4 Sermon Illustrations on Salvation Message

I heard of a Sunday-school concert at which a little child of eight was going to recite. Her mother had taught her, and when the night came the little thing was trembling so she could scarcely speak. She commenced, "Jesus said," and completely broke down. Again she tried it: "Jesus said suffer," but she stopped once more. A third attempt was made by her, "Suffer little children--and don't anybody stop them, for He wants them all to come," and that is the truth. There is not a child who has a parent in the Tabernacle but He wants, and if you but bring them in the arms of your faith and ask the Son of God to bless them and train them in the knowledge of God, and teach them as you walk your way, as you lie down at night, as you rise up in the morning, they will be blessed.

NATURE, Light of Take the question, "What must I do to be saved?" — take it to Nature in all her kingdoms, in all her realms, in all her laboratories, in all her chambers of mystery; take it here and there, and knock at every door, and put the question: but there is no response, no answer at all. Nature, philosophy, science, all are dumb to that great question, "What must I do to be saved?" As to the happiness of the soul in the separate state hereafter, Nature can tell us nothing certain about that: it is fallible conjecture, not certain knowledge; ardent wish, not positive assurance; a feeble flickering, not undoubted, substantive, absolute revelation. And as to the resurrection of the body after it has slept the sleep of a thousand generations, — its resurrection in beauty, immortality, and glory, — that is a doctrine so peculiar to revelation, that it never was once so much as dreamed of by any of the sages of antiquity as being contained within the whole circle of divine truth.

— Dr. Beaumont