii. 25. "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin."-1 John, i. 7. "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”—Isa, i. 18. UNTO THE UTTERMOST! I. UNTO THE UTTERMOST. FILTERING through the religious teaching of to-day there is a spirit of moral pessimism that gendereth to despair. The appalling doctrine gains currency, that man may glide imperceptibly downward in the path of sin to a point from which there is no possibility of return to the light and freedom of a holy life. Largely as the result of the influence of the scientific spirit of the times upon religious thought, it has come to be taken for granted that in virtue of the inevitable tendency of moral force to persist in the course upon which it has started, the evil doer may sink into a condition in which he is incapable of redemption. It is averred that even in this life the erring feet of man may pass beyond the boundary line of hope, and his probation be practically ended. Over against this gospel of doom, to which false exegesis has given an |