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Christ Offered for Redemption Evangelist Gives His Views of Condemnation and Hell "What Difference Does it Make if Hell Fire is Literal or Whether it is Emblem to Convey Terrors of Future World?" He Asks Sunday Night Audience.

The Text "What shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God?" 1st Peter 4th chapter, 17th verse. No book ever came by luck or chance. Every book owes its existence to some being or beings, and within the range and scope of human intelligence there are only three things good, bad and God. All that originate in intellect, all which the intellect can comprehend, must iriginate from one of the three. This book could not possibly be the product of good men, for they do not attribute these beautiful and matchless and well-arranged sentences to them, as the Holy Ghost and the Bible are capable of no private interpretation. This book could not possibly be the product of evil, vicious, wicked, corrupt men for it pronounces the heaviest penalties against transgression. Like produces like, and if wicked, vicious men had written the Bible, they would pronounce no penalties against, transgression. This Is tjje book which is the headliflht of alt progress, and proportionately as men and women submit to Its teachings and live up to them, are lifted out of the quagmire of filth and your heart and body purified. So the only being to whom you or I or any intelligent being could attribute to the Bible is God. Here is a book that as far exceeds the combined efforts of man as the un exceeds the brilliancy and lifegiving power of these lights, which are but base imitators of its glory. Here is the book that tells me of my origin and my destiny. Here is the book without which I would not know of my origin or destiny except as I might glean it from the dim ' outlines of nature or reason, either or both of which, to me, would be unsatisfactory in the extreme. Most People Believe in God. Most people believe in God. Now and then you find a few that don't and they are fools if they jlon't for the Bible says, "The fool hath said in his heart there is no God." Most people believe in a God that will reward the right and punish the wrong. That being true, what attl-. tude ought you to assume toward my: teachings when I aunounce as my! text a verse from the word of God i "What shall the end be of them that! obey not the Gospel of God?" I The condition of Israel was desperate. Peter told them if they con- i 3 tinued to live as they were, it would j justly merit wrath of God. That I seems not to have affected them,! and I can hear him crying out in thej words of Jeremiah "What will you . do in the swelling of the Jordan?": snd the word3 of Solomon. "The way of the trangressor is hard." Then I can hear him crying out in the words of my text, "What shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God?" There were those that did obey; he knew their end; and there were those that did not, and he tried to enlighten them. A man said to me once, "I can't be a Christian." That makes a hard case against God. You say can't and God commands every man to repent, and He told you He would damn you if you didn't. If God made me and told me He would damn me if I didn't do His will, and it was impossible for me to do His will, then God would be a wretch and a demon; and when you say you can't me a Christian, then you are charging God with ask ing you to do something that can't be! done. Suppose I were on top of a high building and I saw my children in the street below and I shouted, "Fly up to me." They would shout back, "We can't." Suppose I'd say, "You can, and if you- don't, I'll whip you to death." God Does Not Ask Unreasonable. 1? I did that, I would be just as unreasonable as God would be to ask his creatures to do something that He knew when He asked, they couldn't do. And if you are not decent enough to want to be a Christian, just tell God you are not man enough to be a Christian, that you don't want to be a Christian. Some years ago a man was touring the Alps. He came to a great gorge, three thousand feet deep, and he stopped and said to the Alpine guiae it was skirted bv a narrow

ledg. of rocl taJV two hands ": 1 would bec

ledg. of rock no wider than vour I never could cross that: become dizzy and I would fall to my death." And the Alpine guide laughed him to scornp. He tLrew away his Alpine stock, shut his eyes, and with only his feet to feel with , he threaded his way across the yawning abyss to the other side, and the dog, born and reared in the mountains, winced and turned back. What is your life a hand's breadth yes, a hair's breadth yes, one single heart beat between every man and woman here tonight and eternity just a heartbeat and heaven or hell for you, according as you have accepted or you have refused Jesus Christ a3 your Savior. Now, I have never met a man or a woman in my life that objected to religion, that could not classify under one or two headings. First, men end women who, because of an utter disregard of God's claims upon their lives have become by and through that disregarded, blase, degenerate, the poltroons and marplots of God's earth, and have thu3 thrown them- j selves away beyond tb,e pale of God's mercy or any hope of salvation. Or, second, men and women with splendid, noble and magnificent abilities, which they have allowed to become absorbed in other matters and they do not give to the subject of religion ro much as passing attention. And yet, they have the audacity to

