TRUMPET BLASTS 
 
 J. A. KRING 
 
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 COPY B. 
 
 
 DEDICATION. 
 
 To God the Father, God the Son, and God the 
 Holy Ghost, whose I am, and whom. I serve, these 
 lines are humbly dedicated by the author. 
 
 By Geo. H. ^ith. 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 I. Sin 11. 
 
 II. Sowing and Reaping 20. 
 
 III. Conviction and Repentance 31. 
 
 IV. Faith and Conversion 39. 
 
 V. Consecration and Sanctification 48. 
 
 VI. Death, Hell and the Judgment 57. 
 
 VII. Death, Hell and the Judgment, Cont 65. 
 
 VIII. A Pen Sketch of Personal Experience. . ..73. 
 
 IX. A Pen Sketch of Personal Experience 
 
 Continued 83, 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 In these days of swift, appalling apostasy, when 
 men hold such a vague, dreamy, uncertain idea as 
 touching the almost unlimited responsibility of liv- 
 ing, and the solemnity of death, hell, the judgment, 
 and the recompence of a future life, it beco mes 
 not only a God-given privilege, but an imperative 
 duty to seize the well tested, long tried, and ever ef- 
 fective Gosper trumpet, and waxing stronger and 
 louder, so and a startling alai'tn to the siliy, giddy, 
 careless, sleeping multitudes who are sweeping, with 
 the momentum of a cyclone, down the river of death, 
 past the last lighthouse of fall salvation, soon to be 
 hurled over the falls of damnation, down, down, down 
 into the lurid, liquid lake of fire and brimstone. Yea, 
 it is necessary to "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up 
 thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their 
 transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins." 
 Isa.. 58:1. 
 
 This little book has been written in the midst of 
 incessant evangelistic labors, and hence there has 
 been no time for polished sentences, rhetorical flour 
 ishes, or oratorical flights. Indeed these are not 
 
half so much needed just now, as the redhot, burn 
 ing, scorching truth of God, which cuts through the 
 stubborn will, pierces the hard heart, melts the stiff 
 spirit, aud puts to blessed rest the disquieted soul. 
 No time to trifle now. Men are being damned at 
 lightning speed. What we do must be done quickly. 
 The sweets of salvation are too delightful, sin is too 
 awful, heaven is too beautiful, hell is too real, and 
 eternity is too long for man, the creature of a mo- 
 ment, to trifle with eternal realities. ■ 
 
 I have prayed much over, what is found in the 
 following p^ es ' and M ieve ^ He has led me to write 
 these few feeble liD- es ' [ oal ^ : crave His -blessings 
 upon them, and ask Hii2? ^° us ® them, at least a little, 
 to awaken some souls to theiT ^rik And whatever 
 good may be derived therefroi^ ? He shail have the 
 glory. A thousand blessings " : iipori &'+*«> read - 
 yours and His in Jesus' name, 
 
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KITRCBUCTIOn. 
 
 Upon the windows of a publishing house in one 
 of our great American cities are posted the words, 
 1 'Books are the only things that live forever. ' J While 
 this is not wholly true yet it is largely so, therefore 
 we should be careful what we write. 
 
 One of old said, "What I have written I have 
 written. " We should be thankful that in these days 
 of skepticism and infidelity, when real conviction is 
 scored at, and conversion is made to mean only a 
 change of purpose, and while thousands are plung- 
 ing headlong into the lake of fire and brimstone, 
 deceived by this false teaching, that here and there 
 we find a teacher that will write and preach the 
 truth on these lines, and thunder into the ears of 
 the unsaved that conviction is a real godly sorrow 
 for sin, and that conversion is a glorious work of 
 grace wrought in the human soul whereby it is made 
 alive and therefore a new creature in Christ Jesus, 
 old things are passed away and all things are be- 
 come new. 
 
 Of this class is the author of "Trumpet Blasts 
 
to the Unsaved." Although a young man, he gives 
 the trumpet no uncertain sound, but boldly sets 
 forth the true doctrine of scriptural conviction, 
 regeneration and entire sanctification in a way so 
 plain that none need misunderstand his meaning, 
 and God is setting ftis seal to : - his labors by giving 
 him hundreds of souls for his hire. 
 
 We recommend this little book to the reader 
 as logical and scriptural, and we trust it will be 
 read and studied with much prayer and self-ex' 
 amination for God has said. "Be not deceived." 
 In Him, John P. Watkins. 
 
Chapter I. 
 SIN. 
 
 I. John 3:4. 
 Only three letters in the word, but oh! what an 
 untold amount of sadness, sorrow, misery, woe, and 
 ever lasting ruin it has wrought among the sons and 
 daughters of men. Sin. There is nothing like it. 
 It is not only real, but it is the most awful thing in 
 all God's Universe. It has withered, blighted, 
 cursed and wrecked every thing and every body it 
 has touched. It attacked, overcame and slew the 
 first pair of the human family in the Garden of Eden. 
 It was sin that brought on the deluge and swept the 
 Antedeluvian multitudes down into a Devil's Hell. 
 Sin slew the prophets and the faithful embassadors 
 of the gospel. Sin nailed Jesus Christ to the cross 
 and since then has murdered multitudes of the 
 saints. To-day it is filling penitentiaries, jails, 
 brothels, houses of illfame, saloons, beer gardens 
 and imbeciles with blood- bought, judgment bound 
 and eternity destined souls. Nor does it stop here, 
 but swiftly and surely drags its duped victims down 
 
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 to a liquid lake of fire and brimstone, where they will 
 be kicked as foot balls around the dark walls of the 
 dismal pandemonium the sport of demonical millions, 
 while the ages of eternity roll up from the dark 
 realms below. Apalling scene! Frightful spectacle! 
 Sin Defined. 
 
 God has not left it to the caprice of man, his wis- 
 dom, his knowledge, his understanding, nor yet to 
 his reasoning powers to give to his iellows a defini- 
 tion of sin. He well knew what was in man, and that 
 if he left it to him there would be all kinds of notions, 
 ideas, opinions, theories, etc., as to what it really is. 
 So He, Himself, has given a Divine definition that for- 
 ever settles the controversy. Here it is as He thun- 
 dered it from the throne of His holiness: "Whoso- 
 ever committeth sin transgresseth also the law; For 
 sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John 3:4. 
 And the "Law" spoken of in this passage is not hu- 
 man, or man made, but it is divine. Since it is di- 
 vine we are not surprised to find the following: 
 "Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment 
 holy, and just and good." Rom. 7:12. 
 
 The different classes for which this law was 
 made are set forth in the following words: "Knowing 
 this that the law is not for the righteous man, but for 
 the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sin- 
 ners, for unholy and for profane, for murders of 
 
SIN. 13, 
 
 fathers and murders of mothers, for manslayers, for 
 whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with 
 mankind, for menstealers, for 'liars, for purj'ured 
 persons, and if there be any other thing that is con- 
 trary to sound doctrine.'' 1 Tim; 1:9,10. 
 
 Here we have it, like a winding sheet of light- 
 ning, straight from the throne. This divine law, like 
 a two edged sword, is drawn out and ready to devour 
 the lawless, the disodebient, the ungodly, the sin- 
 ners, the unholy, the profane, the murderers, the 
 manslayers, the whoremongers, the defiled with 
 mankind, the men stealers, the liars, the perjured- 
 person, and if there be any other thing contrary to 
 sound doctrine. Listen, "To Me beiongeth vengeance, 
 and recompense; their foot shall slide in due time for 
 the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things 
 that shall come upon them make haste." Deut. 32:35. 
 Sinner look out or you will drop into hell. 
 Sin Located. 
 
 Some say it is located in the liquor traffic, the to- 
 bacco evil, the traffic in girls, the lodge, the labor 
 unions, the opium trade, life insurance, the combined 
 "trusts", church sprees, etc. All of the above, and 
 a thousand more too numerous to mention, that are 
 world wide in their influence, and honey combing the 
 entire social fabric, are feeders to hell, smell of the 
 pestiferous, suffocating fumes in the region of the 
 
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 damned and are engulfing millions in a bottomless 
 pit of irrevocable, irretrievable woe and misery. But 
 if we overtake, find, and locate the fountain head of 
 sin, from which these sickening, withering, blighting 
 streams of impurity flow, we must get on a hotter 
 track than any of those mentioned above. For if sin 
 is to be destroyed, it must be located, so that the 
 divine power which does the work can be applied. 
 And thanks be to Jesus, He has not left us in the 
 dark at this point. He, Himself, has located it, and 
 points to the corrupt, filthy fountain from which it 
 flows. Here it is: "For from within, out of the heart 
 of man, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornica- 
 tions, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, 
 deceit, lascivousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, 
 foolishness, all these evil things come from within 
 and defile the man." Mk. 7:21-23. "The heart is 
 deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. " 
 Jere. 17:9. 
 
 Here we have it in a nutshell. Sin is located 
 not in leather, or wood, or any of these material ob- 
 jects, but in the human heart which is the seat of the 
 affections. So says the Great Teacher and so we be- 
 lieve. All these impure, unclean, filthy streams that 
 are inundating the whole world and penetrating the 
 entire social fabric, will cease to flow just in porpor- 
 tion as the heart of the individuals are cleansed and 
 purified by the precious Blood of the Lamb. There 
 
SIN. 15. 
 
 is no other hope, nor is there any other way, for it is 
 written, "Neither is there salvation in any other; for 
 there is none other name under heaven given among 
 men, whereby we must be saved.'-' Acts 4:12. '-But 
 if we walk in the light, as HE is in the light, we have 
 fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus 
 Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. " 1 Jno. 1:7. 
 
 Some things to which sin is likened. 
 
 I. Sin is likened to afire. "For wickedness burn- 
 etii as the fire." Isa. 9:18. Fire burns, penetrates, 
 devours, consumes and destroys. And this is just 
 what sin is doing. It is consuming manhood and 
 womanhood. It is burning up the people of this world 
 with lust, greed, unholy appetites, unholy passions 
 and desires. Sin in the human soul sets the affec- 
 tions and desires in a raging flame of hell-fire that 
 sweeps through the deep subterranean regions of the 
 heart spreading desolation, degredation, wreck and 
 ruin, and, filling its posessor with the diabolic attri- 
 butes of his satanic majesty makes him or her con- 
 genial for the society of the damned. James in 
 speaking of the fire of hell, and the smoldering em- 
 bers of the bottomless pit, both of which are to be 
 found in the heart of the unregenerated, says: "And 
 the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity; so is the 
 tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole 
 body, and setteth on fire the course of nature: [Greek,. 
 { 'the wheel of nature"] and it is set on fire of hell." 
 
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 James 3:6. Wake up or you will burn in hell fire 
 eternally. 
 
 2. Sin is likened to a disease. Disease in the 
 Bible is often used figuratively, as is seen in the fol- 
 lowing scripture: "From the sole of the foot even 
 unto the head there is no soundness in it: but wounds 
 and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been 
 closed, neither bound up, neither molified with oint- 
 ment." Isa. 1:6. Of the thirty five different kind of 
 diseases spoken of in the Bible it is probable there is 
 none more offensive and destructive to human 1 life, 
 than the loathsome disease of leprosy. In the thir- 
 teenth chapter of Leviticus we have the development 
 of sin set forth in a figurative way by a detailed ac- 
 count of the beginning, progress and final end of that 
 obnoxious disease of leprosy. The following charac- 
 teristics of this disease are worthy of note. Leprosy 
 for the most part was hereditary. It was deep seat- 
 ed within. The first visible signs were s mall. It was 
 gradual in its development. It was loathsome and 
 offensive. It brought a melancholy condemnation, 
 and there was no earthly cure for it. So ifc is with 
 sin. We were born in sin. ^Behold I was shapenin 
 iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. ' 
 Ps. 51:5. It is deep seated within the human soul. 
 Like leprosy it is gradual in its development. It is 
 loathsome and offensive, both to the blessed adorable 
 Trinity, and to all the pure and holy. It brings a 
 
SIN. 17. 
 
 melancholy eondamnafcion, even an eternal separation 
 from haaven and its inhabitants, and everlasting 
 damnation in a davit's hell. And there is no earthly 
 cure for ii. Nothing bu* the blood of our ever to be 
 praised and adorable Saviour end Omnipotent Power 
 can destroy it and cleanse it from the human soul. 
 { 'Without the shedding of blood is no remission.' ' 
 Heb. 9:22. "Neither is there salvation in any other: 
 for there is none other name under heaven given 
 among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12. 
 Sinner behold thy Redeemer. 
 
 3. Sin has been likened to rebellion. "Behold 
 to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than 
 the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witch" 
 craft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry." 
 1 Sam. 15:22-23. While it is true that none of us 
 were born sinners, it is equally true that none of us 
 were born sinless. That is to say, we were all born 
 with the sin principle in us, inherited from our fed- 
 eral head, Adam, which at the years of accountabil- 
 ity, not only leads us away from God, but quickly, 
 and most surely develops into open rebellion against 
 the divine law, which is "holy, just, and good." 
 Hence, we are not surprised to find open rebellion 
 against God, in the home, the community, the state, 
 the nation, and the nations. Men are lost; they are 
 rebels; they are morally insane; they are in league 
 with the unholy trinity, yea, with hell. itself, and are 
 
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 arrayed against God and His kingdom, His truth, 
 and His saints. Sinner, this means you. If you 
 continue to follow the inclinations and desires of your 
 own deceived, depraved heart, you with the millions 
 that know not God, will make your bed in a devil's 
 hell, Look out, for your feet are taking hold on it 
 now. Yea, "hell from beneath is moved to meet thee 
 at thy coming." 
 
