It is absurd to think that anything in us could have the least influence upon our election. Some say that God did foresee that such persons would believe, and therefore did choose them; so they would make the business of salvation to depend upon something in us. Whereas God does not choose us FOR faith, but TO faith. “He hath chosen us, that we should be holy,” (Ephesians 1:4), not because we would be holy, but that we might be holy. We are elected to holiness, not for it.
Thomas Watson

Amzi Clarence Dixon

Amzi Clarence Dixon

Amzi Clarence Dixon
1854-1925
American pastor and author. Born June 6, 1854, A.C. Dixon was reared in North Carolina, attended Wake Forest College (class of 1875) and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and was ordained in 1876. He held three successive pastorates in North Carolina, then pastorates in Baltimore, Brooklyn, and Boston. He pastored Moody Memorial Church from 1906 to 1911, when he accepted a call to fill Spurgeon’s pulpit in the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. In 1922 he returned to Baltimore, where he ministered until his summons home June 14, 1925.

In addition to pastoring, Dixon wrote a number of encouraging and inspirational books on the life of faith, including The Bright Side of Life, The Bright Side of Death, The Young Convert’s Problems, and The Glories of the Cross.