lv claim for themselves an intellectual -Jf superiority to those who believe the

Bible, which they sneeringly term, "that superstition." Issues Challenge To All. Listen, I will challenge you, if you

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End of Them will demand, of yourself the same honest, candid inquiry you demand of yourself iu other matters, that you do in science, you will know that God is God, and Jesus Christ i3 the Son of God. But you won't do that. You think it is weak-minded ness for a man or woman to believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God. "What shall the end be to them that obey not the gospel of God?" What is the gospel that people ought to obey it? Well, it Is the good news of salvation through faith in Jesus. "Oh," says a man, "do you call the knowledge of that book that I have lost on the road to hell, good news?" No, sir, that in Itself is not good news no but if it is a fact, the sooner you find if it is a fact, the sooner you find it out the better off you will be. You can call It gospel law, prophecy, good news or anything if it is a fact, the sooner you find out you are lost, the better for you. Suppose you were lost in a swamp wandering about and not knowing of your lost condition, and a man should come up to you, and say "You are lost." That wouldn't meet your condition, t . But supposing that man should say, "You are lost, and I am a guide and I will lead you out of your lost condition back to your home." That would meet your condition, wouldn't it? Not only did the man tell you that you were lost, but he told you how to get out. God Provides Plan of Salvation. God never told mankind that they were lost, headed for hell, and then left you to grope your way out yourseir. But God says: "I have sent a guide, my only begotten Son, "who will tell you how to get out of your lost condition. That is good news for God to tell a man, mat he is lost and then send a guide to lead him out and bring him back home and back to peace and back to joy. Wasn't it good news for Noah to know that when the flood came he would be saved in the ark? Wasn't it good news for Rahab to know that she and her household would - be saved when Jericho fell, by hanging a scarlet line out of a window? Wasn't it good news for the Israelites to know that they would be saved? When they were bitten by the serpent in the wilderness all they had to do was to look at the brazen serpent that Moses had raised up, and be saved, "Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins." Never was there such good news published to the old world, Suppose a man owes von S5.000 and has nothing tn nnv flnrl vrvii cfimilfl seize upon him and put him in prison and while in that condition you would take pity upon him and find somebody that would pay the debt that he might go free, and suppose your son would step forward and pay the price and allow you to open the prison doors and allow him to come free. We Are Mortgaged To God. You and I, my friends, were mortgaged to God, and the mortgage was due, and we had nothing with which to pay, and inflexible justice seized upon us and put us in the prison of condemnation. While in that attitude, Jesus Christ, stepped forward and said: "Father, I will go down and pay their debts." He became bone of our bone. They nailed Him on the cross. When He shed His blood, His shed blood made atonement for our sins. When I accept Jesus Christ as my Saviour, God puts it down to my credit as though I had kept the law, and lets me escape on the condition of my acceptance of Jesus as my substitute. He becomes my security and by bondsman, hence the law has no claim upon man or woman that accepts Jesus Christ as his Saviour. Suppose a man was down in a pit and you would come down to him and say: "Come out of the pit; wash yourself. That wouldn't meet the man's condition. He would say to you, "I can't." But suppose you come with a ladder and shove that down in front of him, and tell him to climb out of the pit, then give him food to eat and water to wash with that would meet the man's condition. All right, God comes to the sinner and tells you how to got out of your lost condition; He doesn't leave you there. Telegram Brings Glad Tidings. Years ago when the North German Lloyd steamer, the Elbe, went down in the North Sea, only 19 people wer saved. Among the number was a county commissioner who lived in Cleveland, O. When he reached the little English town, he sent a cablegram to his wife, in which he said, "The Elbe is lost, but I am saved." She crumpled the telegram and ran out the door, across the lawn and down the street, waving it above her head shrieking to her neighbors, "He is sa. " - s saved." The cablegram ... framed and hangs