 4. Sin has been likened to blindness. "Their 
 minds were blinded." 2 Cor. 3:14. "In whom the 
 god of this world hath blinded the minds of them 
 which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gos- 
 pel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine 
 unto them." 2 Cor. 4:4. This is not a physical, but 
 a spiritual blindness. Let me illustrate: The human 
 body is made up of three grand classes or systems 
 of organs. The first is the motive, or mechanical 
 system, which is composed of the bones, the liga* 
 ments, and muscles. The second is the vital, or nu- 
 tritive system, which is composed of the lymphatics, 
 the blood vessels, and the glands, the office of which 
 is circulation, absorption, and secretion. The third 
 is the mental, or nervous system, which is composed 
 of the organs of sense, the cerebrum and the cere- 
 bellum. The organs of sense by which we see, hear, 
 smell, taste, and feel, and through which we receive 
 impressions from external objects, communicate 
 their impressions to the brain by means of special 
 
SIN. 19. 
 
 nerves. This picture has its counterpart in the spir- 
 itual realm. Corresponding to these senses are the 
 five spiritual senses of the human soul, which are 
 made alive in regeneration, and very keenly and 
 highly intensified in entire sanctification. For we 
 must not overlook the fact when Adam fell (and the 
 human race fell with him) he lost his spiritual head. 
 Hence this poor lost race is a headless race. This 
 accounts for the reckless way in which poor lost sin 
 ners rush down to a devil's hell. They have no spir- 
 itual eyes, hence they cannot see the "lake of fire 
 and brimstone" into which they are going. They 
 are without ears, hence they do not hear the cries, 
 groans, and shrieks of the doomed and dying. They 
 have no spiritual tongues, hence they can not taste 
 the fire of hell that is about to bum them with "the 
 fire that never shall be quenched." And as for the 
 sense of smelling and feeling, they neither smell the 
 fiery billows that roll beneath their feet, nor feel in 
 any degree, the pangs of hell torment, and the suf- 
 ferings of the damned. Sinner friend, this is your 
 own picture. In Jesus' name, wake up before de- 
 mons drag your poor lost soul over the cataracts of 
 eternal despair, down into the unquenchable flames 
 of hell fire. 
 
Chapter II. 
 SOWING AND REAPING. 
 
 "For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." 
 Gal, 6:1, 
 
 There are four classes of people in the world. 1. 
 The holy. 2. The moral (so-called). 3. The hypo- 
 crite. 4. The out- broken sinner. The first sow to 
 themselves "in righteousness". The second sow self- 
 righteousness. The third sow hypocrisy. While the 
 fourth sow sin in all its forms. The seed sown, 
 whether good or bad, falls into the heart soil, is buried 
 there, germinates, takes root and springs forth and 
 produces both personal and active character. The 
 character is nourished, cultivated, trained, grows and 
 develops, until at last an abundant, well-rllled, ripe 
 harvest is brought forth. This is followed by the 
 reaping day, which is two -fold in its nature. For ifc is 
 a settled, well known fact, proven both by the Bible 
 and human testimony, that, although indiyiduals, 
 families and nations do reap much of what they have 
 sown during the probationary period, yet the final 
 reaping day, with all the momentous disclosures that 
 will be brought to view, with every secret thing is yet 
 
SOWING AND REAPING. 21. 
 
 future, and confined to a period of time which the 
 holy Scriptures designate as "the day of judgment". 
 
 The silly, deluded multitudes who are marching 
 with double quick time down to a yawning hell, are 
 ever busy sowiri^sin in all its forms, having, it seems, 
 no thought, or conception whatever, of the reaping 
 day and the final consequences of sin. Throwing off 
 all moral restraint, ignoring all personal responsibili- 
 ty and duty both toward God and man, hooting at 
 divine demands and commands, and jeering at God- 
 given privileges and opportunities, they- rush on, like 
 the prancing steed to battle, when suddenly the sandy 
 foundation over which they are traveling gives away 
 and wfth an awful wail they drop into hell, and going 
 down beneath its fiery billows they sink to rise no 
 more. Appalling scene ! Frightful spectacle ! 
 
 As we stated before, we are not only sowing, but 
 we are going to reap. And we are going to reap just 
 what we sow; for God declares, that "Whatsoever a 
 man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that 
 soweth to his flesh, | shall of the flesh reap corruption : 
 but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit 
 reap life everlasting," Gal. 6:7, 8. 
 
 Briefly let us look for a few illustrations of this 
 God- given declaration. And may the Holy Ghost 
 guide our thoughts in the path of truth. 
 
 1. If you sow whiskey and intoxicating bever- 
 ages, you will reap drunkards. Whiskey is an alco- 
 
22. TRUMPET BLASTS. 
 
 holic poison going direct to the brain and unbalancing 
 the lower part, it destroys memory, meditation and 
 association of thoughts. It slays an army of one 
 hundred thousand each year in the United States ; 
 two hundred thousands in France and in other coun- 
 tries in proportion. It causes nine tenths of our 
 poverty and three fourths of our crime. Ninety three 
 per -cent of the inmates of penitentiaries (there are 
 fifty two penitentiaries in the United States) are hab- 
 itual drunkards. Thirty nine out of every one- 
 hundred deaths are caused by the liquor traffic. 
 Drunkenness in this country has increased thirty 
 seven per- cent in the last ten years. There are one 
 thousand, seven hundred and forty one breweries^ 
 two thousand, two hundred and sixty seven distiller- 
 ies and more than two hundred and forty thousand 
 saloons in the United States. These contribute to 
 the support of the national government one hundred 
 and eighty five million dollars annually, but they 
 take from the citizens of this country over one billion, 
 two hundred and fifty million dollars every year. 
 The beer bill for the world is two thousand dollars 
 every minute, or six pounds and fifteen shillings 
 worth vanishes down the world's throat at every tick 
 of the watch. The amount drank by the world in one 
 year would make a lake three and three -fourth miles 
 long, one mile wide and six feet deep, or two thous- 
 and, three hundred and nineteen acres in area. In 
 
SOWING AND REAPING. 23. 
 
 this lake we could drown all the English speaking 
 people to the number of one hundred and twenty 
 millions, while all the people of England, Scotland, 
 Ireland and France could stand in its bed. This hell 
 on wheels (that is, the liquor traffic) makes a pauper 
 every tick of the watch, and every minute disquali- 
 fies seventy eight men for business. It is the broth 
 of hell, and the liquid fire of perdition. Beware of it, 
 for "At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth 
 like an adder," Prov. 23:32. 
 
 2. If you sow tobacco you will reap corruption, 
 filth and a malady of diseases. Tobacco is a twin 
 brother to whisky. It is a narcotic poison going di- 
 rect to the heart. It contains seven per-cent nico- 
 tine. One drop of this will kill a cat. There is 
 enough of it in one cigar, if extracted and taken, to 
 kill two men. There is enough of it in one pound to 
 kill three hundred men. It slays an army of twenty 
 thousand men each year in the United States alone. 
 There are fifteen thousand insane people in the insane 
 asylums of this country who have gone insane from 
 its use. It produces heart disease, Bright's dis- 
 ease, dyspepsia, smokers' sore throat, cancer, etc. 
 It lowers the morals, diseases the whole body, cre- 
 ates an appetite for intoxicating drinks, takes a firm 
 grip upon the will power, weakens it, leads its victim 
 away from the path of truth and purity, and is one of 
 the open doors to hell. There is more than one billion 
 
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 pounds of it i-aiiod each year in the world, at an ex* 
 pen* 3 of 3to hundrad million dollar! to the farmers. 
 Tho ^oboeoo bill for tho Unit*! Statee is seven nun- 
 dr od and iltty million dollars a year, and for the 
 s^h^i'i srcrld it is oror on© billion dollars annually. 
 The increase in the usa of oigara and cigarettes in 
 the United 3tatea since the y^ar 1875 is alarming. In 
 tha^j yoa** the people of this country used forty million. 
 In 1300 they used three thousand, two hundred and 
 sixty million. During the past year ending June, 
 1906, the number of cigarettes smoked were three 
 billion, seven hundred and ninety one million, seven 
 hundred and fifty nine thousand, nine hundred and 
 three ; and the number of cigars smoked during the 
 same period were eight billion, seventy million, six 
 hundred and seventy two thousand, six hundred and 
 forty. Without controversy the filthy weed is a men- 
 ace to good society, and a strong breeder of impurity, 
 vice and crime. It makes its victim as filthy as a 
 goat, as stinking as a shoat, and quickly prepares 
 him for hell fire. Beware of this blight of the pit. 
 
 3. If you sow cards you will reap gamblers. We 
 read of tobacco fiends, cigarette fiends, whiskey 
 fiends, novel fiends, etc. But here comes the gam- 
 bling fiend. He is diseased, debauched, degraded, 
 vicious, and has little respect for himself or any one 
 else. He apends his nights in the 3aloon, the brothel, 
 the gambling hell, and in lurking about the streets 
 
SOWING AND REAPING. 25. 
 
 watching for prey. During the day while honest men 
 labor for a livelihood, he sleeps his life away. The 
 following is applicable in his case. "He lieth in wait 
 secretly as a lion in his den : he lieth in wait to catch 
 the poor; he doth catch the poor, when he draweth 
 him into his net," Ps. 10:9. Many look upon him as 
 one of the offscourings of the earth. Poor soul. But 
 he is not alone in this soul- diseasing, mind « polluting, 
 hell- igniting practice. These popular, apostate 
 preachers and fallen church members of these back- 
 slidden, fallen ecclesiasticisms are as deep in the 
 blue mud of hell, as he is in the foaming broth of the 
 bottomless pit. Why? Because they uphold card 
 playing, dancing, pool, games of chance, etc., and 
 thus exhibit to a God- defying, Christ-rejecting, 
 Spirit-insulting, hell-bound world that they are in 
 league with the unholy trinity, on the palace car 
 route to the lake of fire and brimstone. Many a poor 
 gambler received his first lesson in the parsonage, or 
 in the house of a popular church member. What a 
 shame! What an outrage! Those who pass for 
 leaders and ins!ructors in religious thought, and who 
 ought to point dying men and women to the Lamb of 
 God, "which taketh away the sin of the world", giv- 
 ing souls their first lessons in damnation. Think. of 
 it. Eight million dollars pass from hand to hand each 
 day in Christendom through gambling practice, and 
 82,800,000,000 every twelve months. And why? Be- 
 
26. TRUMPET BLASTS. 
 
 cause we, as a nation, are reaping just what we have 
 sown. * 'Be not deceived: God is not mocked, " Do 
 you see? 
 
 4. If you sow dances you will reap harlots, liber- 
 tines, and suicides. There are 350,000 fallen women 
 in the United States. The average life of these women 
 is estimated to be only five years. Hence this means 
 that they die at the rate of 70,000 r a year, or 5916 a 
 month, or 197 a day, or 8 per hour, or one every eight 
 minutes. Seventy five per-cent of this unfortunate 
 class testify and lay the charge of their downfall di- 
 rectly, or indirectly, at the door of the modern dance. 
 The positions taken in the modern dance arouse the 
 passions of men and women as scarcely anything else. 
 And a demon-possessed man with his vile passions 
 set ablaze with the fire of hell is an inhuman monster. 
 As A general rule no true virtuous woman will se- 
 lect for herself a companion to share the joys and 
 sorrows of married life, who is fond of putting his 
 arm around the waist of every young lady who does 
 not object; and no true virtuous man is likely to 
 choose for himself a young lady to be his wife and 
 life companion who is delighted to have the young 
 men put their arms around her waist. If the liber- 
 ties taken with your daughter in the modern dance 
 were repeated in your parlor, by that young man who 
 is keeping company with her, you would kick him 
 out of the house and over the back fence. And yet 
 
SOWING AND REAPING. 27. 
 
 fathers and mothers will pay for and send their 
 daughters to dancing Masters and thus buy them a 
 ticket over the Black Valley Route to the nethermost 
 hell. Beware of the modern dance, another one of 
 the open doors to helL 
 
 5. If you sow oyster stews, ice cream socials, 
 strawberry festivals, cake walks, foot and ankle 
 shows, bazaars, grab bags, etc., in the church (so- 
 called) you will reap a God -in suiting, Christ-ignoring, 
 Holy Spirit -rejecting and anti-holiness society, who, 
 themselves, are not only going down quick into hell, 
 but who also are poisoning those with whom they 
 come in contact, and being used as the direct tool in 
 the hands of the devil to damn them world without 
 end. Lift up your eyes, look about you and see for 
 yourself. These poor, lost, backslidden, fallen de- 
 nominations, who, fifty and seventy five years ago 
 had the old time Jerusalem, Holy Ghost fire, and 
 their altars lined with weeping, heart broken peni- 
 tents, are today cold, dead, lifeless, and fireless. 
 They have ice in the pulpit, snow in the choir, and 
 icicles in the pew six inches long. But why such a 
 spiritual dearth? Because the above mentioned 
 things, together with so many infidelic preachers, and 
 a thousand other things too numerous to mention, 
 have driven God the Holy Ghost, and Bible salvation 
 from their midst, and in the place of these have plac- 
 ed the devil and his sinning religion. Instead of 
 
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 preaching hell-fire and brimstone to sinners, in order 
 to get them saved from all their sins, and heavenly 
 fire to believers in order to get them sanctified wholly, 
 they spend their God-given time (many of them) in 
 preaching: human theology, theories, opinions, lying 
 traditions, creeds, man made churches, historical 
 truth, scientific truth, political truth, etc.. ; while the 
 poor, deceived, hood- winked congregations,' the silly, 
 
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 deluded devotees of a bloodless, sinning religion die 
 on their hands and drop into a devil's hell, since 
 there is not enough Gospel truth in one of their ser- 
 monettes to make soup for a sick grasshopper. Do 
 you see it? They are reaping just what they have 
 sown. May God in mercy wake them up before it is 
 too late, and save them from a devil's hell. 
 
