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Elsie at Nantucket

CHAPTER IV
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Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.' "That name is the name of Jesus of Nazareth, the crucified One.

He is the only Saviour.

We speak--the Bible speaks of being saved by faith, but faith is only the hand with which we lay hold on Christ.
"'A Saviour yet to come ?' There is none; and will faith in a myth save the soul?
No; nor in any other than Him who is the Door, the Way, the Truth, the Life.
"'He is mighty to save,' and He alone; He Himself said, 'No man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.' "And is it not for the very sin of rejecting their true Messiah, killing Him and imprecating His blood upon them and on their children, that they have been scattered among the nations and have become a hissing and a byword to all people ?" "True, mamma, and yet are they not still God's own chosen people?
Are there not promises of their future restoration ?" "Yes, many, in both the Old Testament and the New.

Zechariah tells us, 'They shall look upon Me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born;' and Paul speaks of a time when the veil that is upon their hearts shall be taken away, and it shall turn to the Lord.
"Let me read you the first five verses of the sixty-second chapter of Isaiah--they are so beautiful.
"'For Zion's sake will I not hold My peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
"'And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory; and thou shalt be called by a new name which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
"'Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
"'Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighted in thee, and thy land shall be married.
"'For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.'" Mr.and Mrs.Dinsmore sat together not many paces distant, each with a book; but hers was half closed while she gazed out over the sea.
"I am charmed with the quiet of this place," she remarked presently; "never a scream of a locomotive to break it, no pavements to echo to the footsteps of the passer-by, no sound of factory or mill, or rumble of wheels, scarcely anything to be heard, even on week-days, but the thunder of the surf and occasionally a human voice." "Except the blast of Captain Baxter's tin horn announcing his arrival with the mail, or warning you that he will be off for Nantucket in precisely five minutes, so that if you have letters or errands for him you must make all haste to hand them over," Mr.Dinsmore said, with a smile.
"Ah, yes," she assented; "but with all that, is it not the quietest place you ever were in ?" "I think it is; there is a delightful Sabbath stillness to-day.

I cannot say that I should desire to pass my life here, but a sojourn of some weeks is a very pleasant and restful variety." "I find it so," said his wife, "and feel a strong inclination to be down here, close by the waves, almost all the time.


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