Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WHAT IS CONVERSION? If one does not love God, he is an unsaved sinner, and he will remain unsaved until there comes such a change In him that he does love God. This change is conversion, and, in order to bring it about, God has given us his Son and his Spirit, his Word of Truth, his Providence, his Church and all the means of Grace which we enjoy. God is unwilling that we should live on in a life which is devoid of love for him. He seeks to win us to himself. In his holy Word he tells us about himself. In Christ he personally reveals himself to us. In his Holy Spirit he pleads with us. In the Church his truth is preached and his in- itations are repeated and urged upon our attention. In all the dispensations of his Providence and Grace he comes to us seeking to influence our lives and win us to his love. Those who yield to his gracious Influences and come to love him, know what it means to be converted. They have turned from the old life. They love God. A change has come to them, the most significant and Important that can come to human hearts. However bad they were, or however good they were before, they did not love God. They were strangers to grace. They were among the unsaved. Some persons know when they were converted. They can tell the very moment and the very place. They Know what passage of Scripture, what sermon or what providential dealing of God was used for their conversion. They remember how they were opposed to Christ before this, and the very attitude they took against the truth of the Gospel or the work of the Church. But now this Is all in the past. They now adore and trust In the Savior, hom they once rejected. They now love to pray and to read God’s Word, and they are grateful for even a humble place In the Church. A great change has come to them. Th…