 6. If you sow secret societies, lodges, labor un- 
 ions, etc., you will reap idolaters, infidels, skeptics, 
 unbelievers, and faithless men and women, Secret 
 societies, lodges, labor unions fraternal orders, etc., 
 are '.aking this, and other countries." Their history 
 proves beyond the possibility of a cavil, that they 
 are made up largely of thieves, murderers, whore- 
 mongers, liars, perjured persons, tobacco chewerf, 
 whiskey drinkers, etc. And being bound as they 
 are by the most blood curdling oaths, they stand by, 
 and protect each other in ailkindsof vice, crime, and 
 wickedness. They were born in hell, originated in 
 the bottomless pit, smell of "the tires of perdition, 
 
SOWING AND REAPING. ( 29. 
 
 and are upheld and pushed forward by his satanic 
 majesty. Bishops, presiding elders, preachers, and 
 church members are among their faithful adherents, 
 all of which go to show the corruption of the social 
 fabric, the apostasy of the times, and the near ap- 
 proach of the coming King. However, the willing 
 and obedient are hearing the call. '"'Come out from 
 among them, and' be ye separate, saith the Lord, and 
 touch not the unclean thing, and 1 will receive you," 
 for "it is a shame to speak of those things which are 
 done of them in secret." 2 Col 6:17; Eph. 5:12. 
 
 7. If you sow anger, pride, jealousy, irritabil- 
 ity, impatience, and carelessness, and recklessness, 
 in your home life and government, you will reap a 
 class of rebellious,' disobedient, anarchal children, 
 who in early life will be "filled with the diabolic attri- 
 butes that make them congenial for the society of 
 the damned, and bring your gray hairs with sorrow 
 down to the grave. In these clays of swift appalling 
 apostasy, children, for the most part are not raised 
 at all, if viewed from the Bible standpoint, but are 
 simply turned loose, like cattle, and left to grow up. 
 Hence, it has come to pass that boys and girls at the 
 age of ten and fifteen years know as much as men 
 and women used to know at twenty-five. It would 
 take the mathematical calculation of an arch angel 
 to figure out the moral state of society in a half dozen 
 generations from now, if Jesus tarries, and things 
 
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 continue to move on as they are going at present. 
 No doubt multitudes of children will meet their pa- 
 rents at the judgment, and take them by the throat 
 and curse them to their face for being the direct 
 tool in the hands of the devil to damn them world 
 without end. 
 
Chapter III. 
 CONVICTION AND REPENTANCE. 
 
 4 'And when He is come He will reprove the world of sin, 
 and of righteousness, and of judgment." John 16:8. "Ee- 
 pent ye and believe the gospel." Mark 1:15. 
 
 Conviction is the direct work of the Holy Ghost, 
 the Third Person in the Adorable Trinity. The 
 Greek is Elegclio and means to refute, to reprove, to 
 convict. A radical, thorough, pungent conviction for 
 sin, both actual and original, is the only foundation 
 for every true work of grace, without which conver- 
 sion or sanctification is absolutely impossible. Holy 
 Ghost conviction breaks up the fallow heart soil, 
 softens the hard, harsh spirit, melts the stiff, starchy 
 soul, moves the stubborn will, the king of humanity, 
 to action, and seizes the individual thus exercised 
 with the pains of hell, and gives a faint feeling of hell 
 torments. The conviction is for sins committed, 
 righteousness required, and the coming judgment 
 that is absolutely certain to over take the finally im- 
 penitent. The blessed Holy Ghost using the word of 
 God, which is the Divine Sword of the Spirit, (See 
 JEph. 6:17.) probes down into the deep subterranean 
 region of the soul and makes one feel as if the arch- 
 angel of justice had blown his trumpet and sent forth 
 
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 the summons for him to appear at the judgment bar 
 of a thrice holy God. Hence the heavy moaning, the 
 deep sighing, the loud sobbing, the incesant weeping 
 and the persistent cries for mercy, God and salvation. 
 
 It is under such conditions as these that the ap- 
 petite wanes, the desire for food, sleep, unholy asso- 
 ciates and all kinds of -wickedness fades away as the 
 gray light of the early morning, and the poor, help- 
 less, captive soul, longs to be releaved from the awful 
 load of sin, and, like the caged bird, set at liberty, 
 Tha dark, hideous sinful past, like a mighty pano- 
 rama, rolls before the soul's vision in a geometrical 
 progression until the very night of hell itself shuts 
 out every ray of light and the wounded spirit cries 
 out in anguish, "I'm lost! I'm lost!'' It is thi3 sort 
 of a cry that sees hell to boiling, devils to howling, 
 hypocrites to raging and anti-holiness preachers, 
 church members and churches (so called) to opposing 
 and rejecting the work, crying "fanaticism", "senti- 
 mentalism", "bosh", "excitement", "wildfire", etc. 
 But the soul that is thus suspended over hell with 
 the gospel harpoon pays little attention to the people, 
 the surroundings^ the conditions, or the circu in- 
 stances and cries, "What must I do to be saved?" 
 The answer comes back "Repent and believe the 
 gospel. " t i But what is Bible repentance? Let iajs see. 
 
 1. Bible repentance means a godly sorrow for 
 sin. "For godly sorrow worketh repentance to sal- 
 
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 vation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the 
 world worketh death. For behold the self same thing 
 that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness 
 it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, 
 yea, whaMndignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehe- 
 ment desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge," 
 2 Cor. 7:10,11. 
 
 Here we have two kinds of sorrow. The first 
 is "godly sorrow": the second is "the sorrow of the 
 world". The first is from above: the second is from 
 beneath. The first "worketh repentance to salvation 
 not to be repented of", while the second "worketh 
 death". That is, it works spiritual, physical, tem- 
 poral and eternal death. Prom the above Scripture 
 we see that an individual with "godly sorrow" for 
 sin will do seven things: 1. There will be carefulness 
 on every line. "What carefulness it wrought in you." 
 
 2. There will be a cleaning up and a clearing of obsta- 
 cles out of the way. "What clearing of yourselves." 
 
 3. There will be an indignation against every wrong 
 thing. "Yea what indignation." 1. There will be a 
 fear of doing that which is wrong. "Yea what fear. '"' 
 5. There will be a longing desire for God. "Yea, what 
 vehement desire." 6. There will be an almost con- 
 suming zeal for right. "Yea what zeal." 7. There 
 will be a real hatred of the devil and all his works. 
 "Yea what revenge." 
 
 You see then by comparing the above Bible pic- 
 
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 ture, or photograph of one who has a real Vgodly sor- 
 row" for sin with the modern teaching on this point 
 ihat they are as diverse each from the other as night 
 is from day, or light is from darkness. This modern 
 -teaching which originated in hell, and smells of the 
 pestiferous fumes of the lost, and has been, and is 
 being scattered broadcast by the devils preachers, 
 holds that because of the culture, education, refin- 
 ement, advancement, etc. of these "wonderful days", 
 It is no longer necessary to have deep, pungent con- 
 viction and "godly sorrow" for sin. Away with this 
 skepticism, infidelity and "higher criticism" of these 
 "last days" of swift, appalling apostasy and "to the 
 law and testimony" which says, "The heart is deceit- 
 ful above all things and desperately wicked",, and 
 "When they heard this, they were pricked in their 
 heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the 
 apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?" 
 Jer. 17:9, and Acts 2:37. 
 
 2. Bible repentance means the confession of all 
 sin. "Against thee, thee only have I sinned and done 
 this evil in thy sight. " Psa, 51:4. "If we confess 
 our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins 
 and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 
 1:9. Note the expression "our sins". There are 
 wives who are willing to confess their husbands' sins, 
 and there are husbands who are willing to confess 
 their wives' sins. There are parents who are willing 
 
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 to confess the sins of their children, and there are 
 children who are willing to confess the wrong doings 
 of their parents. There are sisters who are willing 
 to confess the wickedness of their brothers, and there 
 are brothers who are willing to confess the mistakes 
 and errors of their sisters. There are relatives who 
 are willing to confess the crookedness and inconsis- 
 tencies of their kinsfolk, but are unwilling to confess 
 their own sins and misdoings. But according to the 
 above Scripture every single individual who has sin- 
 ned and withheld from God, society and him cr her- 
 self what rightfully belongs to each, must go down 
 into the dust of humility and self-abasement and 
 confess it "all" out to God, or else go down quick into 
 the nethermost hell. There is not a ray of hope, 
 there is not a glimmer of light, nor is there any other 
 way except this route, namely, "If we confess our 
 sins." It is either this, or a burning, hissing hell. 
 Come to the rugged cross of Calvary and come now. 
 Confess out and cease to trifle with God, His good- 
 ness, His mercy, His longsuffering and eternal real- 
 ities. Tell him all about it. Pour your soul out at 
 His loving feet, ask His forgiveness and swear 
 eternal fidelity to Him, His truth. His cause, His work 
 and the advancement of His kingdom. Don't play. 
 Don't waste any time, but get down to business and 
 he will take you on board the gospel ship of Zion, for 
 He has said, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are 
 
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 heavy laden and I will give you rest." Matt. 11:28. 
 Here is a fountain of peace and rest and joy for your 
 sin-sick soul. 
 
 3. Bible repeatance means the forsaking of all 
 sin. "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the un- 
 righteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto 
 the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him: and to 
 our God, for He will abundantly pardon." Isa. 55:7. 
 It is not enough to be sorry for sin, and even to con- 
 fess sin, (albeit these are the first steps,) but one 
 must go> farther than this if pardon is to be granted 
 and divine favor secured. Indeed the above Scrip- 
 ture settles the question beyond the possibility of a 
 cavil, that you must go out of the sinning business, 
 forsake it and leave it world without end, before God 
 even promises to save. It is not until after "the 
 wicked forsakes his way and the unrighteous man hi& 
 thoughts" and "returns unto the Lord", that He 
 promises to "have mercy upon him" and "abundant- 
 ly pardon" him. The wicked have but one way and 
 that "is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the 
 end thereof are the ways of death". Prov. 14:12. He 
 is on the broad guaged palace car route to the lake of 
 fire and brimstone. He hastens on toward hell, with 
 the momentum of a cyclone, when suddenly he is 
 checked by Divine power and made to feel, recognize 
 and understand his lost condition. He longs for God, 
 for Divine favor, for pardon and for salvation. He 
 
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 stops suddenly, faces about, retraces his steps, and, 
 like the prodigal son, returns to the Father's house 
 where there is "bread enough and to spare". The 
 Father sees him. has compassion upon him, runs to 
 meet him, falls upon his neck, presses the kiss of 
 pardon on his lips, receives and welcomes him back 
 into the family circle, clothes him with the "best 
 robe", gives him the golden ring of divine love, places 
 upon his feet the silver sandals of His grace, pre- 
 pares the great feast by killing the "fatted calf", 
 thus fulfilling the Scripture; "Wherefore come out 
 from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, 
 and touch not the unclean thing: and [ will receive 
 you, and be a Father unto you. and ye shall be my 
 sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." 
 2 Cor. 6:17,18. 
 
 4. Bible repentance means to take the back track 
 and make restitution. "And Zaccheus, stood and 
 said unto the Lord: Behold, Lord, the half of my goods 
 I give to the poor: and if I have taken any thing from 
 any man by false accusation, I restore him four fold." 
 Luke 19:8. In these days of swift, appalling apostasy 
 there are very few unsaved people, who when they 
 set out to find God and salvation, do not have more 
 or less restitution to make in order to obtain the cov- 
 eted blessing. Injured parties must be sought and 
 found, either by letter or in person, and their for- 
 giveness asked; deep, humilating confession must be 
 
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 made, and wrongs made right. Stolen articles are 
 either to be returned , or their value in money to be 
 payed, c Old debts, bills, etc., must be looked after, 
 and settled, and a general cleaning up on all lines must 
 take place. This is not a pleasant task but it is God's 
 line and. must be taken, or else the one seeking sal- 
 vation is sure to meet with ignominous defeat and 
 soul disaster. And let it be remembered there is no 
 appeal from this radical Bible line, It is this or hell. 
 Heaven is cheap at any price. If you will take the 
 track, pay the price, and dig to the bottom, God will 
 deliver the goods to your address. Take this line 
 and there can be no defeat, no failure, and no soul- 
 wrecking disaster. There are not enough men on 
 earth, nor devils in hell to keep you from getting the 
 real genuine, heart felt experience. The might and 
 strength of the Lord is pledged to see you through. 
 If you have a godly sorrow for sins, if you have con- 
 fessed all your sins, if you have forsaken all your 
 sins, and if you have taken the back track and made 
 restitution, then listen to this sweet promise: "And 
 Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to 
 this house." Luke 19:9. "Son thy sins are forgiven 
 thee." Mark 2:5. Beautiful message. Delightful 
 information. Sweet words, undescribable peace, har- 
 mony, concord, salvation and joy. Amen. 
 
Chapter IV". 
 FAITH AND REGENERATION. 
 
 "Thyfaifli hath made thee whole," Mark 10:52. "Re- 
 pent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins 1x1 ay be 
 blotted out," Acts 3:19. 
 
