What is the absolute alternative, for a sinner, if Christ be not received? The dreary darkness of an eternal night, in which the only light is that shed by the lurid flame that is “never quenched;” the only companions sinners and devils as wretched as himself; and the only occupation vain regrets at the folly and unbelief that have landed him, for eternity, in a spot beyond the reach of the hand of God Himself. W. T. P. W.