The Hawaiian gazette., 1878-12-04
WEDNESDAY. DEC. 4. ISIS.
a Sermon ON Hell.
81 Kxv. c. H. sprEGgoN.

But the ehnars1 Sf tie ksSds shall BE cast 90. isso
Ssssr eAkssss tsss ssA ss ~sssisS and SuAshiHs q
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T6is 1ext IS beart-breaking ore. Here is
6reary task 10 the soul Ot the preacher, because
there are gloomy words 10 this verse. But What /
is written 10 the Bible must Dc preached, whether
il be gloomy or cheerful There are some min
isters who never mention anything about bell. 1
| have heard OF i minister who once said 10 his 1
congregation. III you DO no, love the Lord |
Jesus Christ you vii be sent 10 tha, place which |
il is rot polite 10 uention.7 He ought not 10 |
have been allowed 10 preach again, am sure. If
be cold not use plain words
II saw that house 90 IRE over there, do you
thiuk | would stand aud say. Il believe the op-
Grafton Of combustion Is proceeding yo0der!N
No, would call out Fire IRE = and then
everybody would know wha, meant. So, is the
Bible saws, The children Of the Kingdom shall
be cas-, out into outer dsrkpess' am l 10 stand
here and Uinee the matter at all : God forbid
We must speak the truth as il is written.
l. This Is terrible truth for 1t says The
children OF the kingdom shall be east outr'
No~ who are those ehildTenl l will tell you
The children Of the Kingdom are professors OF
religion who have the eXterusls Of piety, but who
possess nothing Of the Intervals Of it-peope
whom you will see Sith their Bibles aud hymn
books marching of to chspel relgiously as
possi be, or gOiog TO church as GeyOutly aud de-
uUrely IS they eau. locking as sOmore and seri-
Gus as parish beadles. and faueying that they are
quite sure 70 be saved though their heart is not
10 the uatter-uotbiog but their bodies. These
are the persons who sre the children OF the
Kingdom It is. indeed. quite right for them 10
attend place Of worship. But if they have no
grace. 10 life. DO Christ. and remain unchanged.
and uuiufuenced BY the means OF grace, they
shall De cast into outer darkness.
Agaiu, these people are the children Of pious
fathers and mothers There Is scarcely anything
touches q mans heart ike tslkiug about his
mother. have heard Of s swearing sailor whom
nobody could mansge. not even the police. who
was always making some disturbances wherever
be went. 0uee be went into place Of worship,
and no one could keep him still bat gentle
man went up and said to him, Jack, you had
mother once" With that the tears ran down
bis cheeks. He said. "Ah, bless you, sir, had;
and l brought her grey bars with sorrow to the
grave. aud pretty fellow am TO be here to-
nightt" He then sat down, quite sobered and
subdGed BY the very mention of his mother.
All. and there sre some Of you children OF the
| kingdom" who can remember your mothers.
| Your mother took you on her knee and taught
you early TO pray your father tutored you 10 all
| ways OF goodness. And yet you are here to-
/ night without grace in your heart-without hope
/ Of heaven. You are going downWaEds towards
[ hell as fast as your feet can carry you. There
are some Of you who have broken your poor
/ mothers hearts
/ Oh, If | could tell you what she has suffered
for you when you have at night been INDUCING
1 in your sin. Do you know what your guilt will
/ be, We children Of the kingdom" if We perish
after piOus mothers prayers and tears have
fallen upon your l can conceive of no one en-
teriug hell with worse grace than the man Who
goes there with drops of bis mothers tears on
his head. and with his fathers prayers following
HIN at bis heels. Some of you will inevitably
endure this doom some of you young men and
women shall wake up one day and find yourselves
10 utter darkness, while your parents shall be up
there IL heaven looking down upon you with
uubraiding eyes, seeming to say, What after
sll We did for you, all We said, are ye come 10
this p
Children of the kingdom" DO not think that q
| pious mother can save you. Do not think because
| your father was q member Of such and such 4
church that bis goiliaess viii save you. | can
suppose some one standing at heavens gate aud
/ demanding. Let NE 10 : let me in r hat for I?
Because ny mother L il there Your mothers
salsatioa or condemnation will not determine
yours. If she was holy. she was holy for herself
if she was evil, she Eas evil for herself But
NJ grandfather prayed for me-" That does not
decide your destiny Did you pray for yourself p
| No, did nOt.' Then grandfaLhers' prayers and
grandmothers prayers, snd fathers aud mothers
! prayers may De piled 90 top Of one another till
they reach to the stars, but they never can of
| themselves necessarily make ladder for you to
| 90 to heaven BY. You must seek God yourself,
and be found Of Christ. You must have Vita
experience Of godIiness in your heart or else you
are lost, even though all your friends we're in
! heaven.
THAT WAS A DREADFUL DREAM
which pious mother once had, and told to her
children. She thought the judgment day was
come. The great books we're opened. They all
stood before God And Jesus Christ SAID,
Separate the chat from the wheat pu; the
goats on the left hand, aud the sheep on the
right The mother dreamed that she and her
children we're standing Just IN the middle Of the
great assembly. And the angel came and said.
Il must take the mother; she is sheep she
must 90 to the right hand. The children are
goats they must 90 on the left" She thought
IS she vent her children claiched her and said,
Mother. can We part Must We be separated p
She then pat her arms around them, and seemed
to say. my children, would. if possible, take
you with me-"
But 10 moment the angel touched her her
cheeks we're dried, and, nos, overcoming natural
affection, being rendered supernatural aud sub
| lime, resigned 10 Gods viii, she said my chill
dFeu. taught yoa we'll trained you up, aud
you f0rsook the ways Of God, aud no~ all have
10 say Il, 4 ueu to your condemnation" There
upo1 they we're suatched away and she saw them
in perpetual torment while she was II heaven.
As. children Of the kIugdou'-she peniieut
reprobates viii enter heaven, any Of them; Goa
irite pqbicsns and sinners vii get there repent
ing drunklrds and sEesrers will be saved /; bot
many Of '-the children Of the kingdom" viii be
cast out.
Oh, to think that yoa who have been so well
trained should be lost, while many Of the worse
viii De saved Il viii be the hell of he'll for you
TO look Gp and see there poor jack" the drum
kard, lyigg 10 Abrzhaus bosom, while you WHO
have had . nie0s mother are cast into he'll simply
because yoa would not believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, Bot pat His Gospel from you, and lived
and died without it. That we're the very sting
Of al, to see ourselves cast away when the chief
Of sinners fad salvation
Nov list to me little Ehils-I viii not de-
tain 700 Ioug-Ehilst | undertake the dolefal
task Of tsiliHg yoa what il 10 become Of these
children Of the kingdom Jesus Christ says
they are 70 be cast into outer darkness where
there i weeping aud CRASHING OF teeth
IL Notice they are 10 De cast out They ara
not said TO 90 but when they come 70 heavens
gate they are cast out As soou a. hypocritss
arrive az the gates Of hsaEsu, Justice Will say
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