 In the last chapter we had conviction and re- 
 pentance. Bible repentance puts one on believing 
 ground for pardon, just as the end of ~ a complete 
 ^consecration puts the Christian believer on believing 
 ground for purity, or entire sanctification. We are 
 justified by faith, ("Therefore being justified by 
 faith",) and ''Without faith it is impossible to please 
 Him: for he that cometh'to Cod must believe that He 
 is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently 
 seek Him," Heb. 11:6. "Faith is the substance [i. e., 
 the ground or confidence] of things hoped for, the 
 
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 evidence of things not seen," Heb. 12:1. Hence if 
 you have a saving faith you have both the substance, 
 or ground, or confidence of the thing hoped for, and 
 the evidence of the thing not seen. The Greek word 
 in this passage is elegchos, and means a proof, a con- 
 viction, a sure persuasion. Hence, a saving aith, 
 which is the gift of God, (See Eph. 2:8) is a proof, a 
 conviction, and a sure persuasion that, both the 
 thing hoped for, and the thing not seen are yours. 
 And this faith, or proof, or conviction, or sure per- 
 suasion is not rooted and grounded in what men 
 have thought, or believed or taught, but in the un. 
 changeable, irrefutable, and eternal promises of 
 God, Who has said, "Him that cometh to Me I will 
 in no wise cast out," John 6:37. Hallelujah to the 
 Lamb." Faith is no more perfect until every doubt is 
 eliminated, than the heart, the seat of the affections, 
 is pure, until the last taiut of inborn, innate, original 
 depravity has been cleansed and washed away by 
 the second application of the precious blood of the 
 Pet Lamb of dark Calvary. And let it be remem- 
 bered that the saving faith of which we speak, is 
 neither the faith of a devil, ("The devils believe and 
 tremble") nor yet a head faith, but it is a heart faith, 
 for it is written, that, "With the heart man believeth 
 unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession 
 
FAITH AND REGENERATION. 41. 
 
 is made unto salvation," Rom. 10:10. Look up and 
 accept Him as your Saviour. 
 
 The principles of faith of which we speak are 
 set forth in the following verse of Scripture : "These 
 all died in faith, [Greek "According to the faith"] 
 not having received the promises, but having seen 
 them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and em- 
 braced them, and confessed that they were strangers 
 and pilgrims on the earth," Heb. 11:13. Here are 
 three things. 1. They, having seen the promises 
 "afar off" were "persuaded" that they were true. 
 2. They "embraced them", that is, they threw them- 
 selves recklessly out upon them, and placed implicit 
 confidence in them. 3. They confessed them, that is, 
 their utmost confidence in them. 
 
 Now, whoever you may be, and whatever it is 
 you desire from the hand of God, whether it be par- 
 don or regeneration or sanctification or the healing 
 of your body, etc,, you must follow the same line. 
 You must be persuaded that the premises of God 
 (They touch every possible emergency and need that 
 can come into your life during your probationary 
 state.) are absolutely true. In the next case you 
 must embrace them, i. e., throw yourself recklessly 
 out upon them, without a mental reservation and trust 
 them world without end. Then the next step is to 
 confess them and your utmost confidence in the God 
 
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 Who made them, and gave them, to a poor lost world. 
 Continue to hold on to God and the Holy Spirit will 
 seal the promise upon your heart, and faith will sieze 
 it, as with iron hooks, until all hell cannot shake you 
 loose. Such a faith as this, if you are a sinner seek- 
 ing the divine favor, and pardon from all your sins, 
 will sweep you through the impenetrable hedge of 
 sin into the beautiful plains of regeneration, or con- 
 version. But at this point the question arises, What 
 is conversion, or regeneration? And what are some 
 of the features and characteristics of this God-given 
 life planted in the human soul. 
 
 1. Regeneration, as set forth in the Scriptures is 
 a real heart-felt, Spirit-recognized, and God-given 
 experience. "Not by works of righteousness which 
 we have done, but according to His mercy He saved 
 us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewing 
 of the Holy Ghost," Titus 3:5. The Greek word in 
 this passage is imlingenesia, and means new birth, re- 
 generation, the restoration of the perfect state of 
 things, etc. Just as you entered into and became a 
 member of your earthly father's family, by the pro- 
 cess of natural generation and physical birth, so you 
 enter into and become a member of your heavenly 
 Father's family, i. e., the family of God, by the pro- 
 cess of spiritual regeneration and the new spiritual 
 birth. Hence, the language of Jesus : "Except a man 
 
FAITH AND REGENERATION. 43. 
 
 be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter 
 into the kingdom of God," John 3:5. And, just as 
 the physical birth is accompanied by physical life, 
 and the new born babe manifests that life, so the new 
 spiritual birth is accompanied by spiritual lire and its 
 manifestations. Hence, the language: "And we are 
 His witnesses of these things: and so is also the Holy 
 Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey Kim", 
 Acts 5: 32. This God- given life planted in the dead 
 soul (All unconverted people are as dead as a devil 
 in hell, until quickened by divine power) causes its 
 possesser to love the thing3 once hated, and hate the 
 things once loved. Hence, the language : "Therefore 
 if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature : old 
 things are passed away; behold, all things are be* 
 come new," 2 Cor. 5:17. Hallelujah to the Lamb. 
 He is a new creation, yea, a new created spiritual 
 sun, created to shine on uncreated spiritual worlds 
 and warm them into being. Glory to God forever. 
 This experience is real. You know when you receiv- 
 ed it, where you received it, how you received it, and 
 what you have, for it is written: "The Spirit itself 
 beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the chil- 
 dren of God," Rom. 8:16. And again, "We know 
 [Hallelujah!] that we have passed from death unto 
 life, because we love the brethren," 1 John 3:14. 
 
 2. The regenerated life is replete with joy and 
 
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 gladness. There is abundant proof of this statement, 
 both in the Bible and human testimony. When Phil- 
 ip, that red hot, Pentecost evangelist went down to 
 the old heathen city of Samaria, (The Samaritans 
 were not only heathens, but irreconcilable enemies of 
 the Jews) and preached Christ unto them until "un- 
 clean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of 
 many that were possessed", a mighty Pentecost re- 
 vival broke out and the record says: "There was 
 great joy in that city," Acts 8:8. And what else 
 could be expected but a marked manifestation of di- 
 vine joy and gladness in the countenance, speech, 
 conduct and life of that poor, lost, hell -bound soul 
 whose strong chains of slavery have just been broken 
 by the omnipotent Saviour, and whose broken and 
 contrite spirit has been set at liberty and healed? A 
 new life enters into him, a bright light floods his soul, 
 a beautiful spiritual world opens up before him, and a 
 cloud burst of divine power and glory breaks in upon 
 him and he, like Thomas, cries: "My Lord and my 
 God." With the Psalmist David, the sweet singer of 
 Israel, he can truthfully say; "Thou hast put glad- 
 ness in my heart". Do you wonder that he laughs, 
 cries, sings, shouts, claps his hands for joy, etc., 
 when he knows, better than anything in this world, 
 that all the past is under the precious blood of Jesus, 
 that he stands personally clean before God and man, 
 
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 and that ho holds a clear title to a mansion in the 
 beautiful Eden above? Glory. 
 
 3. The experience of regeneration puts resurrec- 
 tion life and power into its possessor. It turns him 
 from the tomb of Jesus, whither he has gone with 
 "sweet spices" to "anoint Him", and he finds himself 
 running in the opposite direction to meet his risen 
 Lord. Being "reconciled to God", which is the 
 starting point in this new God -given life, and being 
 "in Christ", which is the sphere of his spiritual ac- 
 tivity, and living not to himself, but "unto Him" 
 which is the New Object, and feeling the resurrection 
 life of Him "Who died for them, and rose again", 
 which is the power that sustains this wonderful life, 
 he has some conception of that beautiful Scripture 
 which says : "That the life also of Jesus might be 
 made manifest in our body," 2 Cor. 4:10. Hallelu- 
 jah to the Lambc The "lost is found", the "dead is 
 alive" and there is joy among the angels. "Like- 
 wise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of 
 the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth," 
 Luke 15:10. His life is in God and from God, for in 
 Him he lives, and moves and has his being. This is 
 rich, sweet, blessed, glorious and delightful, but it is 
 not all that God has for us. 
 
 4. This beautiful experience lifts one above this 
 poor lost world and sin. "Whosoever is born of 
 
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 God doth not commit sin ; for His seed remaineth in 
 him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God," 
 1 John 3:9. "Whosoever abideth in Him sinneth 
 not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen Him, neither 
 known Him." 1 John 3:6. There are two kinds of 
 religion in the world, God's and the devil's. God's 
 religion, or salvation, as seen in the above Scripture, 
 saves us from all of our sins: while the devil's relig- 
 ion, which is a sinning religion, leaves us in our sins, 
 freezing us to death in this world, and burning us to 
 death in the next. The popular preacher, who stands 
 in the modern pulpit, declares with stentorian voice 
 that no man ever did, or ever will be able to live with- 
 out sin, and thus proves beyond the possibility of a 
 caviJ, that he is a child of hell, a prophet of Baal, a 
 devil's preacher, and on a bee line to hell fire, for it 
 is written, that, "He that committeth sin is of the 
 devil," 1 John 3:8. And again we read, "Whoso- 
 ever committeth sin is the servant of sin," John 8^*34. 
 But blessed be God, there is a glorious deliverance 
 from all sin, and it is experienced in the first work of 
 grace, or the "new birth". And this was Christ's 
 mission into the world, for the inspired record says, 
 "For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, 
 that He might destroy the works of the devil," 1 John 
 3:8. "And in this the children of God are manifest, 
 and the children of the devil," 1 John 3:10. In what? 
 
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 In the question of sinning and Jiving without sin. 
 Please read the narrative in 1 John 3:6 to 10. To 
 manifest is to reveal. Hence in this they are reveal- 
 ed, namely, God's children live without sin, while the 
 devil's children live in sin. Reader, to which class 
 do you belong? 
 
Chapter V. 
 CONSECRATION AND SANCTIFICATION. 
 
 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, present your 
 
 bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God," etc. 
 "And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly." Horn. 12:1. 
 1 Thess. 5:23. 
 
 There are various theories, opinions, notions, 
 ideas, etc., afloat as touching the question of personal 
 consecration. There are some who laugh and hoot 
 at the idea and tell us there is no such thing at all. 
 There is another class who declare with stentorian 
 voice that when they bowed at the feet of Jesus and 
 asked Him for pardon s ? and salvation, they consecrated 
 their all to^God. S'ill another class hold it to be true 
 that you must consecrate every day, during your 
 probationary state, and that this almost endless task 
 will not cease this side the grave. None of these are 
 correct nor in harmony with the Scriptures, and the 
 sacred writings. 
 
 The act of personal, practical consecration is by 
 no means unknown in the Scriptures. In the eighth 
 chapter of the book of Lev. we have the account of 
 
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 the consecration of Aaron and his sons. As touching 
 this consecration, five things are worthy of note: 
 The first was the publicity of the affair. "Gather 
 thou all the congregation together," etc. Verse s. 
 The next act was washing them with water. "And 
 Moses brought Aaron and bis sons, and washed them 
 with water." Verso 6. This act was followed by the 
 placing of the linen garments upon them. "Now 
 Moses brought Aaron's sons and put coats upon 
 them," etc. Verse 13. The fourth step was to anoint 
 Aaron and his sons with the holy anointing oil. "'And 
 he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and 
 anointed him, to sanctify him." Verse 12. See verse 
 30 for the anointing of his sons. The last act was 
 putting on the blood. "And Moses took of the 
 anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the 
 altar and sprinkled it upon Aaron and upon his gar- 
 ments, and upon his sons and upon his sons' garments 
 with him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, 
 and his sons, and his sons' garments with him." 
 Verse 30. All this is significient. The publicity of 
 their consecration brings out the truth that we can- 
 not be consecrated to God, and His service, and sanc- 
 tified wholly, with out the fact being made known 
 and published abroad. There washing is a beautiful 
 illustration of the "washing of regeneration". Being 
 clothed with the "holy garments" is a figure of the 
 white robe of holiness that God gives to those who 
 
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 consecrate themselves and all they have to him. 
 Anointing them with the "anointing oil", which is an 
 emblem of the HoJy Spirit, is an illustration oi receiv- 
 ing the Holy Ghost. The putting on of the blood, is 
 a strong figure of the second application of the blood 
 of Jesus to the heart of the consecrated believer, 
 which cleanses from "all sin". 
 
 The fact that tne poor, lost sinner has nothing to 
 consecrate, and does not do so when he conies to God 
 to be saved, and that the saved believer does not con- 
 secrate every day, but makes an eternal offering of 
 himself and all he has to God, is also set forth in the 
 same incident. Aaron's sons were not sinners, but 
 saved believers before their consecration. For ifc is 
 a settled fact that they were taken "from among the 
 children of Israel", (See Ex. 28:1.) to serve in this 
 capacity. And it is also an evident truth that these 
 same children of Israel, from whom they were select- 
 ed, were God's people; for God had chosen them, 
 prior to this, and had led them out of the land of 
 Egypt across the Red Sea even to Mount Sinai. A& 
 soon as they reached "the desert of Sinai", God said 
 to Moses: "Ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me 
 above all people." Ex. 19:5. Hence you see that it 
 is as clear as the noonday sun, that these men of 
 whom we are speaking, were God's faithful, willing, 
 obedient children prior to their consecration. There- 
 fore we conclude that as "there is no respect of per- 
 
CONSECRATION AND SANCTIPICATION. 51. 
 
 sons with God", He requires all His children to con- 
 secrate themselves, and all they have to Him, in order 
 that He may sanctify them wholly, even as He did in 
 this case with His ancient people. And as touching 
 the question of their personal consecration, it was 
 not for an hour, nor for a day, nor was it to be repeat- 
 ed every day, but it was for the entire period of their 
 life, once and for all. So the record teaches, and so 
 we believe, 
 
 But before we leave the question of personal, and 
 practical consecration let us look at one or two New 
 Testament Scriptures. Here is one of them: "Yield 
 yourselves unto God, as those who are alive from the 
 dead, and your members as instruments of right- 
 eousness unto God." Rom. 6:13. It is of special im- 
 portance that we should notice that the people who 
 are here addressed are "those who are alive from 
 the dead". Hence they are not sinners, for the un- 
 saved are "dead in trespasses and sins", but these 
 are "alive from the dead", i. e., they are truly con- 
 verted, or regenerated. And yet these very same 
 people are commanded to "yield unto God". Hence 
 Bible consecration is a yielding of yourself unto God. 
 Turn over to God your name, talents, time, reputa- 
 tion, property, family, good works, future, all you 
 know, all you don't know, ail you ever will know, all 
 you have, all you haven't, and all you ever will have. 
 In a word, place your will, as touching everything in 
 
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 your life, yea, everything that could possibly come 
 up during your probationary state, upon the Divine 
 altar and the fire will fall. God is after your will. 
 He wants it. When He gets chat He has all there is 
 of you. 
 
