St. John's rector dies'in Toronto A memorial mass will be celebrated this Saturday morning at 9:15 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in honor of the Rev. Father Leo Austin who served as rector of the Whitby Parish from 1956 to 1975. Father Austin passed away last Friday after a long illness. He was buried Monday at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church, Toronto. Austin was born in Toronto and was or- dained there in 1939. Austin was appointed rector of St. John in Sep- tember, 1956 and his fir- st responsibility was to build a new church to replace the old one that stood at the corner of Palace and John Sts. His building fund campaign raised over $100,000 - $20,000 more than was expected. He officially opened the present church on Christmas Day, 1958 with a Midnight Mass. Austin was also in- strumental in choosing the design of St. John's Church which was one of the first buildings in Canada to have a hyperbolic paraboloid style roof. r' By THE REV. DR. RONALD E. BAXTER Pastor Faith Baptist Church Many important questions face 20th century man. Among these are the concerns of vocation, marriage, investment, home, business and society. However, none is more important than that asked over 1,900 years ago by a prison guard. This question is as relavent today as it will be tomorrow, if God gives you that much time to ask it. You will discover it in Acts 16:32, "What must I do to be saved?" This is the question that lies heavily upon the hearts of mortals bound for immortality. It is in truth: - THE BIG QUESTION Think with me about it, for it is popular! Every individual that has ever lived, or will ever live has asked it. None are excluded, the agnostic, the in- fidel, the blasphemer, the religious and the irreligious, they all face this question. "What" in the face of eternity is common to man. Even the athiest - so called - faces it. The Bible says, "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" (Psalm 14:1). In other words he rejects God with his heart, not his head, with an involvement of his emotions, not his intellect. His intelligence has better sense than to deny a Designer to this Univer- se, yet his emotions are set against God! This question is so popular that everyone faces it. Again it is pressing. "Must" simply indicates the tremendous pressure upon the human soul that longs to be right with its Maker. There is an urgency about it that makes us face it. The Bible gives many warnings concerning this urgency. "He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy" (Proverbs 29:1). "Boast not thyself of tomorrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth" (Proverbs 27:1). "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation" (II Cor. 6:2). "Today if you hear (God's) Former WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1984, PAGE 13 The Church Speaks Sponsored by the WIIITBY MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION voice, harden not your hearts" (Heb. 3:7). This is a pressing question. Then it is personal. "What must I", singles us out until we stand alone before God. Your family, chur- ch, neighbours or friends cannot accompany you here. In this you stand alone!1 There have been "mass conversions" at large evangelistic crusades around the world, but every single person had to come as an individual. God is interested in you personally, and you must answer His call personally. You must personally receive Him into your life as your personal Saviour. This is a particular question too. "What must I do", is being extremely precise. The person who asks it wants the answer to be specific. He wants to get down to "brass tacks," instead of beating around the bush. Yet this very part of the question has caused more problems for people than any other. In the gospel it is set down plainly that you can do nothing to gain salvation, except to receive it as a free gift. Paul wrote to Titus and said it is "not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy he saved us..." (Titus 3:5). God had completed all necessary for your salvation when Jesus cried triumphantly -upon the cross, "It is finished." The person who asks, "What must I do", in connection with salvation is just 2,000 years too late. Christ has done it ail, and salvation's work is complete. Al we can do is accept it. The question is also positive. "What must I do to be saved", shows the questioner is positive about his condition. He recognizes that he needs to be saved.. No one had to prove to the jailor that he was a sinner, for he knew it. The one who asks this question is the one who is positive that he is a sinner (Romans 3:23) who needs to be saved. Positive also is the thought that he can be saved. That's why the question is asked. It is a positive fact that the sinner who turns to God for salvation will receive it. Our authority for this is Christ Himself, who said, "Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out" (John 6:37). The church, his family, or friends may cast the sinner out, but not the Saviour. Positively, the sinner who comes repentingly to God, to receive Christ as his personal Saviour, will be saved! But so far we have spoken only about the question, and, though it is common to all men, yet it does not give us the answer. So we think now of: ITS SIMPLE ANSWER It comes without a moment's hesitation, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and though shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31). There is a simplicity about it that makes the answer as direct as the question. Now notice he did not answer, "be baptized". Paul did not believe baptism saves, though he taught people should be baptized! 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That would not save, as far as Paul was concerned, though he believed people ought to become a part of a local Bible believing church! It was Solomon who obser- ved, "I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy - this also is vanity" (Eccl. 8:10). You can be buried as a wicked man and go to hell, after attending church all your life. No! Paul said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved". "Believe - and be saved", it's as simple as that. Believe Jesus Christ's sub- stitutionary death was enough to atone for your sin - past, present and future. Believe that He paid the death penalty (Romans 6:23) for your sin and that you by accepting that can go free, a saved man. Do you believe? You don't if you are adding any works at all toward a payment of your sin. You can do no penance, no righteousness, no penalty that will add to Christ's work. He has done everything. 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