"The way of salvation is so plain that he that runneth may read."
"So you say, mother; but I don't see it so. Now I'll tell you what: I want to be good."
"My dear boy!"
"And I pray, and will pray to God to teach me whatever he wants me to learn. So if your way is the right one, God will teach me that. Will that satisfy you, mother?"
"My dear, it is of no use mincing matters. God has told us plainly in his holy Word that he that puts his trust in the merits of Christ shall be saved; and he that does not shall be sent to the place of misery for ever and ever."
The good woman believed that she was giving a true representation of the words of Scripture when she said so, and that they were an end of all controversy.
"But, mother, what if a man can't believe?"
"Then he must take the consequences. There's no provision made for that in the Word."
"But if he wants to believe, mother?" said. Tom, in a small agony at his mother's hardness.