 Here is another Scripture: "I beseech you, there- 
 fore, brethren by the mercies of God that ye present 
 your bodies a living sacrifice, ... .that ye may prove 
 what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of 
 God." Rom. 12:1,2. The people here addressed are 
 "brethren", i. e., saved believers, and not "sinners". 
 They are to present their "bodies a living sacrifice" 
 (not a dead sacrifice), and this is to be done that they 
 may prove the "perfect will of God". And what is 
 His will? "This is the will of God, even your sancti- 
 fication." 1 Thess. 4:3. Hence you see that the 
 Scriptures forever settle it, that, first we repent and 
 believe and are regenerated. Then we consecrate 
 ourselves and all we have to God, and believe, 
 ("Sanctified by faith that is in me." Acts 26:18.) and 
 are sanctified wholly. Bat what is sanctification? 
 And what does it do for the child of God? 
 
 1. Itcleanseth. No individual lives any length 
 of time in the regenerated life who does not make the 
 discovery that there is something left in the heart 
 that ought not to be there. This something is car- 
 nality, and the following are some of its traits: A 
 secret spirit of pride. An important spirit. An inde- 
 
CONSECRATION AND SANCTIFICATION. 53. 
 
 pendent spirit. A real Love of human praise. The 
 stirrings and uprisings of anger and impatience. 
 A touchy, sensitive spirit. A disposition to resent, 
 and to retaliate when reproved, corrected, or con- 
 tradicted. Sharp heated flings and stinging state- 
 ments hurled at another. A self-willed disposition. 
 A stubborn, un teachable spirit. Harsh, sarcastic, 
 caustic expressions. A spirit that commands and 
 drives. A disposition to find fault, criticise, and to 
 pick flaws when set aside and unnoticed. A peevish, 
 fretful spirit. A man-fearing spirit. A fear of 
 faces. A fear of failure. A fear of persecution, pov- 
 erty, sickness, death, and the judgment. A jealous 
 disposition. A secret disposition of envy shut up in 
 your own soul. A disposition to speak of the faults, 
 blunders, mistakes, errors, failures, a' id idiosyncra- 
 cies, rather than the gifts and virtues of those more 
 talented and appreciated than yourself. A spirit of 
 doubt and discouragement in times of pressure and 
 opposition. A lack of quietness and confidence. A 
 disposition to worry, fret, stew, and complain in the 
 midst of pain, or poverty, or at the dispensation 
 of divine providence. A lack of concern for poor 
 lost souls. A dryness, indifference, and a lack of 
 power with God and man, These are a few of the 
 many traits of carnality. But glory to Jesus, all this 
 unclean brood, with evil thoughts and evil tempers, 
 etc.. is taken out when we are sanctified wholly, be- 
 
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 cause "the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth 
 us from all sin.'' 1 John 1 :7. The Psalmist David 
 asks the question, "Who shall ascend into the hill of 
 the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?" Here 
 is the answer: "He that hath clean hands and a pure 
 heart." Psa. 24:3, 4. Clean, Glory to God! Clean in 
 thought, word, and in act; clean in your home life, 
 private life, public life, business life, and church life. 
 This is sanctification. This is holiness. Do you en- 
 joy it? Have you the goods in stock? 
 
 2. The next step after the cleansing is the fill- 
 ing. "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, 
 and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit 
 gave them utterance." Acts 2:4. They were filled, 
 not with theory, nor doctrine, nor the lying tradi- 
 tions of men, but with the personal Holy Ghost. They 
 were filled, not with selfishness, nor narrowness, nor 
 envy, nor bitterness, but with the Holy Ghost. They 
 were filled, not with strife, nor jealousy, nor division, 
 nor hatred, nor malice, but with God, the Holy Ghost. 
 They were filled, not with Methodism, nor Presby- 
 terianism. nor Congregationalism, nor Campbellism, 
 nor sectarianism; they were simply filled with the 
 Holy Ghost. He possessed their entire being, and 
 taking His seat upon the throne of their heart, be- 
 gan to reign without a rival. It was brue in their 
 case, and it must be so in ours. And now that the 
 personal Holy Ghost has entered the purified heart 
 
CONSECRATION AND SANCT1FICATION. 55. 
 
 to abide, live, and rule forever, He continues to pour 
 into the cleansed heart the sweet, tender, melting 
 love of God, for it is written. "The love of God is 
 shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which, 
 is given unto us. " Rom. 5:5. Hallelujah to the Lamb! 
 
 3. The next step in the divine catalogue is the 
 empowering for service. Cleansing, filling, and em- 
 powering, is the divine order. "But ye shall receive 
 power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you." 
 Acts 1:8. The revised version reads, "But ye shall 
 receive power when the Holy Ghost is come upon 
 you." You often hear people say, "1 am sanctified, 
 but I have uot received the Holy Ghost." "I am 
 sanctified, but I have not received the enduement of 
 power.". What an absurdity! Consummate fool- 
 ishness! The above Scripture knocks this human 
 theory clear out beyond the North pole. If you 
 are sanctified wholly, you have the Holy Ghost, 
 and if you have the Holy Ghost you have the power, 
 for God positively declares that you receive the pow- 
 er when the Holy Ghost comes upon you. It was so 
 in the case of the disciples, (Read the 2nd chapter of 
 Acts for proof tnat they received power when they 
 received the Holy Ghost,) and it must be true in our 
 case. Away with the lying traditions of men, and 
 let us stick to the blessed Bible. 
 
 But what about this power? All kinds of no- 
 tions, ideas, and human theories are afloat as to what 
 
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 it really is. Some think it is intellectuality, hypnot- 
 ism, (the power of mind over mind) emotionalism, 
 shouting, screaming, hollowing, running, jumping, 
 etc. Others hold it to be true, that it is the power of 
 numbers, and the power of wealth, and the power of 
 brains. But all these human theories are incorrect, 
 and misleading. It is no proof that simply because 
 men have any, or all of the things mentioned above, 
 that they are in possession of this power. Because 
 history proves that men have had all of these things, 
 and yet none of this power. This power is divine; it 
 is unearthly, that is, it does not spring up from the 
 earth; nor is it of the earth; (albeit it is for those 
 who dwell upon the earth) nor is it to be secured 
 from man, nor yet given by him to his feliowmen. It 
 is of God, and from God. He alone can give it. To 
 have this power means to have the Holy Spirit, to 
 know the Spirit, to hear the Spirit, and to obey the 
 Spirit. With this power you are a success, but with- 
 out it you are doomed to everlasting defeat. He, the 
 Holy Ghost will give you power to do right, power to 
 reject wrong, power to sing, pray, testify, exhort, 
 and preach; power over your own self, power over 
 your enemies, yea, power with God and men. With 
 the apostle Paul we feel like saying, "Thanks be un- 
 to God for His unspeakable gift." 
 
Chapter VI. 
 DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 
 
 "The rich man also died and was buried, and in hell he 
 lift up his eyes being in torments." Luke 16:23. "The judg- 
 ment was set, and the books were opened," Dan. 7:10. 
 
 God is the author of all that is pure, holy and 
 good. He is the source of all wisdom, knowledge and 
 understanding. He is the center of all light, life and 
 consciousness. He made this Bible and He made it 
 just right. It is true that He committed the task of 
 writing it, to men, but these '"holy men of God spake 
 as they were moved by the Holy Ghost," 2 Peter 1:21. 
 This precious Book bears the stamp of its Maker, is 
 divine in its origin and makeup, is a part of the di- 
 vine mind and will, as revealed to man, and is true, 
 absolutely true. It tells of a holy God, a holy heav- 
 en, and how we may lead a holy life. It also tells of 
 a lurid, liquid * 'lake of fire and brimstone", which 
 has been "prepared for the devil and his angels", 
 and which will be the final abode of all the individ- 
 uals, families, nations and races of mankind who 
 "know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our 
 
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 Lord Jesus Christ," 2 Thess. 1 :8. 
 
 While it is a lamentable fact that in these days of 
 swift, appalling apostasy, the Bible doctrine of a lit- 
 eral hell, for all the finally impenitent is scarcely ever 
 preached from the modern pulpit, and by the greater 
 part of both the preachers and people is hooted and 
 jeered at, yet it does not change the solemn, God- 
 given truth that there is A hell, an awful hell, an 
 indescribable hell. Just as certain as there is a 
 God, a blessed Jesus, a delightful Holy Ghost, a 
 beautiful heaven and "a holy people", so there is an 
 Awful hell, a "bottomless pit", a "lake of fire and 
 brimstone". God says so, and He knows. "Let 
 God be true, but every man a liar", Rom. 3:4. This 
 blessed Bible from Genesis, the beginning, to Rev- 
 elation, the end, is full of awful curses for the diso- 
 bedient, and blessings for the obedient. To those 
 who repent and turn away from their sins and the 
 evil of their doings, it holds out the most delightful, 
 sweet, and precious promises of joy, peace, rest and 
 happiness, both in the life which now is, and in that 
 which is to come. But to the lawless, the disobedi- 
 ent, and the impenitent sinner there is but one thing 
 held before him, and that is a boiling, hissing, lurid, 
 liquid "lake of fire and brimstone", yea, "a certain 
 fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, 
 which shall devour the adversaries," Heb. 10:27. 
 The awful judgments of God against the evil doer, 
 
DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 59. 
 
 and the hell fire and brimstone that awaits the finally 
 impenitent, thunders from the Decalogue, roars 
 through the prophe3ies, rumbles in the] writings of 
 the four evangelists, flashes in the Epistles, and pours 
 forth from the Revelation, 
 
 Hell is just the opposite to heaven. Hell is be- 
 neath us, heaven is above us. According to the 
 teaching of the Scripture, both places are definitely 
 located. The one is pure, clean, holy, beautiful,, 
 bright, peaceful, joyous, delightful, rich, sweet, and 
 full of glory : while the other is vile, corrupt, filthy, 
 dark, frightful, hideous, and where sorrow, sadness, 
 misery, woe, and pain hold sway: yea, where "there 
 shall be weeping and gnashiug of teeth" God de- 
 clares there is such a place and He certainly knows. 
 He further states that the unfortunate, unhappy in- 
 habitants of those fiery regions "shall drink of the 
 wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out with- 
 out mixture into the cup of his indignation : and he 
 shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the 
 presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of 
 the Lamb; and the smoke of their torment ascendeth 
 up forever and ever: and they have no rest day nor 
 night, who worship the beast and his image, and 
 whosoever receiveth the mark of his name," Rev. 
 14:10,11. Note the expression "forever and ever". 
 In Rev. 15:7, we have the same expression "forever 
 and ever". In the first passage it refers to the dura- 
 
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 tion of the punishment of the wicked : while in the 
 second it shows the eternity of God. The Greek in 
 the first passage is eis ainos aionon, while in the sec- 
 ond it is eis toys aionos ton aionon, the articles toys and 
 ton being omitted in the first passage but understood, 
 and translated the same in each. 
 
 The above combination of Greek, words means 
 
 UNTO THE AGES OF THE AGES, Or THE ETERNITIES OF THE 
 
 eternities, or forever and ever. Hence you can 
 see at a glance, that the punishment of the wicked in 
 hell is co- eternal with the existence of God. There is 
 absolutely no escape from this truth. How long does 
 God live? Answer, unto the ages of the ages, or 
 
 THE ETERNITIES OF THE ETERNITIES, Or FOREVER AND 
 
 ever. How long does their ' 'smoke of their torment'' 
 ascend? Answer, unto the ages of the ages, or 
 
 THE ETERNITIES OF THE ETERNITIES, Or FOREVER AND 
 
 ever. So the Bible teaches and so we believe. 
 Away with this devilish doctrine of the annihilation 
 of the wicked. Those who hold this devilish doctrine 
 to be true, are placed in a very embarrassing position, 
 for according to their theory, if the wicked are to be 
 annihilated, then the time must certainly come when 
 God Himself will cease to exist, for He positively de- 
 clares in the above Scriptures that the one exists as 
 long as the other. If He lives forever, and the in- 
 spired record says He does, then the wicked burn in 
 hell foreyer, and they do. He says so, and He 
 
DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 61. 
 
 knows. It is much better to believe God than the 
 lying traditions of men. "God is not a man that He 
 should lie, nor the son of man that He should repent". 
 