upon the wall of their beautiful Euclid avenue home. Oh, it was good news to her that her husband was saved. The gospel is glad tidings of salvation, offered full, free and eternal to all mankind who will accept Jesus Christ as his or her personal Saviour. What is the gospel and what is it to ooey u ; what was it for Noah to obe- Dui,d tne arK and Set in? What vas u fo.r Rahab to obey and hang the scarlet line out of the window? What was it for the Israelites to obey and look at the brazen serpent on the pole? All that was believing God's message, doing what God told them to do; trusting in the finished work of Jesus Christ, that is what it means to you and to me today. And God gave him a work to do, and He said: "I have finished the work Thou gavest Me to do." when He hung on the cross with the nails in His hands and His feet What does it mean to trust in God? I go to Paris and I see a man discouraged from dissipation. He mixes the

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poison in the cun. lifts it tn hia Una. but he does not drink the poison. Three times he loaded the pistol, put the muzzle against his temple, but he didn't pull the trigger. Seven times he walked to the banks of the Seine and looked Into the ark rolling river, but he didn't plunge In. He went where he heard the gospel of Jesus Christ, well on his knees and cried for forgiveness, and William Cowper writes: God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform, He plants His footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. There Is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immanuel's veins; And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains. " I go down the streets of New York. Years ago I met a man and accosted him. I said, "Hey Palmer, tell me, what have you found by trusting in the finished work of Jesus Christ?" My faith looks up to Thee, Thou Lamb of Calvary Savior Divine. I go to Wesley, walking along the shores of a lake while a storm was raging. The lightning flashed and the thunder rolled. The birds were driven in fright from the refuge in the boughs of the trees. As the lightning flashed, there flew into the lapel of his coat a little bird, to take refuge there. He held it tenderly and took it home, put It in a cage, kept it until morning and then carried the cage out in the yard, opened the door, and the little bird flew out and circled round and round and shot off with a song towards its mountain home. Wesley watched it until it became nebulous in the skies, and then he sat down and wrote: Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly. What does it bring to you by trusting in the finished work of Jesus Christ? Oh, I go to Bridgeport, Conn., and I go and rap at the door of the blind home, and say to Fanny J. Crosby, who went to glory some years ago, ninety-odd years old, sat in darkness, my friends, for nearly a century I say: "Oh, Miss Crosby, tell me, that I may tell the people, is it worth while to trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ? Tell me." Her old face lights up like a halo of glory; those sightless eyes flash, and she cries out: "Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine, Oh, What a Foretaste of Glory Divine" "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior" "Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross" "There Is a Precious Fountain" "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" "I Am Clinging Close To Thee" "Rescue the Perishing" "Once I Was Blind. Now I Can See" "The Light of a World Is Jesus." What is it? It isr to trust in the finished work of Jesus Christ. Napoleon's Horse Dashes Off Years ago Napoleon was riding in review before his troops, when the horse upon which he sat suddenly became unmanagable, and seizing the bit in his teeth, dashed off down the road, and the life of the great warrior was in danger, when a private, at the risk of his own life, leaped from the ranks, seized the runaway horse by the bridle and was dragged for nearly a hiinrlrorl va rrla Vnr i Hng horse. Finally he succeeded in stopping tne nor3e. He was severely injured and bruised, and as he lay on the ground Napoleon out of gratitude, rose in his stirrups and said to the man, "Thank you, captain." And the private looked up and said, "Captain of what, sir?" Napoleon saluted and said, "Captain of my life guards, sir." He crawled over where the life guards were in consultation with the officers. They ordered him back into the ranks. He began to issue orders to them. He said. "I am captain of the life guards." They ordered his arrest. Just then Napoleon rode by, and he said. "I am captain of the guards because he said so." And Napoleon aros and said, "Yes, captain of my life guards. Loose him, sirs, loose him!" Christian Because God Says So So I am a Christian because God says so, and that is the last word, and that is the supreme authority. What God says, no man can deny. There are three things incomprehensible to me. That Isn't exactly what I mean some fellows would go out here and say there are only three are a million, but three are preeminently incomprehensible to