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THOUGHTS FOR
UNSAVED PEOPLE
Neglect ■ Neglect is enough to ruin a man. A man who is in business need not com mit forgery or robbery to ruin himself: he has only to neglect his business, and his ruin is certain. A man who is lying on a bed of sickness need not cut his throat to destroy himself: he has only to neglect the means of restoration, and he will be ruined. A man floating in a skiff above Niagara need not move an oar, or make an effort, to destroy him self: he has only to neglect using the oar a t the proper time, and he will cer tainly be carried over the cataract. Most of the calamities of life are caused by simple neglect. Let no one infer, that, because he is not a drunkard or an adulterer or a murderer, therefore he will be saved. Such an inference would be as irrational as it would be for a man to infer* that, because he is not a murderer, his farm will produce a harvest; or that, because he is not an adulterer, therefore his merchandise, will take care of itself. Consider Three Things “I once met a scholar,” says Bishop Whipple, “who told me that for years he had read every book that he could which assailed the religion of Jesus Christ; and he said he would have be come an infidel but for three things. “First, I am a man. I am going somewhere. Tonight I am a day nearer the grave than I was last night. I have read all such books can tell me. They shed not one solitary ray upon the darkness. They shall not take away the only guide and leave me stone- blind. “Second, I had a mother. I saw her
go down the dark valley where I am going, and she leaned u^on an unseen arm as calmly as a child goes to sleep on the breast of its mother. I .know th a t this was not a. dream. ' “Third, I have three motherless daughters (and he said it with tears in his eyes); they have no protector but myself. I would rather kill them than to leave them in this sinful world if you blot out from it all the teachings of the Gospel.” Is Your Name Entered? They th a t are written, in the eternal leaves of heaven shall never be wrapped in th e cloudy sheets of darkness. A man may have his name written in the chronicles, yet be lost; written on a mon ument equal to a colossus, yet be ignom inious; written on the hospital gates, yet go to hell; written onjiis own house, yet another come to possess it. All these are but writings in the dust, or upon the waters, where the characters perish as soon as they are made. They no more prove a man happy than the fool could prove Pontius Pilate a saint because his name was written in the creed. But they th a t are w ritten in heaven are sure to inherit it.—T. Adams. How Critics Are Made Hours on books about the Bible and a few minutes in the Bible itself is the way the destructive critics are made. Reverse it and give the hours to the Bible, and how it will explain -itself, and even “ explain the commentaries” as the old lady told her pastor. Most Bible difficulties are not in th e Bible' but imagined in books about it.—Mun- hall.
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