 Death, hell and the judgment Let us take a 
 peep at some of the judgments of God and see if He 
 hates sin or not. Behold the first pair, Father Adam 
 and Mother Eve, They believed the devil, disobeyed 
 God's holy law and commandment, fell into sin and 
 hid "amongst the trees of the garden". God ap- 
 peared on the scene, searched them out, they made 
 their confession and the three-fold curse fell, the first 
 on the woman, the second on the serpent and the 
 third on the man ; and the once happy pair were 
 driven from the beautiful garden, and both the 
 "cherubims" and the "flaming sword which turned 
 every way to keep the way of the tree of life" ap- 
 peared. 
 
 Cain, the first murderer slew his brother Abel, 
 and quickly the withering, blighting, anathema of 
 God Almighty fell upon his unprotected head: "A 
 fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth." 
 The poor man overwhelmed with sorrow and grief 
 cried: "My punishment is greater than I can bear". 
 Sin is the most costly thing in all the universe. 
 God help us to flee from it as we would from the hiss- 
 ing viper that is coiled and ready to sting us to death. 
 
 The antedeluvian world became vile, corrupt,, 
 depraved, debauched, and reached a climax in re- 
 
62. TRUMPET BLASTS. 
 
 jecting God and His truth. God, in condescending 
 mercy, instructed Noah to build an ark and preach 
 righteousness, truth and holiness to the outlaws. 
 He obeyed, entered the ark with his wife, his three 
 sons and their wives, "and the Lord shut him in." 
 The clouds gathered, the thunder roared, the light- 
 ning flashed, "the windows of heaven were opened", 
 and "all the fountains of the great deep were broken 
 up", and divine castigation and retribution poured 
 forth in a stream of unmitigated, indescribable 
 wrath upon the unprotected heads of those hood- 
 winked, deluded thousands, and only eight (Those in 
 the ark) were left to tell the tale; all the rest going 
 down quick into hell, except the little infants, who, of 
 course were saved. 
 
 The men of Sodom and Gomorrah were "wicked 
 and sinners before the Lord exceedingly.*' Their 
 sin became "very grievous," so much so that the 
 Lord, after He had sent Lot, his wife, and his two 
 daughters out of the city, (His wife became a pillar 
 of salt because she looked back) "rained upon Sodom 
 and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the 
 Lord out of heaven," and another multitude of souls 
 went wailing into the nethermost hell. 
 
 Koran, Dathan, and Abiram three anti-holiness 
 preachers (See Numbers 16.) incited a rebellion 
 against Moses and Aaron, and two hundred and fifty 
 princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, 
 
DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 63. 
 
 men of renown, joined them. These rebels offered 
 strange incense before the Lord. God said to Moses 
 and Aaron, "Separate yourselves from among this 
 congregation, that I id ay consume them in a mo- 
 ment. " They obeyed God, and the earth opened her 
 mouth, and these wicked men, they and all that ap- 
 pertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and 
 the earth closed upon them. This fearful castigation 
 and divine retribution was followed by another 
 dreadful judgment. "And there came out a fire 
 from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and 
 fifty men that offered incense." Appalling scene! 
 Frightful spectacle! Another awful judgment fell 
 upon the congregation. The next day they declared 
 that Moses and Aaron had slain the Lord's people. 
 The whole congregation of the people rose up against 
 these men of God. and the wrath of a sin-avenging 
 God burst forth upon them like a mighty cyclone of 
 fire. Aaron "stood between the dead and living," 
 and made "an atonement" for them; but before "the 
 plague was stayed" 14,000 were destroyed, 
 
 These are only a few of the many swift and aw- 
 ful judgments of God against wicked, rebellious sin- 
 ners, as set forth in the book of God. but they are 
 enough to show that God hates sin, and His way of 
 dealing with those who trample His great mercies 
 under their unhallowed feet, and refuse to love, and 
 obey Him. If it should be asked whv God has dealt 
 
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 thus with the disobedient, the unthankful, and the 
 unholy, as set forth in these Bible pictures, here is 
 the answer: "For if God spared not the angels that 
 sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered 
 them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto 
 judgment: and spared not the old world, but saved 
 Noah, the eighth person, a preacher of righteous- 
 ness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the un- 
 godly; and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah 
 into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow, 
 making them [mark this language] an ensample unto 
 those that after should live ungodly.'" 2 Pet. 2:4-6. 
 
 But before leaving this part of the subject, let 
 me call your attention to some modern judgments of 
 God. Just a few years ago a tidal wave swept the 
 Isle of Java, and 4,000 sinners were swept into eter- 
 nity, to stand in the presence of a thrice holy God, 
 and be judged by Him, "with whom there is no vari- 
 ableness neither shadow of turning." Our warship, 
 Wateree was anchored in the haibor of Iquique, 
 Peru. Suddenly there was an earthquake, a tidal 
 wave, a volcanic eruption, and the ship was carried 
 by the wall of waters one mile in shore, and not a 
 man was hurt. But later when the wave returned 
 to the sea it swept 10,000 souls into eternity. What 
 an awful judgmeat! Who denies it? Reader, there 
 is a God, a heaven, and an awful helJ. Take heed! 
 Beware! Look out, or you will drop into the pit of 
 everlasting burnings. 
 
Chapter VII. 
 
 DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT, 
 Continued. 
 
 Last year (1905) I passed through Johnstown Pa. 
 where God sent one of His literal and awful judg- 
 ments. That undescribable flood came down upon 
 that God-defying, Christ-rejecting city with an almost 
 unlimited, irresistible vengeance, and fury, and in 
 one hour swept five hundred sinners into eternity. 
 That awf ul judgment was a literal hell of water. The 
 houses, with their frightened inhabitants, went 
 crashing down the Conemaugh River, and were hurled 
 against the piers of the Pennsylvania railroad 
 bridge, only to be shattered to pieces, and to burn 
 them alive. These poor victims, caught in this death 
 trap, perished by thousands, by fire and by water, 
 while inhuman monsters, called men, ravished dead 
 women, mutilated, robbed, and murdered the wound- 
 ed and dying to get money and jewels from their 
 victims. It became necessary to call out the State 
 troops to save the wounded, the dying, the burning 
 victims, to protect the living from the inhuman treat- 
 ment of demon-posessed men, and to give the dead a 
 decent burial. What was this but a literal hell? And 
 God sent it. But He sent them warning before He 
 sent this awful judgment. The secular papers did 
 
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 not tell all the truth. God sent one of His faithful 
 servants who spent two weeks on the streets of that 
 wicked city, preaching the everlasting gospel of the 
 Son of God, and warning the people of the awful 
 judgment that God would send, unless they repented 
 and turned away from their sins. How did they re- 
 ceive the message and the God-sent messenger? Did 
 they, like the old ancient heathen city of Nineveh, 
 repent, sitting in sackcloth and ashes? Nay, would 
 to God they had. But instead of this, they scoffed, 
 jeered, laughed, hooted, etc., and then took God's 
 messenger and locked him up in jail. But God al- 
 ways looks after His own, and protects His own 
 interests. Although the jail was in the path of the 
 severe judgment, and everything went down around 
 it, yet it stood and the prisoner was safe. After the 
 awful judgment of lire and water had wrought its 
 fearful havoc of wreck and ruin, they brought the 
 preacher out and turned him loose, and let him go, 
 finding, when it was too late, that his message was 
 only too true. Wake up sinner or you, too, will soon 
 find your Johnstown flood of death, hell and the 
 judgment. 
 
 A few years ago a company of lawless, Sabbath 
 breakers went out on lake Pepin, on the waters of the 
 upper Mississippi, and spent the time in drinking, 
 carousing, and desecrating God's holy day. God 
 showed His disapproval by coming down out of the 
 
DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 67. 
 
 sky and twisting a black vortex of His wrath. The 
 cyclone struck the gay, giddy, lawless party, over- 
 turned the vessel and they were drowned. But there 
 were in that company, a /ew strong men who climbed 
 upon the overturned hull to save their lives. God 
 saw it. The funnel shaped cloud stopped, returned 
 a second time and completed the awful judgment of 
 an angry God against those wicked sinners, and not 
 a single person was left to tell the tale. Another 
 illustration of death, hell and the judgment. Look 
 out sinner or you will go wailing into the "bottom- 
 less pit". 
 
 In 1886 the state of Wisconsin, by Legislative 
 enactment, expelled the word of God from the public 
 schools, repealed the Prohibitory Law, turned the 
 whiskey murder-mills loose for revenue, and turned 
 the state over to this hell on wheels. They spit on 
 God's blessed book, and He sent His awful judgment. 
 During the summer of that year a circus, which is 
 one of the open doors to hell, came to New Richmond, 
 Wisconsin, and the gay, giddy crowd came to see the 
 show. God twisted a vortex of His vengeance, and 
 sent a raging cyclone, which is a puff of His wrath, 
 and cut a swath through that town, wounding or kill- 
 ing one hundred and fifty sinners. Those who were 
 present testify that it was a literal hell on earth. 
 Sinner friend, traveler to the judgment bar of God, 
 take heed, and remember that your day of mercy 
 
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 will soon be gone forever, and you, too, will be 
 cut off without hope and without mercy. A soldier 
 passed through the Civil War and came home with- 
 out a scratch. Many times God had spoken to him 
 about the eternal interests of his blood-bought, judg- 
 ment-bound, and eternity-destined soul. But he 
 spurned the callings of God and continued in his 
 course of sin. One day while walking down the street, 
 as he passed a brick building, where the brick layers 
 were at work, a brick fell, struck him on the head 
 and he was instantly killed, and went down quick 
 into the pit. Do you see it? His day of grace was 
 past. The space of time allotted to him to repent was 
 gone. "And I gave her space to repent of her forni- 
 cation; and she repented not." Rev. 2:1. 
 
 In 1887 God sent His judgment upon Jamestown, 
 North Dakota. At that time there were two brew- 
 eries in the town. A few saints got together and be- 
 gan to cry to God for deliverance from the whiskey 
 traffic. God answered their prayers by sending a 
 whirling cyclone, a vortex of His wrath, straight 
 through the city. No one was hurt, but the brewery 
 was blown into pieces, and dumped into the James 
 river. The following year the other brewery was 
 burned, and two years later, or in 1889, the licensed 
 party was defeated, and the prohibitory law went 
 into effect. Our own God answers prayer. He and 
 His truth are marching on. Help us praise Him. "Cry 
 
DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 69. 
 
 out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion : for great is 
 the holy one of Israel in the midst of thee, " Isa. 12:6. 
 
 A few years ago Hinckley, Minn, was destroyed 
 by a forest fire and hundreds perished, and were 
 swept into eternity without God and without the nec- 
 essary preparation of heart to meet Him in peace. 
 But before this awful judgment of the literal, materiaL 
 hell-lire swept them off the probationary stage of 
 action, God gave them warning, and a chance to be 
 saved. On Sabbath preceeding the destruction of 
 that place, five different pastors, without connivance, 
 preached from the text, "prepare to meet thy God". 
 Like Sodom, they were warned, and then rejecting 
 God, His messengers, and His message, they, like 
 the ancient city, were destroyed. Another proof 
 that God's judgments are'in all the earth. Reader, 
 wake up before you drop into hell fire and brim- 
 stone. 
 
 One of the most awful, swift and terrible judg- 
 ments of modern times, was the utter destruction of 
 St. Pierre on the island of Martinique, by the vol- 
 canic eruption of Mount Pelee, which took place at 
 seven fifty o'clock on the morning of May 8th, 1902. 
 An eye-witness gives the following graphic descrip- 
 tion of Mount Pelee, and its harvest of death. He 
 says: "I saw Sb. Pierre destroyed. It was blotted 
 out by one great flash of fire. Nearly 40,000 persons 
 were all killed at once. Out of eighteen vessels lying 
 
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 in the roads only one, the British Steamship Rod- 
 dam, escaped, and she, I hear, lost more than half on 
 board. It was a dying crew that took her out. 
 
 "Our boat s the Roraima, of the Quebec line, 
 arrived at St. Pierre early Thursday morning. For 
 hours before we entered the roadstead, we could see 
 names and smoke rising from Mount Pelee. No one 
 on board had any idea of danger. Captain G. T. 
 Muggah was on the bridge, and all hands got on deck 
 to see the show. 
 
 "The spectacle was magnificent. As we ap- 
 proached St. Pierre we could distinguish the rolling 
 and leaping of the red flames that belched from the 
 mountain in huge volumes and gushed high into the 
 sky. Enormous clouds of black smoke hung over the 
 volcano. 
 
 "When we anchored at St. Pierre I noticed the 
 cable steamship Grappler, the Roddam, three or four 
 American schooners and a number of Italian and 
 Norwegian barks. The flames were then spurting 
 straight up in the air, now and then waving to one 
 side or the other for a moment and again leaping 
 suddenly higher up. 
 
 "There was a constant muffled roar. It was like 
 the biggest oil refinery in the world burning up on 
 the mountain top. There was a tremendous explo- 
 sion about 7:45 o'clock, soon after we got in. The 
 mountain w T as blown to pieces. There was no warn- 
 
DEATH, HELL AND THE JUDGMENT. 71. 
 
 ing. The side of the volcano was ripped out, and 
 there was hurled straight toward us a solid wall of 
 name. It sounded like thousands of cannon. 
 
 { 'The wave of fire was on us and over us like a 
 lightning flash. It was like a hurricane of fire. I saw 
 it strike the cable steam ship Grappler broad side 
 and capsize her. From end to end she burst into 
 flames and then sank. The fire rolled in mass straight 
 down St. Pierre and the shipping. The town vanish- 
 ed before our eyes and the air grew stifling hot, and 
 we were in the thick of it. 
 
 ' ! Whereever the mass of fire struck the sea the 
 water .boiled and sent up vast clouds of steam. The 
 sea was torn into huge whirlpools that careened to- 
 ward the open sea .... 
 
