The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-02-15

this good man calls across to you
and says Come and work for me.
I will uoe you right and pay you
we'll" You think Il over and decide
To go and that night you sleep IN
the new home. The next morning.
In obedience to orders from your
new employer, you hitch up the team
and begin TO pillow his fields. One Of
your old friends drives past and
calls out to you a cherry good morn
Ing. A few miles down the road he
meets another of your friends and
they stop to talk. Finally the second
friend says, II understand 80 and so
mentioning your name) has quit old
stingy and gone to work for MIR.
Goodman. but I do not believe II.
He has been with the old rascal too
long. | do not believe a word OF II.
He cannot quit him." well" an
swers your first friend, II guess you
will have to believe IL for saw him
Just now out blowing with Mr.. Good
mans team and MIR. Goodman's pillow
en- Mr.. Goodman's farm IL is a fact
all right"
Now you are blowing in your
new employers field. 80 witnessing
TO all your friends that you have quit
the service Of your old employer and
entered that of the new. Just so
baptism is witness to the world that
you have quit the service OF Satan
whose wages are the wages OF death.
and have entered, with all your heart
and soul and life and determination.
the service OF Jesus Christ who has
given you eternal life and whose
wages are peace and happiness here
and glory hereafter. So you see bap-
tism is necessary for 1t proves your
sincerity of purpose to serve Christ
to the end and without sincerity of
purpose there is no salvation.
And he that Believeth not shall
be Damned
II might just as well read is
damned for II one persists In unbelief
lac surely will be. for God says. Gle
that obeyeth not the Son shall not
see life. butthc wrath OF God abideth
on him.
To illustrate let me tell you
ufn % xtfln
in log house In the great pine for
csts of northern California. lie is a
prospector digging in the mountain
side back Of his hut day after day
for gold. One morning forest ran
ger rides up and says, Better get
out of this valley. partner. Chief says
the forest is on fire and has sent me
to warn you" Well, that is very
kind. but | do not believe there Is
any danger. We have had brush fires
before. do not believe need
to worry" well, do as you please.
IL is for you to decide. but my chief
sent me to warn you and | have done
NY duty. Good day. sir" And he
rides away. The prospector goes in
to his tunnel and digs all day. At
night he comes out. lie can smell
smoke and there is red light in
the sky way up the valley. but still
lac does not believe there is any dan
ger so goes to bed and sleeps until
toward morning when he is suddenly
awakened by what sounds like an
oncoming tornado. He leaps from
his bunk. The room is Illuminated
ly rcd glare. Looking through a
back window he is Mortified TO see
the tall pines wrapped in pillows of I
flame that come rolling on in a
great red roaring mass OF fire. |
Rushing from the house he goes rae
ing through the woods towards SAT- /
ETY., but the flames outrun him. The I
leaves begin To smoke beneath his /
feet and bursts into flame. The air /
is full OF cinders. his clothing is on /
fire in a dozen places. Suddenly he I
rise tho mad flames sweep past and |
all is over. Now. what killed that
man? Someone says the fire. No. ]
killed him. He refused 10 I
believe the warning in time to cs-
cape. He waited too long and perish
ed. Just 80 "Hc that belicveth not
shall be damned" II you go on in
sin, II you reject Christ, If you post
pone becoming a Christian. you, my
sinner friend. will wake up when II
is too late and find yourself in hell,
lost forever. "He that believeth not
shall be damned"
When Dwight l.. Moody was as
sistant In ono of the hospitals dur
Ing the Civil War a soldier WAS