me. things I couldn't understand. There There are three that are incomprehensible to me above the multitudes. First, Is eternity. Away off yonder you think it will end, but it leads on and on. If I take one million and subtract 500,000 there is my answer; if I take a billion and subtract a million, there is my answer. I might take a decilllon or septllllon of years from eternity, and I wouldn't so much as disturb its original terms, until minds trained to deal with intricate problems go reeling back in their utter Inability to comprehend eternity. The other is space. When you go out tonight look up and you will see the moon, 240,000 miles from the earth, and it is one of our nearest neighbors. I could walk to the moon In seventeen years, walking 40 miles a day, but the moon is a nearby neighbor. You saw the sun today, how brilliantly it shone to tease ffowers and the vegetables to grow. It Is 92,500,000 miles away. If I should travel on an express train 50 miles per hour, it would take me 215 years to reach the sun that's at the rate of fifty miles per hour. The sun, too, is one of our nearest neighbors. In the early morning you will look up and see a star near the sun Mercury 91,000,000 miles away; travels around the sun once in 85 days, going at the speed of 110,000 miles per hour. Then comes the earth, the planet upon which we live. It travels around the sun .once In S65 days, or a speed of 68,000 miles per hour, and as you sit theie, as you stand yonder, ihis old earth upon which we live is swinging in her orbit at the rate of 68,000 miles per hour. She is whirling on her axis 19 miles per second, and by the pressure of gravity, we are held from falling into illimitable space." Then comes Mars 260,000,000 miles away; travels around the sun once in 627 days, or about two years, going at the speed of 49,000 miles per hour, in Its orbit. "Who knows but that its blush tonight, or its roseate hue, is simply the blush of its flowers; who knows but that tonight that planet is inhabited by a race unsullied by sin, untouched and undamned and unmarred and unecarred, my friends by its blight. That's old Mars. Then comes old Jupiter, champion of the skies, ashed and belted around

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with vapors of light. Jupiter is 480, A1 A AAA f . uuu.vuu miies away, it travels arounu the sun once In 12 years, going at a speed of 30,000 miles per hour. I need something faster than a cyclone going 100 miles an hour to get there in a lifetime If I could charter a Pujlman palace car and couple it to a ray of light traveling at the speed of 192,000 miles per second, I could go to Jupiter and get back for breakfast at 10:15 o'clock. But Jupiter is one of our nearest neighbors. Traveling at the rate of 60 miles an hour, it would take me 740 years to reach Jupiter. Oh, but as I said, Jupiter is a near neighbor. - Yonder is Saturn 885,000,000 miles away; travels around the sun once in 30 years, going at a speed of 21,000 miles per hour. Going at a speed' of 50 miles an hour, it would take you 1,470 years to reach that planet. And yonder I catch the faint glimmer of another stupendous world as she swings in her prodigious journey old Uranus 1,780,000,000 miles away; travels around the sun once in 88 years, go'ng at the speed of 250 miles per hour. As the distance of the planets Increases, their velocity in their orbits correspondingly decreases, and they slow up. Traveling at the rate of 60 miles an hour, it would take me 3,160 years to reach the planet. What Observatory Shows Him. I go down tomorrow morning and I jump on a limited train for Chicago, and I will change over to the Northwestern, and I will go out to Lake Geneva, Wis., and I climb into the Yerkes Observatory and I turn the most ponderous telescopes in the world to the skies. Away out on the frontier of the universe, on the very outer rim of the world, I catch the faint glimmer of Neptune 2,790,000,000 miles away, travels around the sun once in 164 years, going at the speed of 210 miles per hour. If I should step on deck abattleship and fire her forward 14-inch turret gun. and if that ball would travel 1,500 miles per minute, she would be 311 years getting over to Neptune. And that isn't all.. If I should travel 60 miles an hour, would be 5,005 years reaching the planet of Neptune. And yonder in Alpha Centuri. If I could attach my palace car to a ray of light and go at the speed of 198,000 miles per second, it would take me three years to reach that planet. And if I should charter an express train and travel at the rate of 30 miles pelhour, I would be just 80,000,000 years reaching that planet. Yonder is the Polar or the North Star; traveling at the rate of 192,000 miles a second. I would be 45 years reaching that planet. Traveling at the rate of 60 mile per hour, I would be just forty million years getting to the nearest fixed star. And if I would go down to the depot to buy a railroad ticket and pay three cents a mile, I would have to lay down $720,000,000 for railroad fare. "Oh, God, what is man, that thou are mindful of him?" I don't believe an infidel ever studied astronomy or