 "The blast of fire from the volcano lasted only a 
 few minutes. It shriveled and set fire to every thing 
 it touched. Thousands of casks of rum were stored 
 in St. Pierre and these were exploded by the terrific 
 heat. The burning rum ran in streams down every 
 street and out to the sea. This blazing rum set fire 
 to the Eoraima several times. Before the volcano 
 burst the landings of St. Pierre were crowded with 
 people. After the explosion not one human being 
 was seen on land. ' ? 
 
 What a withering, blighting judgment and what 
 a literal stream of hell fire and brimstone burst in 
 
72. TRUMPET BLASTS, 
 
 upon that doomed city, with its ten thousand beauti- 
 ful home,?, numerous factories, and more than thirty 
 thousand inhabitants. You say "how aw 7 ful". In- 
 deed. But did you know that before God sent this 
 dreadful judgment upon the inhabitants of this 
 wicked city, that He sent missionaries to preach Je- 
 sus to them and urged them to accept God as their 
 Father, Jesus as their Saviour, and the Holy Ghost 
 as their Comforter? But what did they do? They 
 rejected the messengers and the message, and it is 
 reported that after the missionaries left, they cruci- 
 fied a pig in derision of God, His ministers and His 
 truth. And now what? They spit on God's book, 
 and He baptized them with hell-fire and brimstone, 
 and in five minutes more than 30,000 hutnan souls 
 were swept into eternity, and no doubt nearly all of 
 them went wailing down into a devil's hell. Another 
 illustration of how God deals with sin, and rebellious 
 sinners. God in mercy wake us up. 
 
 But the time would fail me to tell of the Galves- 
 ton disaster, the San-Francisco earthquake, the earth- 
 quake in Chili, South America, etc. and the thous- 
 ands of lives lost and the millions of dollars worth of 
 property destroyed. Enough has been said, and 
 brought to view to show that God hates sin. His 
 judgments are in all the earth, and sin — well, He will 
 scald it in the burning vitriol of His wrath, and woe 
 to the man or woman with whom sin is found. 
 
CHAPTER VII I. 
 A PEN SKETCH OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 
 
 I was born in Tuscola, Douglas County, 111., 
 Oct. 5. 1873. When only two years of age I was 
 kicked on my right temple, by a rough shod horse, 
 and received an ugly wound, which came very near 
 ending my life. Father hastened for the doctor, 
 who lived a distance of five miles. During this time 
 I lay and bled profusely. When they returned, the 
 physician told my parents he had no hope for my 
 life, and thought it out of the question for me to re- 
 cover. But our own God, in infinite mercy, willed it 
 otherwise. However, the scar I received from that 
 wound will go with me to ihe grave, unless Jesus 
 should come for His Bride before I fall on sleep, in 
 which event I fully expect to meet Him and the 
 blood washed throng in the air. 
 
 Shortly after the above incident my father lost 
 his team, cow, etc, by going security for another 
 man, and we were turned out into the streets, by 
 the officers, and had nothing of value left. An uncle 
 of mine who lived in Rice County, Kansas loaned my 
 father money enough to pay his and mother's way to 
 that new country. We spent two full years in those 
 parts and passed through many severe trials and 
 hardships of various kinds. 
 
74. TRUMPET BLASTS. 
 
 Our next move was to Kingman County, Kansas, 
 where father took one hundred and sixty acres of 
 land, located twelve miles south west of Kingman 
 City, Kansas. During the years we spent there, we 
 had an overflowing experience of trials, difficulties, 
 afflictions, perplexities and hardships, all of which 
 are common to the frontier life. The first winter we 
 froze our feet; that winter we had nothing to burn, 
 in the way of fuel, but sunflowers, blue joint grass, 
 tumble weeds, etc. Then came the living on corn 
 meal stirred up with water, (we were thankful for 
 both the meal and the water) passing through a fear- 
 ful cyclone, which destroyed our house, carrying 
 away our bedding, clothing, etc., and leaving us 
 nearly naked, and many other things of which space 
 forbids the mention. 
 
 At this time father and mother were members of 
 the U. B. denomination, but knew very little about 
 God and salvation. However, in the providence of 
 God, he sent some Holy Ghost preachers into our 
 community, and my mother and afterwards my 
 father were beautifully saved and powerfully sancti- 
 fied. For days after father's sanctincation he had 
 but little desire for food and sleep, and spent his 
 time in shouting the praises of God (he is more de- 
 monstrative than his son,) This so annoyed the 
 neighbors that they held a meeting, decided he had 
 gone crazy, and thought it would be wise to take 
 
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 75. 
 
 some steps toward sending him away to a place of 
 safety. But a sister (God bless her soul if she is 
 still alive) whose heart God had touched, arose and 
 declared she would not, for her right arm, lift her 
 voice against him. She then closed by saying she 
 wished, that not only herself, but all the rest were 
 just as crazy, (if this they so desired to call it) as 
 was my father. So the idea of sending him away 
 was abandoned and he went on his way rejoicing. 
 
 It was during this revival tide which lasted for a 
 considerable length of time, both in our immediate 
 neighborhood, and in an adjoining one live miles 
 away, that God touched my heart, by His divine 
 omnipotent Spirit, and I was powerfully saved from 
 all my sins. I was just eleven years old. Although 
 the persecutions were severe from my school mates 
 (at one time 1 left the school because of them) God , 
 helped me to testify, exhort and warn the people 
 of their danger, blessed my labor of love and gave 
 me some fruit. To Father, Son and Holy Ghost be 
 all the glory. 
 
 Soon after my conversion father had another 
 misfortune and practically lost his farm. He then 
 moved to Mead County, Kansas and filed on another 
 one hundred and sixty acres of land, twelve miles 
 north west of Englewood. Because of continued 
 failures in the crops, w 7 e were compelled to w T ork by 
 the day, part of the time, to make a living for the 
 
76. TRUMPET BLASTS. 
 
 family. When I was thirteen years of age we went 
 to work on the grade of the Rock Island railroad five 
 miles west of Mead Center, Kansas. Here I began 
 to associate with bad company, listened to the devil, 
 grieved the Spirit of God, disobeyed the holy com- 
 mandment, backslid, lost my sweet experience, ran 
 away from home, broke my mother's heart, and 
 started on a Hee line for hell. For nine years I trav- 
 eled north, east, west and south seeking rest, but 
 finding none. Five different times I went into busi- 
 ness for myself, and for a time it seemed that [ 
 would be successful. But as suddenly as I entered, 
 as quickly :I would lose all I had. It was during 
 these times I would become desperate, give vent to 
 blasphemous utterances, and declare I was the most 
 unfortunate and wretched man on earth. Then I 
 took to drinking, (only moderately however) to gamb- 
 ling, to smoking, etc., and tried to drown my God- 
 given convictions. One time I went about fifteen 
 hundred miles from my home, and hoped by so doing 
 to escape the influence of my mother's prayers. But 
 it was useless, for in my quiet moments an inward 
 voice would say: "Arthur, your mother is still pray- 
 ing for you." Why was this? Ah, my mother had 
 hold of God and His promises, and there were others 
 who had hold of Him too. On one occasion when 
 father became discouraged, and doubted whether I 
 ever would be saved, mother's faith arose with the 
 
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 75. 
 
 test and she declared that she would live to see me 
 saved and hearjrne preach the Gospel. And she did. 
 She is yet alive and on the hallelujah line. Glory to 
 God for a mother's faith and prayer, Mothers, do 
 not be discouraged, but continue to hold on to Gocl 
 for your children. He will bring them in yet. 
 
 Time rolled on. Five successive failures in 
 crops, and father left that part of the country and 
 moved to Ford County, Kansas, six miles northeast 
 of Dodge City. He spent two years there and then 
 moved to Ft. Scott, Kansas. It was in this city dur- 
 ing the spring of 1895 that Major Cole, of New York 
 City, opened a large tabernacle meeting, I was in a 
 little town twelve miles east of Jefferson City, Mo., 
 when I received an urgent letter fiom my father, 
 telling me to come home at once, and accept a posi- 
 tion that he had secured for me with a Cincinnati 
 firm. On reaching my home I found the town con- 
 siderably stirred over the BIG POPULAR REVIV- 
 AL, and my people and relatives were speaking of it 
 anon and again. 
 
 I was not a church goer, and was proud of the 
 fact that I had not been in a religious service for 
 nearly one year. After repeated, urgent invitations, 
 I consented to go to the meeting and see for myself. 
 But I got in such trouble in that service, that I left 
 in a rage, declaring in my own heart '.hat I never 
 would return. Several days passed before I did 
 
78. TRUMPET BLASTS. 
 
 return. During the interval between my first and 
 second visit to the tabernacle meeting, my father 
 unconsciously threw a harpoon into my proud soul, 
 that stuck like a clinched nail in a board and refused 
 to come out. It was on Sabbath afternoon. As I 
 came up the back way, I noticed him sitting on the 
 back porch with pencil and paper in hand, busily 
 engaged in writing. I asked him what he was doing. 
 He answered: "Writing a letter to Jesus for my 
 children." This went into my heart like a dagger, 
 and I turned and left the place as quickly as I had 
 come. "Writing a letter to Jesus for my children", 
 continued to ring in my soul and I could not get 
 away from it. Nor did I get rid of it until I found 
 "Him of Whom Moses and the prophets did write." 
 I made an effort to leave the city, but was prov- 
 identially hindered. My last day in the devil's ser- 
 vice, was spent at a base ball game in open wicked- 
 ness and outbroken rebellion against God and His 
 truth. On the evening of this day, after a heated 
 discussion wiuh my cousin's wife, who told me that 
 if I did not think enough of my mother, aunt, her 
 and other relatives to go with them that night to the 
 meeting; (I was to leave the next day) I was meaner 
 than dirt, I consented to go. When we reached the 
 tabernacle, she started down the aisle, and told me 
 to follow. It seemed to me that every eye was turn- 
 ed on us. I obeyed, and she led me within three or 
 
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 79. 
 
 four seats of the front. I do not remember the text, 
 nor anything of interest that the preacher said 
 But when the invitation was given, she took me by 
 the hand with tears streaming dowa her face, and 
 trembling like a leaf shaken by the wind, she said, 
 "Arthur, if you do not surrender, I will die." Just 
 then the pastor of the Congregational denomination 
 laid his hand upon my shoulder, and began to urge 
 me to yield to my God-given convictions. I remain- 
 ed firm, stubborn and unmoved. After some time 
 he spoke to me. in substance as follows: "If you 
 leave this town tomorrow an unsaved man, in two 
 weeks your lifeless body will be brought back here 
 for burial, and your poor soul will be lost. 5 ' Those 
 words were driven by the Holy Ghost into the deep 
 jungles of my poor, hungry, starving soul, and an 
 inward voice, in substance, whispered: "Now or nev- 
 er. This is your last call. Heaven or hell, which 
 will you choose?" I hesitated, and God made me to 
 understand as clear as the noonday sun, that unless 
 I yielded then and there, I would cross the dead line, 
 and seal my eternal doom. I said to the Holy Ghost, 
 "I yield", and started to the altar, assisted by the 
 good brother, who kept me from falling as I stag- 
 gered toward the penitent form. 
 
 A hard battle ensued. The pains of hell siezed 
 me and I saw myself going down to death and ruin. 
 The workers around the altar tried to persuade me 
 
80. TRUMPET BLASTS. 
 
 that I was saved, but I knew it was a lie. The evang- 
 elist made an effort on the same line, which so stirred 
 the hell that was in me, that I became very angry, 
 arose to my feet, gave him a severe tongue lashing, 
 but felt no better. Soon after, however, while stand- 
 ing there on my feet, I became so desperately in ear- 
 nest about the salvation of my soul, that I lost sight 
 of the evangelist, the large congregation, and all my 
 surroundings and began to call mightily on God to 
 save me from a devil's hell. The Lord helped my 
 faith to arise on the wings of earnest, importunate, 
 persistent prayer, until I could say from the depths of 
 my trembling soul: "I believe that Jesus saves me 
 now." Instantly, heaven opened, the burden rolled 
 down the hill of Difficulty, over the embankment of 
 Unbelief, and tumbled into the river of Oblivion, and 
 my soul was bathed in a sea of unearthly light. I 
 eaped to the platform, (it would seat about two hun- 
 dred) turned toward the audience and began to wit- 
 ness to this wonderful salvation. For a number of 
 years the fountain of tears in my soul had been dry, 
 and I had been unable to weep. While telling the 
 people what God had done for me, and the delight 
 and joy of this sweet story of the cross, my eyes fell 
 upon my precious mother, who was then seated just 
 in front of the altar. Instantly my heart was broken, 
 my spirit melted, and the great deep of my soul was 
 broken up. I rushed toward her, embraced her, and 
 
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 81. 
 
 we baptized each other in our tears, which gushed 
 from our eyes like falling rain. Oh, what a meeting, 
 oh, what a time of rejoicing. Words are of no avail 
 here. The prayers, tears, groanings, and longings of 
 nine long years, which she and others had offered in 
 my behalf, were suddenly answered. Words cannot 
 describe, nor pen portray, the delight, glory, joy and 
 satisfaction that filled our hearts. Hallelujah to the 
 Lamb. The dead was alive, and the lost was found. 
 This was on the night of May 20, 1895. All glory be 
 to Jesus, Amen. 
 
