Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-22
KNOWS FOURTEEN
ROADS TO HE'LL
SPEAKER POINTS OUT MANY
BROAD WAYS
Finds Only One Path to Heaven, whiIe
Highways in the Other Direction
Are ZOO Numerous to
Count

Fourteen Ways to He'll" was the
subject of William Newell of Chicago
at the First M. E. church yesterday
afternoon. He said:
There are more than fourteen ways
to hell. Jesus Christ said, Broad is the
way that leadeth nuto death, and many
there be that take Il, and narrow is
the way that leadeth unto life, and few
there be that find it. And he told the
truth, for he always told the truth.
"In the last analysis there is one
way to heaven, personal faith In Christ,
the risen Savior, and one way to hell,
unbelief, which is the refusal of the
will to commit the soul to Christ.
THE fourteen ways that / speak of
today are probably the most common
of the paths which lead into the final
broad road and wide gate to eternal
perdition. Test this carefully, as We
travel through them to find if you
may not, after all, be upon one of
them.
The First Way
1.-THE first way to hell which / shall
mention is infidelity. / do not mean
skepticism, which may be a state of
honest uncertainty in the search after
truth, but l speak of infidelity as that
word means. BY an infidel / mean one
who positively refuses the light of God
and denies Gods revelation and rejects
Gods control 1 scarcely need to speak
of this way to hell. Everybody knows
1t is one of the chief ways. Throw
the Bible away, and what have you
got? Tom Paine could be heard for
a mile across the fields when he was
dying, yelling with anguish; at one
moment cursing God and Jesus Christ,
and the next moment piteously scream
ing for mercy. He dies in the rawlings
of blasphemy He is a sample infidel.
Sir Francis Newport, the English in
fidel, the head of an infidel club said
to those gathered around his dying
bed: You need not tell me there Is
no God, l know now there is one, and
that 1 am in his angry presence. You
need not tell me there is no hell, for I
already feel my soul slipping into it's
fires. Tigers! Wretches! Cease your
idle talk about there being hope for
me. l know l am lost and lost for
ever!' The funeral of Robert G. In
gersoll was so black with gloom that
his friends desired to have nothing said
about it.
The Second Way
"The second way to hell is apostasy;
that is, turning back after one has pro-
fessed Christian profession. In Luke,
18, our Lord speaks Of those who be
lieve for a while, and in time of
temptation when tribulation and per-
secution arise because of the word,
stumble and fall away (Cf. Mark, 4,
and Heb, g. There are those that have
tasted eternal life and have refused to
drink of that blessed water that Jesus
gives. They taste everything, but re-
ject everything finally. Talk as you
please about your theological belief,
we know as a practical fact, and as
revelation of Scripture, that many turn
back who start out toward heaven and
fall away and are lost forever. This
is an awful, perhaps the most awful
of all damnation, unless it be that of
the hypocrite, to know the way of
Righteousness and then turn back
G. Pet p. Some of the most bitter enc
mics of Christianity were once pro-
Tossing Christians, such men as Julian
the Apostate, the Roman emperor,
who embraced and afterward denied
Christianity, and started out to exter-
inmate it from the Roman empire
When, at last, he fell in battle, he
took in his hand clot of his own
blood and hurled it, in utter hatred
and yet despair, toward heaven, and
cried, Thou hast conquered o NaZa-
reneu 1 saw a man in Bellevue hos
pital, New York city, who would jump
and flee in terror when the name Of
Jesus Christ was mentioned. l went
after him to plead with him. When
l tried to point to Christ, he said: I
knew him once; don't talk to me of
him. 1 turned back into the worst
kind of sin and l am lost forever, and
1 know it.. Then he said, Look here;'
and he showed me his leg, from his
foot up, a mass of putrid flesh. He
sf.id, L am rotting away. I am lost
Yet he was once protesting Christian.
The Third Way
"The third way to hell is indiffer-
ence. Many of you today belong to
that class. You say, We are not in
fldels You say, We are not apostates,
for we never started in the Christian
life.' No, you have not. You are in
different, careless. But 1 wish I could
tell you how black your indifference
looks in the sight of heaven. Yonder
is the bleeding Lamb of God, dying for
your sin, but you are Indifferent. Yon-
Ger is the risen Christ at Gods right
hand, loving your soul, longing to save
you, but you are Indifferent. Yonder
are the warnings of the past; the flood
in Noah's days, when God judged this
earth and wiped the human race out,
except one family, and you are in
different.
"Yonder is the destruction of sodom
and Gomorrah, when God himself
rained birthstone and fire out of heaven
upon sinners who persisted in sin, but
you are Indifferent. Yonder, north in
your own state, God Almighty shook
down the proudest city in the west,
and people trembled for a few days,
but you are Indifferent. Even though
an earthquake has just girdled the
globe and hundreds lie dead in Mexico,
the land just next to you, you are in
different. Yonder just now, are the
Philippines, just burning, and you are
Indifferent.
"Yes, but here your next door neigh
Dor has just been killed by a car and
ushered into eternity. 1t may be your
turn next, but you are Indifferent. Here
are the warnings OF God that come in
Judgment, assurance that the day has
been appointed. (Acts 17:31.) God
hath appointed a day wherein he will
judge the world Every man shall give
an account of himself. They shall be
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