looked, through a telescope. The fool hath said in his heart "There is no God." But he Is a fool. I am not an infidel, because I am not a fool. Then the third thing that is incomprehensible to me I can understand eternity in a degree; I can grasp space to a certain extent, but the third is the love of God to this old sin-cursed world and man's indifference to God's love. If you can get up and tell me why it is that a human being is indifferent to God's love, I'll quit. I can't understand it; I give up. In these days it is "Big man and little .God;" gigantic "I" and pigmy God. These are days when it is Ponderous man, infinitesimal God " What Earth's Population Is There are 1,400,000,000 people on the earth. You are one of that number, so am I. You don't amount to much. Neither do I. You and I are just one; we are units of 1,400,000.000 people that are on this earth. There are 400,000 worlds like the world in which we live. There are a million other suns as large as the sun of our solar system, and each sun holds in its power other worlds, such as the, world in which we live. Oh, if I should take 1,400,000, the number of people on the earth, and multiply it by 1,400,000,000, ray friends and then multiply that by ,000,000, then multiply that by several million more and then multiply that by infinity and that is God. That is the God you spurn, whose Son you damn you don't give a rap about. That is the God, sir. that you have been blaspheming and refusing to accept all these years. If I were to take the sun and cut it up into 1,400,000 pieces, each piece would be as big as the earth on which we live, and if I could take an auger and bore a hole in the top of the sun, 1 could bore a hole 1,400,000 times the size of the earth and there would still be room for more. And God made the sun That is the God you haven't' any use for. J Oh, if ever a man appears like a consummate idiot, it is when he has no use for God and the plan of salvation through Jesus Christ. If you should take 1,400,000 000 the number of people on the earth and subtract a hundred million from that and repeat that process a number of times, what would be left would be you that is you! "What shall the end be to them that obey not the Gospel of God?" Some Deny Suffering in Eternity. fh!ft0mne-Pe0?Ie are temPtel to deny that their sufferings in the next world, if they are lost, will be eternal fire Some scoff at the idea. Do you thik you can put ".he fire out because you sneer at the thought? Do you think your scoffs can frustrate God? Not at A1WJ?at doe matter to you whether the fire In hell is literal or whether it is the fittest emblem that God could employ to convey to our minds the terrors of the world to come? Fire is the limit of our comprehension. God is talking to us in language that we can understand, and fire is the' very apex of our hatred, and when we talk of It everybody shrinks to think about it. What difference does it make whether the fire in hell is literal or whether it is the fittest emblem that God could employ to convey to our minds the terrors of the future world? What difference does it make to you whether the gold on the streets of heaven is figuratively gold or really gold? Gold was the fittest emblem that God could use to convey to your minds the beauty of heaven. Gold is the very top notch of our comprehension of wealth and of beauty; hell fire is that of terror and punishment. It doesn't make any difference to me whether the gold on the streets of

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heaven is literally like that or not, or whether it Is the fittest emblem that God could employ to talk to me in language that I could understand I want to go to heaven whether the fire In hell is literal or not, or whether fire was the fittest emblem that God could employ to convey to my mind the terrors of hell. I don't want to go to hell, either. That's all there is to it. What difference does it make? It doesn't make a bit of difference. Hell Must Be Awful Place. Hell must be an awful place if GoH didn't want me to go there and if He gave Jesus Christ to keep me out of there; and you are a big fool if you want to live a life of rebellion and go to hell just to find out if the fire is literal or not. "What shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?" Now listen to me! I believe this I believe no human virtue has ever been able to propagate Itself from generation to generation, to redeem society and the individual from grav-i itating downward to. moral wreckage and to make righteousness and truth known everywhere, that is not built on a belief in a future life, no matter where you come from. "What shall the end be of them that obey the gospel of God?" What was the end of those that didn't obey and didn't get a place in the ark? They found a watery grave. What was the end of those that didn't put out a scarlet line like Rahab? They were all killed. What was the end of those that wouldn't look on the brazen serpent on the pole? They all died. "What shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?" Eternal damnation. How He Sized m Up Situation. . I said to a man