 I continued to testify, exhort, preach, etc., from 
 house to house and sell goods for the firm in Cincin- 
 nati, Ohio, for about three months, when in the city 
 of Olathe, Kansas, with only twenty-five cents in my 
 pocket, I knelt, at night, with another brother, under 
 an electric light on the public square, and settled it 
 with God that I would cut loose, at once, from every 
 worldly pursuit and give my entire time to the Gospel 
 ministry. This I did, 
 
 In the fall of this year I entered the Baptist Col- 
 lege at Ottawa, Kansas, but continued to preach the 
 Gospel on the Sabbath, at two points, one four miles 
 south, and the other four miles northwest of the city. 
 Winter came on and I had nothing suitable, in the 
 way of clothing, to keep me warm. Nor did I have 
 any money with which to buy. The students in the 
 school told me I was a fool to preach for those con- 
 gregations, when they neglected to look after my 
 temporal needs. But I had promised ^ God that I 
 would tell no one about my "needs", except Him 
 
82. TRUMPET BLASTS. 
 
 alone, and I was determined to keep my promise, 
 even if it took my life. One of God's dear children, 
 (she is now my mother-in-law) at whose house I was 
 staying, and working for my board, gave me her 
 shawl to use for an overcoat, and through rain, mud, 
 snow and storm J continued to go and preach the 
 everlasting Gospel. One evening while I was engag- 
 ed in prayer in my room, I was strongly impressed to 
 make a list of the articles I needed, and as well as I 
 remember the following is the list : One ten dollar 
 overcoat; two suits of woolen underwear; one pair of 
 shoes; one pair of overshoes ; and two outside shirts. 
 Having made out the list, I presented it to the Lord, 
 and an inward voice whispered in my soul that each 
 article would be delivered, and I offered thanks for 
 the same. 
 
 My continued exposure caused me to take a se- 
 vere cold, and in December I took very sick, went 
 down to death's door and lay on the bed of languish- 
 ing for three months, in which time I threw up an ul- 
 cer from the pit of my stomach the size of a dollar, 
 caused from my past drinking of intoxicating bever* 
 ages, and hemorrhages set in. During this sickness 
 my bill of goods (the clothing, etc.,) was delivered at 
 my bedside, except the shoes and shirts which were 
 brought in before I took sick. And all this in answer 
 to prayer. Hallelujah to our own God. He does 
 answer prayer. "But my God shall supply all your 
 need according to His riches in glory by Christ Je- 
 sus," Phil. 4:19. "I have been young, and now am 
 old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor 
 his seed begging bread," Ps. 37:25. 
 
Chapter IX. 
 A PEN SKETCH OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE, 
 
 CONTINUED. 
 
 On the 16th clay of December. 1595, while lying 
 on this bed of affliction, 1 entered into the solemn, 
 God-given institution of holy wedlock, when I was 
 not expected to live but a few hours. But the ever 
 blessed God ordered it otherwise, spared my life, and 
 raised me up. However, my condition of health was 
 such that I found it necessary to put myself on a 
 plain diet of corn meal, oatmeal, graham, etc., which 
 I followed for one year. But during this, and the 
 two following years, wife and 1 continued our labor 
 of love in the evangelistic field, preaching to thous- 
 ands, and seeing hundreds of souls blessedly saved. 
 To Father, Son, and Holy Spirit be ail the glory. 
 
 In August, 1898, I attended a Methodist camp- 
 meeting at Wichita, Kansas, held by Bro. Carradine, 
 of the South Methodist denomination, and God put 
 me under unearthly conviction for holiness, notwith- 
 standing the fact that I had honestly professed it for 
 three years. As soon as I saw that I had been de- 
 ceived, I set about at once to seek the -pearl of great 
 
84. TRUMPET BLASTS. 
 
 price." For three weeks, lacking one day, I groan- 
 ed and cried to God for purity of heart. A few days 
 after my eyes were opened to my great need, I re- 
 ceived a telegram from my wife, stating that my 
 brother who had been saved under my ministry, and 
 powerfully sanctified about three weeks after his 
 conversion, was at the point of death, and for me to 
 come on the first train. I hastened home, Ft. Scott, 
 Kansas, and reached his bedside just in time to close 
 his eyes in death. Up to within two or three days of 
 his departure, he would, crawl out of his bed, kneel 
 down, and ask God to heal him. But God saw that 
 it was best to take him, hence we bow in humble 
 submission to His divine will. He was only eighteen 
 years of age, and was just entering the ministry. In 
 one short year he had committed to memory about 
 forty chapters of the Bible, and had outlined about a 
 half hundred sermons. As he drove a delivery 
 wagon during the day, he did this work at night and 
 on the Sabbath days. "We have no doubt he went to 
 live with Jesus, and by the help of God we are de- 
 termined to meet him in the bright, beautiful Eden 
 above. Oh, God, help us to be true to the end. 
 
 After we had laid him away in the "Evergreen" 
 cemetery,, to await the resurrection morn, I opened 
 a meeting, under the Holy Ghost, in the Methodist 
 Protestant church building, on the corner of Sixth 
 and Holbrook sts.. Ft. Scott, Kansas, and continued 
 
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 85. 
 
 to preach, and to seek for the great deliverance. On 
 the night of September 2, 1893, at fifteen minutes 
 past nine o'clock in the evening, I was kneeling in 
 the pulpit, with four or five at the altar, crying to 
 God to send the holy fire down upon us. While 
 kneeling there I received one of those celestial tele- 
 grams from the sky, which in substance was as fol- 
 lows: "You have been pleading for nearly three 
 weeks for the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Now get 
 ready to receive it, for it is on the way." Turning to 
 the pastor, 1 said, "It is coming in a double train 
 load." Like a flash of lightning the holy fire struck 
 me, and I was laid out prostrate on the floor, and 
 unable to get up. Oh, such fire, such heavenly fire! 
 And oh, what a time of suffering! I felt the fire run- 
 ning to the ends of my toes and fingers. If my body 
 had been in a furnace of literal fire I certainly could 
 not have suffered more intensely than I did. I made 
 repeated efforts to get upon my feet, but it was use- 
 less. I thought I was burning to death, and told the 
 astonished onlookers so. This lasted, as well as I re- 
 member, for about one hoar, when suddenly the 
 suffering ceased, and the blessed,* personal Holy 
 Ghost filled every avenue of my purified soul. Wave 
 after wave of divine glory rolled over and through 
 my cleansed heart, and it seemed to me that it was 
 written in fiames of living fire, "This is sanctifica- 
 tion." I leaped to my feet, witnessing to this mighty 
 
86. TRUMPET BLASTS. 
 
 baptism of the Holy Ghost. The Comforter had 
 come, aud my soul was satisfied. Hallelujah to the 
 Lamb! 
 
 Immediately after my sanctification we went to 
 our first pastoral charge. There were three preach- 
 ing points on the circuit, and during the first six 
 months I held meetings at each of these places, and 
 souls were both saved and sanctified. Bless God 
 for giving the devil a black eye. The next spring, 
 1899, I entered the Methodist college at Winfield, 
 Kans., and served this same charge during that year. 
 The circuit being seventy miles away, it was neces- 
 sary for me to leave home on Saturday morning, and 
 could not get back until Monday night about eight 
 o'clock. During this year I traveled about five 
 thousand miles, and paid the railroad companies one 
 hundred dollars. This, with tuition, books, rent, and 
 feeding three of us made our expenses heavy. Quite 
 a number of people on the circuit withdrew their 
 support because I wouid not cease to preach the 
 Bible doctrine of holiness and hell. We here extend 
 thanks and appreciation to the few who did stand by 
 the truth, and helped us. The opposers said, "We'll 
 starve him out." And at times it looked as if they 
 would be successful. Many times I have left wife 
 and. the little babe (we had but one child then) with 
 scarcely anything to eat, and have her meet me on 
 my return Monday evening, and ask me if I had re- 
 
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 87. 
 
 ceivecl any money to buy food, etc., and not a few 
 times I was compelled to answer: "No, dear, I only 
 received enough to pay my tare home." Those were 
 times of sifting and severe testing. One week the 
 three of us and another man Jived on thirty-five cents. 
 And mark you, wife was nursing the child at that 
 time. But she stood nobly by me through it all, and 
 did not murmur nor complain. When we were in 
 such destitute circumstances, and some of the peo- 
 ple on the circuit told me they would raise the salary, 
 and pay me. if I would stop preaching holiness and 
 hell; it is the custom of denominations to pay a sah 
 ary. but I had nothing to do with that, as I told them 
 I was neither preaching for them, nor for money, 
 but to them, and for God. My wife said, i! Do not 
 compromise the Gospel, but preach it clean and 
 straight, and if we are compelled to go to the poor 
 house, we'll go together." Those words were a 
 great comfort to me. Blessed be God forever! 
 
 During those times of severe testing the Lord 
 gave me a dream, or vision of the second advent of 
 Jesus, which I believe He would have related in as 
 few vords as possible. The night he gave it to me I 
 
 was in the village of A . In the dream or vision 1 
 
 saw the hearens covered with black clouds, and it 
 seemed clear to all that a heavy storm was approach- 
 ing the town. Another Bro. minister and myself, 
 (I thought we were engaged in a tabernacle meeting 
 
88. TRUMPET BLASTS. 
 
 in the village) were going from the tent in a north- 
 western direction and facing the approaching storm. 
 The people of the town were greatly frightened and 
 running in different directions for shelter. Neither 
 of us were alarmed, albeit the appearance of the 
 storm was enough to strike terror to the strongest 
 heart, especially if one was in an unsaved condition. 
 We moved steadily onward toward the storm which 
 became more dense and dark. Suddenly the heaven 
 opened in the far "^distance, and I saw our own blessed 
 Jesus riding in a beautiful chariot and coming to- 
 ward us in«the clouds of heaven, with the heavenly 
 host, and with power and great glory. Instantly I 
 was caught away from the earth and my friend, and 
 I found myself flying toward the coming host with 
 great rapidity. The distance between us seemed to 
 be very great. On and on I swept toward the object 
 of my love, and on and on He came toward me. At 
 last we met, and throwing my arms around His neck 
 I embraced Him, and poured out my gratitude at His 
 feet. Just then I discovered that we were settling 
 down into a very large enclosure with high massive 
 walls on every side. As near as I could tell the mul- 
 titude of people who were on the out side seemed to 
 be making a desperate effort to climb over the walls 
 and get on the inside. Only one, a young man, so far 
 as I could tell, was successful. At this juncture the 
 scene changed. A throne appeared, the judgment 
 
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 89. 
 
 was set and I saw our blessed Lord sitting on the 
 judgment seat of justice. The first one to appear be- 
 fore that indescribable tribunal of justice, was the 
 young man whom I had seen climb over the wall. 
 The act was real! Awful!! Indescribable!!! Jesus 
 read the death sentence, which declared that his fu- 
 ture home throughout on coming eternities, was to 
 be u the lake of fire burning with brimstone". As 
 soon as the sentence was read, the mother of this 
 young man, who was standing near by, sprang for- 
 ward and in substance said: "I object to that sen- 
 tence. That is my boy", Jesus, the great Judge, 
 looked her straight in the face and said : u Madam I 
 give you to understand that I am the Master of this 
 house." She said no more. 
 
 Again the scene changed. This poor, unfortun- 
 ate young man was turned over into the hands of 
 God's officers and they led him away. I looked to the 
 right and lo, I discovered a great precipice at the 
 bottom of which was an indescribable lake of lire 
 and brimstone. I saw them go toward this fiery 
 prison. When they reached its edge, they threw 
 the young man over and down, down, down he went 
 screaming, crying, groaning, moaning, begging, and 
 pleading, but all to no avail. The cries of that poor, 
 doomed soul awoke me. I opened my eyes, took in 
 my surroundings in a moment, of time, and found 1 
 was still on the earth. Bat the memory of that 
 
90. TRUMPET BLASTS. 
 
 vision, with its bright and dark side has never left 
 me. God grant that, not only your unworthy ser- 
 vant, but all who read these lines, may in the last 
 day, be found, not on the left, but on the right hand 
 of the impartial Judge, "Who will render to every 
 man according to his deeds." 
 
 My second appointment was the Maple City cir- 
 cuit, twenty six miles southeast of Winfield Kansas. 
 Here 1 spent about one year, when God led me defi- 
 nitely to sever my connections with the Methodist 
 denomination, He showed me that sectarianism is 
 the curse of this and other countries; that it divides 
 families, communities, states and nations; that the 
 666 warring sects are all man made; that He Himself 
 has a Church, and has named it "The Church of 
 God"; that He is its creator, builder, supporter, and 
 law giver; that it is a divinely organized body; that 
 we are born into it, and when sanctified are made 
 holy members of it; that it is not a Legislative, but 
 an Executive body; that it is one and only one; that 
 it is composed of saved believers; and that it has 
 order, ordinances, elders and deacons. And besides 
 giving me light on this one divine Church, He has so 
 arranged it in His divine providence that I should be 
 identified with a body of: people who see eye to eye 
 on this very precious truth. And although others 
 have not the light and do not see it, yet we recognize 
 every converted man and woman throughout the 
 
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. 91. 
 
 world, regardless of name, order, color, race etc., as 
 our brothers and sisters in the Lord. We do not 
 consider that we are "it", the "Church of God", to 
 the exclusion of all others, but we do hold that we are 
 in "it", i, e, in the "Church of God". Amen. A 
 thousand blessings on the entire family of God. Hal- 
 lelujah to the Lamb forever and ever. 
 
 But I must bid you adieu. If yon have received 
 any help in the perusal of these few feeble lines, 
 p]ease give God ail the glory. Are you saved? Are 
 you sanctified? Are you on your way to the bright, 
 beautiful Eden above? Will you meet us in that 
 beautiful land "Where the wicked cease from troub- 
 ling and the weary are at rest"? 
 
 THE END. 
 
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MAR 6 1907