“Well, now, aren’t you afraid to claim that, for fear people will think that you saved yourself?”
“I don’t understand,” Ruth said, gravely.
“Don’t you? Why, you fear to claim Christ’s promise to you—that his grace is now sufficient for every demand that you choose to make on it—for fear people will think you consider yourself perfect. Why should they not, just as readily, think that because you relied on Christ for final salvation therefore you relied on yourself?”
“That is a foolish contradiction.”
“Yes; isn’t the other?”
“I never heard anybody talk as you do,” was Ruth’s answer.
“I haven’t a different Bible from yours,” Susan said, smiling. “You admit to me that the promise about which we are talking is in yours, and you read it yesterday. What I wonder is, what you think it means.”