Extract from a letter received by a Christian in Exeter:
“... I went to visit a blind Christian the other evening, and I read to her. She is full of the Lord, the Lord only: if you talk of anything else you can see she gets so restless. I read Doctor’s tract to her on “Eternal Punishment.” After I finished she said, “I would like to know that tract was going to be read in every pulpit on Sunday night — never mind about anything else being said, that would be quite enough. I wish you could push one in the Congregational minister’s house. He came in to see me the other day, because, you know, I used to go to his Church, and I said to him: You know, sir, your preaching about the Lord’s good life is very nice, but I never, never hear you speak of His death. You know, sir, His life could not save you and me; it is His death and blood shedding on the cross that alone can save us.”
The writer went on to say of this dear blind saint of God, “She is such a dear soul, so real, and such a testimony; she is so full of Christ that she puts me to shame.”
Editor’s Note―She would put many a Christian to shame today. They are humanizing our blessed Lord in tens of thousands of pulpits at home and abroad. Men and women are talking about the Saviour as if He were one of themselves. “A Good man and an example to others to be good. He was a Son of God, and we are all sons of God. We should take Him as our example, He was one of the best men who ever lived, etc.” This is the blasphemy of millions. They deny His Deity — they deny His atoning work — they deny His sacrificial sufferings, and His resurrection from among the dead. They deny that He is the Saviour of the lost. May God keep us faithful, so that we may bear witness for the Lord Jesus Christ as our only and all-sufficient Saviour. Never be ashamed of Him, but be proud to say in an unbelieving world:
I do believe, I will believe,
That Jesus died for me;
That on the Cross He shed His blood,
From sin to set me free.
Be glad to look up to heaven, and by faith, seeing Jesus exalted on the right hand of God, say: “I believe and am sure that Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God.” A day is coming for these unbelievers and blasphemers. St. Paul says: “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha (accursed at the Lord’s coming).” 1 Corinthians 16:2222If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha. (1 Corinthians 16:22). Again St. Paul says: “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so now I say again, “If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:88But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:8) and 9 verses.
Look, ye blasphemers, at these texts that write your condemnation in letters as of fire. Tremble, as you think of your doom, when you die in your awful sinning against the Holy One of God.
Where will you hide your dishonored heads when you stand before the Great White Throne (Rev. 20:11-1511And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. (Revelation 20:11‑15)) to be judged, and eternally sentenced to the Lake of Fire, by the One you have dared in your infamy to deny all His attributes and falsify His life and death. You perjurers of the Eternal Truth — the Everlasting Word — forswear your blasphemy at once, and low in the dust before Jehovah-Jesus say, “My Lord and my God.”
It is your only hope. You face now a Saviour or a Judge.