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Show ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT "WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?" Psalm 2:1 and Act 4:25 "FORGET HELL! Recently we saw this sign beware of on the front end of an automobile such a "front-en- d mans "front end service, loader! "The heart in your bosom is a muffled drum beating a march for you to the cemetery, and God Almightys Judgment: "As it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. Hebrews 9:27 However, the above car owners "front end service seems to be the kind of service we have been getting from most of the pulpits and clergy for many years adopting an attitude as if "that which is not talked about does not exist! About 25 years ago the writer heard a sermon on the subject of "hell preached by a man reputed to be orthodox and "sound in the faith. He announced it was his first sermon on the subject of hell after a ministry of 18 years. The reaction of his hearer was that to a large extent the Scriptural Truth was fulfilled that says: 'To him that hath shall be given, but from him that hath not shall be taken away that which he seemeth to have. Or, in other words, he did not now accept and believe the Scriptures he had neglected so long! Many years ago the writer had the privilege a number of times to hear the late Bishop Candler it is my understanding that the Emory Candler School of Theology was named in his honor. Many interesting and striking incidents were told of his experiences. We it could be that undertake to tell one of them we might get two of them mixed into one story, yet we think we are careful to stress points that Q EVE I are faithful to the Bishops teaching and testimony. One Sunday morning the Bishop was standing in the front of a hotel in a city where he was to preach, waiting for his carriage or conveyance. He noticed a man in some activity that in those days was considered Sabbath in our day it would probably be Profanation all right as it appears we have developed such a religion and faith that puts no difference between the "sacred and profane, "the holy and unholy. The Bishop stepped over to the man and said: "Friend, you ought not to be doing that on The Lords Day, The Holy Sabbath! Arent you afraid the devil will get you? "Naw, replied the man, and then looking closely at the Bishop he said: "Where in the hell have I seen you before? "Well, now, said the Bishop, "just what part of hell are you from? It is said that Dante told this story on' himself: One day as he walked down the streets of Florence he noticed two women in a doorway looking hard at him, and overheard this remark: "There is the man that goes back and forth to hell every day! There was a cause, and good grounds for Dante, as well as all men who sincerely believe in "The God of The Bible and accept His Word as Supreme Authority, to meditate upon and seek to visualize the horrors of hell. Just about all that we have in The Scriptures of the awful subject fell from the mouth of The Lord Jesus Christ, and from His Beloved Apostle John found in the Revelation of Jesus Christ given unto John by Gods Angels. Dante in his vision of the Inferno sees hell divided into nine or ten "pits or "circles. It appears there is segregation in each pit: for example, the sexual, sensual, lustful sinners are together in one pit but they are not enjoying one anothers company. The gluttons occupy a pit of their own, and so on. Remember the preachers question to the Sabbath desecrator: "Well, now, what part of hell are you from? Let us look and behold what Dante saw "in that part of hell he called the fourth "pit or enclosure! There he sees the Demon Plutus, with hoarse voice and inflated lips, symbolizing "PRIDE OF HEALTH! These occupy the same pit where the misers and prodigals are made to herd together. Their mutual hatred makes them form into opposing bands, which attack one another without ceasing, reminding one another at each encounter of the degrading voices that have brought them down. Amongst them are clerics and cardinals and popes! "NOW, MY SON, THOU CANST DISVANITY OF CERN THE SHORT-LIVETHOSE POSSESSIONS THAT ARE COMMITTED TO FORTUNE, FOR WHICH THE HUMAN RACE IS EVER WRANGLING. FOR ALL THE GOLD THAT IS UNDER THE MOON, OR THAT EVER EXISTED, WOULD NOT GIVE This REST TO THESE WEARY SOULS! fortune that makes people so contentious, is hidden like a snake in the grass. It enters, however, into the plan of Providence, and it is through its influence that peoples, are great or weak, that one nation rules and another L languishes. Is the Bishops question relevant for you, for me? "What part of hell are you from? The late Dr. Len G. Broughton, who for many years was Pastor of The Baptist Tabernacle on Luckie St. in Atlanta, and under whose ministry the present building was erected, told of his experience in a revival meeting. He had preached the sermon, and in giving the invitation for the people to forsake their sins and come forward and publicly accept Christ, he asked the Christian people who were willing to go about the congregation and give people a personal invitation, and offer to come forward with them if desired. There was a well known and brilliant lawyer on the back seat. The Doctor noticed a get up young man, known to be about half-wiand go straight to the lawyer and speak to him. After a word or two the lawyers face flushed, he got up and went out. The Doctor was afraid he had ruined things insofar as that prospect was t, concerned. It was near the end of the week before he learned what had happened. The lawyer came to see him and told this story. The young man came to him and abruptly said: "Do you want to go to heaven? It offended and angered him so much that he said, "Naw! "Well, go to hell then, the boy replied. However, regardless of the provocation, he had been unable to shake off the fact that he had said he did not want to "go to heaven, and he had faith enough to believe the alternative was as the boy said "then hell! The man was unable to find peace of soul until he acknowledged his lost condition, and called on The Saviour to Save. It appears that it took quite a shock to wake him up to his spiritual condition, and God used this poor boy to produce the shock needed. "IS IT WELL WITH YOUR SOUL? BEWARE -Drememler Him who ON'T FORGET HELL came to save. P.O. BOX 405, PECDR, GA. 30031 i rti n r |