one day in Chicago, "Don't you think that possibly there is a hell?" "Oh, yes," he said, "possibly there is a hell." "Well," I said, 'it's pretty good sense, then, to get ready for the maybe.'" You know when you build a building the law requires you to put a fire escape on it. Do you expect it to burn? No, sir. But it may burn; so you are ready for it. That is common sense, good business.. The law requires every ship to carry lifeboats and life preservers equal to her passenger capacity. Do they expect her to sink? No, but she may sink and they are prepared for the emergency There may be a hell. All right, I'm ready for it. Vhat about you? Next to my faith in God, that which would give me most comfort when I come .to die is to remember that I carried life insurance that would take care of my wife and children; the wolves could scrap and howl and they could give them the laugh for years to come, long after old dad had gone back to the dust of the earth. I dont believe that a man does the right, square thing by his wife or children unless he provides for them in a life insurance policy, so that he can shuffle off this mortal coil and have them put him in the ground and still know that his wife and children are provided for, and dont have to go out from home looking for washing the next day, manicuring their nails on a wash board. You owe it to them to make provision for them. Now, I don't get anything for that! But I am glad, however, of the chance to say it. I think it ought to be said. I think it is one of the best institutions on God's earth life insurance. I don't expect to die, but I may die, and on that account I carry policies on my life, my friends. Live a Life Of Harmony. Now, then, you say you can't believe there i3 a hell. You live a life in harmony with your unbelief very well. Then you die very well still believing there is no hell. All right. I believe there is a hell, and I .live a life in harmony with my belief, and I die, and I find out you are right there is no hell. But where have you got anything on me? You say you don't believe it; you live a life for money; you die; you find there' is a hell. I die; I find I have got you skinned, old scoundrel any way you look at it! So if there is no hell, I haven't lost anything by being decent and living a Christian life while I am here; and if there is, and I believe there is, and you don't, when I die I am saved, but when you die, where do you get off? You are a fool any way you look at it. A man is on a journey. The journey is well if it ends well. We are on a journey to eternity. What shall the end be? Let God answer it; don't you quarrel with me. "A lake of fire and a furnace of fire." "In hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment." "Eternal damnation." "The smoke of their torment ascended forever and ever." "Behold, now is the aceppted time." Will you say, "God, I had no light." Will you say, "Lord, I though: J was good enough." -Didn't I say all had sinned and come short of the glory of God? Didn't I command all men everywhere? That didn't exclude you "all men." Old Prospector Tells Story. An old mining prospector out in Colorado had hunted over the mountains for 25 years. A friend of mine met him. He said to him, "How do you measure the depth of an abyss?" "Oh," said the old, grizzled prospector, "I stand on .he edge and I take a stone in one hand, a stop watch In the other, and I hurl my stone and I start my watch, and then I listen, and when I hear the sound of the rock striking betow I stop my watch, compute the number of seconds she has been falling and the number of feet she will fall per second, with the increased ration, and I will find out how deep the abyss is." "Do you ever find an abyss you can't measure that way?" "Yes, many a time, sir, I stand on the verge of an abyss and I hurl nry rock and I start my watch and I stand and listen and listen and listen and no sound comes back of the rock striking below. I make up my mind it is fathomless." I stand on the verge of eternity, and I cry out, "Eternity! How long are thou?" and back comes the answer: "How long sometimes a day appears, - and weeks, how long are they? They move as if the months and years would never pass away. But months and years are passing by, and soon must all be gone. Day by day, as the moments fly Eternity come on; All these ifiust have an end; Eternity has none,

