"Yes, yes, you can explain all you wish, young man, but you cannot
get around those other texts I quoted. 'He that saith he liveth and
sinneth not is a liar and the truth is not in him.' That's Bible, I
tell you," said Peter with vigor.

"Where is that in the Bible?" demanded Robert.

"It is there somewhere. I will find it soon," said Peter as he started
thumbing his Bible. The congregation waited in expectancy.

"I will give you five dollars if you will find that in the Bible,"
said Robert.

"Oh, you don't think it is in the Bible? I will get it. Maybe I cannot
find it now but it is there, and I will find it," said Peter. "But
what about Solomon's sayings, 'There is no man that sinneth not'?"

"Solomon lived a thousand years before Christ, Mr. Newby, and do you
not think that Christ did something for us that the law could not do?
'He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon
better promises,' says Paul, in Heb. 8:6. It was probably true that,
in Solomon's day, no one lived free from committing sin, but since
Christ came to redeem us from sin, we can be saved. Of course, anyone
can sin, and there is danger of sinning, but if we live close to
Jesus, He is able to keep us from falling, as Jude. 24, 25 says,"
replied Robert, as he sat down again.

Peter Newby closed the debate by saying: "Next week we shall study the
sixth chapter of Romans. The young man who spoke tonight seems to know