God’s Last Word
to a Lost World
Let Christian People Everywhere Pass on the Message to Rejectors of Christ By DR. W, B. HINSON ISAIAH 3:10.
upon the upturned sword of the suicide, “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask Sen nacherib as the bugle calls sound to raise an army to its daily duty, and the whole army lies still in death, “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask Nebuchad nezzar, leaving a palace to go out and eat grass like an ox because of his stupid pride, “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask Belshazzar, calling for the profana tion of the. sacred vessels of the temple and his red blood mingling with the red wine on the white floor of the palace, while along the drained Euphrates bed the Persian comes to slay, “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask Herod, elate, making his wonderful speech, and hearing the plaudit, “ It is not the voice of a man, but the voice of God,” and he suddenly writhes and is eaten of worms and dies, “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask Judas, falling, because of a broken rope, and landing so heavily that his very bowels gushed out— the loathing and scorn of twenty centuries— “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask Julian, the apostate em peror of Rome, as he bowed his head in the drift of the wild world’s pride, and “Thou hast conquered Galilean,” he said, and died, . “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask Napoleon eating out his heart on the island of St. Helena after he boasted God was always wise enough to get on the side of the heaviest bat talion, “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask that fool over in Holland—murderer twelve million times over— as he twists in agony of shame and dread, “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Go into your jails, and asylums, and some wards of the hospital, and see if God told the truth
“ Say ye ta the v-'icked, it shall be ill with him. Say ye to the righteous, It shall be well with him.“
HAT is the summing up of the whole revelation of God. And so His last word as He closes the long disclosure of His will is, “ Say ye to the wicked it shall be ill with him, and to the righteous, it shall be
well with him.’’ Now is that true? Ask Adam as he turns his hack on the fairest garden ever made— for you know God was the first gardener— “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask Cain as he staggers out with bowed shoulders from the presence of God and exclaims, “ My punishment is greater than I can bear,” “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask the ante diluvian as the great floods drop, and the fountains of the deep are broken up, and the scream and the wail and the curse blend, “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask Egypt as at midnight there rises up over the doomed land the sob that tells of the death of the first born in every un-blood protected house, “ Is it ill with thé wicked?” Ask Pharaoh as the Red Sea waters fall back into their channels, and the wild scream of the drowning horse mingles with the hot imprecations of the drown ing men, “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask Korah, Dathan and Abiram, as holding the scoffers’ fire in their hands they go down alive into hell, “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask Achan as he and his are stoned to death outside the camp for disloyalty to the mandate of God, “ Is it ill with the wicked?” Ask Saul as his massive form bends down
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