It will always have as long to run as when first begun." "What shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?" There are two ends to everything the apparent and the real. It is apparent that motion produces heat and that heat produces light That is apparent; I know that. And on and on and on it goes. I stand on the shore of a lake or river, and I hurl a stone out in the middle, or to the edge. The waves start. They will break upon the farthest short of that lake or river. That is apparent; we know that when that stone hits the water it stirs up vibrations and they make waves that travel to the farthest shore. Never Know Effect of Act. What about the real end? You perform an act. You think that is the end. Somebody saw you; they -will take it up and do the same thing, another and another. When you make some one a Christian, you will never know the effect of it until the judgment, then God will tell you how many were blessed by your act. "What shall the end be to them that obey the gospel of God?" Oh, what is the use of Uncle Sam erecting lighthouses and having fog horns, my friends, to blow and bellow, if the captains and the shipB' crews are going to sleep and allow the vessels to drift among the rocks? Oh, men and women, if I am to be lost at last, If I am to be shipwrecked, at last, I would rather go down to destruction without the warning ringing in my ears than I would to drift to destruction to the mocking cadence of an alarm I would not heed, but which if I had heeded would have

saved me. To go down to hell with the memory of the admonition ringing in my ears oh, God that would be the hardest kind of dying for me! To know that I needn't have been theTe but I am there and can't get out, because I wouldn't heed what has been said to me that would be the hardest death I can imagine for me. And so the flowers fade and the heart weakens; man grows old and dies. The world lies down in the sepulchre of the ages, but time writes no wrinkles upon the brow of Eternity. It is always as young as when it starts. - "What 6hall the end be to them that obey not the gospel of God?" It has been said by a certain man that Moses made mistakes. Moses may have made some mistakes, but he never made a mistake when he wrote these words: Our Rock Is Secure "Their rock Is not our rock, our enemies themselves being the judges." When Voltaire, the famous infidel of France, lay dying he said to his doctor, "How long can I live?" He said to him, "Six hours." Voltaire said, "I will give you all I have, if you will spare my life six months." Then the doctor said, "You can't live six hours." Voltaire said. "Then I'll go to hell and you will go with me." There was a shriek of agony and the life of the famous French infidel was no more. When Hobbs, the famous English infidel, lay dying, he said, "I am taking a leap into the night." When King Charles IX, who gave the order of the massacre of St. Bartholomew Day, when blood ran like water when King Charles lay dying, he said. "Oh, God, how will it end? Blood, blood, rivers of blood. I am lost." And with a shriek the life of King Charles IX was no more. When King Philip III of Spain lay dying, he said, "I wish to God I had never lived," then in a sober moment he said, "I would to God I had lived and reigned, but that I had lived and deigned and taught the people to fear God." With a shriek of agony his life went out. Years ago on the pretense of esteem and love they would bring the prisoner and show him a hole through the .prison floor. Through it could be seen the river of the lake of Geneva. They would say to the prisoner, "Don't say that I told you how to escape." And the prisoner would step with glee through the hole, not knowing that just underneath the surface was a sharp razor-like knife, and he would be cut to pieces and his mutilated body would drift out into the waters. Oh, infidelity has nothing, my friends, to offer you. absolutely nothing! The greatest the world can give you through it, will be crushed in the end. Wesley sad, when he lay dying, I shall be satisfied when I awaken in H"s "ikeness." Neander said, I am tired now and must go to sleep, good n'ght." Frances E. Willard said, "How beautiful to be with God." Florence E. FosteT said, "The hill tops are covered with angels, they beckon me homeward I bid you goodbye." When Moody lay dying he said, "Earth recedes, heaven opens. God Is calling me. Th's is to be my coronation day." And the life of the great apostle of God drifted out. my friends forever. Describes Frightful Wreck During the world's fair at Chicago a special train on the Grand Trunk drawn by two locomotives and having 17 ca:s attached, an excursion train, dashed around the curve at Battle Creek, Michigan, and' a freight train had been ordered to take the siding and let the special by. The brakeman, it is said, forgot to lock the switch; he left it open and that special drawn by two locomotives dashed around the curve, headed in on a side track and struck that freight train, loaded with iron. The cars telescoped as if made of papier mache and fire broke out. People rushed to render assistance. There was in the midst of the wreckage a woman who lived in New York. I have forgotten the town but her name was Van Dusen. She handed j her diamond earrings and purse to a gentleman standing nearby and said, "Send those to my husband," after; giving her address. The flames grew hot about her and she started to sing, "My Heavenly Home to Die no More." The men worked like demons to liberate her. She cried out. "Thank you, gentlemen, but don't endanger your lives. I am a Christian and I'll die like a Christian." Then they heard her sing "Even though it be a cross that raiseth me" above the shrieks of the dying and the crackling of the flames until her voice was hushed forever. "Behold the upright man. mark the perfect man. for the end of that man' is peace."

