Year: 1878

may be literal. You say, "I
won't believe it; ! won't be-


lieve it," Then, be consistent
and throw vour Bible into
the Feast River. Keeping
both your Bible and your un-
belief you stultify yourself
beyond all possibility of 9th
er qualification.


The next thing | have to
do is to group all those pass


ages which show the jndigna-
ton OF God against sin and
the sinner, and hence the pos
sibility Of such a place as I
have sp"ken Of. Out of a hun
drcd sermons, ninety eight
are on the love and mercy of
God, and only two on the in
dignation of God. The Bi-
bic more frequently speaks of
the wrath of God than of His
love, and yet we go on prea>
ching Il one sided God with
a character which we wonld
despize in ourselves. Some
seem to think they can go OH
defying God, and striking
Him in the face, and He will
smile on them through all
eternity. Are you not persua
ded by the passages which
show the Lords Indignation?
It not, then [ shall have to
leave you to be persuaded by
your own experience, amid
the torments of the damned,
when the truths of Gods pun
ishment shall be burned upon
you. | have nothing to do
with objections to- day. Isim
ply state that God ffty-six
times in the plainest, most
unmistakabl ), ,,stupendnus and
overwhelming way declares
that there is a hell. 1t is bur
ming now, it has been burn-
ing very long. 1t is become
iiercer by the victims that
have been dropped into it.
There is a probability that
there are some in this house
to- day who will spend eterni
ty in that lost world. Moth
ing but the hand of an out
ragged, deticd, insuited, long
suffering, indignant and om>
nipotent God keeps this whole
audience this moment from
sliding like an avalanche in
to it. But [ want to tell you
that there is no more need
that you go to that world
than, that vou leap into the
yeysers of California. Tell
the people, gentlemen of rhe
press, that there is no reason
that any man should go there
and if he does he is the sui
eide Of his immortal soul. [
turn to the same old book,
and | find that the Lord has
made it possible for us all to
be saved. He not only told
us that there was a hell, but
but He decended into it, and
coming forth cried ont 10 all
the ages, II have paid the
price for all those who will
make me their substitute and
will trust in me-" When Il
man has a chance between
heaven and hell, to escape
the one and win the other,
and refuses to do so, | ask,
Does he not deserve to be
lost? 1t is not, my friends, IA
controversy between you and
me, but between you and God.
You may shuttle this subject
off yonr attention, but that
does not change the fact that
your impenitent course is as
certainly leading you to that
lost world as that Fulton
street leads to Fulton terry.
You are on the road to hell;
turn around and start on the
road to heaven.


A young man bought a
couple of telephones and a
coil of copper wire last week,
and in the evening he went
around to a house where a
girl lives, and whispered soft
ly until one of the upper win
dows was opened, as he expec
ted it would be. Then he
threw one of the telephones
up into the window,and whis
pered in theother instrument:
"Are you there, darling ?"-
Sharp and clear came back
the answer; Eyes, / am here,
and il you will wait till l get
my boots on, you'll think you