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RODEHEAVER SPECIAL" SPEAKER TO KIDDIES: FORTY LIVES PLEDGED Wayne county Sunday school convention Saturday afternoon made Homer Rodeheaver their own lecturer. Holding their sessions In the tabernacle, in place of the regular Sunday preaching, the convention listened tc Rodeheaver while he explained moral truths to the youngsters by means ol magical tricks. As an addition to the program, be fore Rodeheaver performed, Billj Sunday epoke to the children. "Yo'J have got to believe in Christ if yoi. are to make your mark in the world. he told them. A special chorus of nearly 609 chil dren's voices sang for the convention while solos were sung by Genevieve McKune, a tiny little mis. with an unusually sweet voice, and by Mis? Dorothy Dillman, of 203 North Eighteenth street, A boys chorus composed of Gerald Wright, Frank Delk. Carton Baird. Millard Worth. Melvin Horton, and Merl Lancaster also sang. Defines Bible Schools C. W. Brubaker. of Dayton, head of the Sunday school work in' Ohio, defined Sunday schools as of four klnda, Standpatters. Impetuous, Contentious, and Progresive. Rev. W. C. Sanders, of Green's Fork, offered prayer. What shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? And you are going to live on until the constellations of the heavens are snuffed out. You are going to live on until the rocks crumble into dust. You are going to live on until the mountain peaks are incinerated into ashes and God blows them to the four corners of infinitude by the breath of heaven. Thinks of Example of Governor. I used to live in Pennsylvania and one of the grandest erunples of gubernatorial piety that ev fsat in the mansion at Harrisburg was old Governor Pollock. You pull some money out of your pocket, and you will find" on the coins "In God We Trust." Governor Pollock of Pennsylvania put that or the money of the United States Governor Pollock of Pennsylvania, he was the man.. And I never pull a piece of money from my pocket and look at it that I don't think of Governor Pollock, and his face comes before me and I think of the wonderful example he was as a governor. While he was governor, a young fellow in a drunken brawl over some trifling, insignificant affair, shot a man. He was arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced to be executed, and the people all over the state, by tens of thousands, signed a petition. Among th committee that presented it to Governor Pollock was a personal friend of Governor Pollock. He listened to their pleadings. They read the names on the list, and they argued and said: "Governor, can't you commute the sentence to life imprisonment?" Governor Pollock said. "Gentlemen, it was against, the Commonwealth of the State of Pennsylvania and the dignity and the magesty of the law, and I can't commute the sentence." Then the ministers Catholic and Protestant signed a petition, and among the comittee that presented it to Governor Pollock, was his own pastor. He put his hands upon his shoulders, he begged, he even dropped on his knees and prayed that God would give Governor Pollock wisdon? to commute the sentence to life imprisonment. Governor Pollock listend to their pleadings, wiped the tears from his eyes, and said, "Gentleman, I can't do it; I can't do it.' Mother of Boy Arrives Then the boy's mother came. As a last resort she pleaded as only a mother can plead. Her eyes were bloodshot, her lips ashen, her face anemic, her hair disheveled, her clothes unkempt, her frame weak and tottering from loss of sleep and food and her ceaseless vigil and efforts to bring influence to bear that the Governor would . commute the sentence. She approached the governor. She put her arms about his neck. She cried, "Oh, governor, let me go on the scaffold; give me my boy; don't take my baby; governor, put me behind the bars, and I will stay there all my life if you will let him go; don't hang him." He took her arms from around his nec kand held her at arm's length. He looked into her face and the tears rolled down his cheeks like a river of water. He said to her, "Mother, I can't do it." She screamed and fell at his feet. They bore her out. He turned and said to his secretary, "John, if I can't pardon him or comute the sentence, there is one thing, thank God, I can do. I can tell him how to die." He went to the prison -where the boy was, and he asked to be alone. The death watch left. He sat down and talked and he prayed with him, end the young man prayed. The governor left the cell and the death watch returned. The young man said, "Who was that man that came in and talked with me?" The watch said, "Didn't vou know?" He said, "No." The watch said. "Great God, that was Governor Pollock." He stood a minute. He thrust his hands to his head. He pulled his hair cut by the handful. He grasped hold of the bars. He said. "My God, why didn't you tell me that v.as the governor and I would have thrown mv arms around him and I would havp driven my fingers into his flesh and I would have said to him. 'Governor, I will not let you go unless you pardon me. or give me my life and let me go behind the bars. " A few days later when he stood on the scaffold with the shroud on. thf noose about his neck and the black cap on. hand? and feet tied, the last words he said were, "My God! The governor there and " and he shot down through the trap; in 14 minutes the doctor said he was dead. You can't stand before God and say, "Jesus Christ was down there at the tabernaele and I didn't know it!" Behold a man greater than Governor Pollock i3 here Jesus Christ, the son of God, and he waits to be gracious to all that will accept of the salvation which he purchased on the cross. "What shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?"