I recently received from a native of Central America a solemn letter, from which I copy the following extract: ― “... Very early one morning two men were on the seashore working. In the midst of their work it began to rain, and they both at once ran to the shelter of a little-shed nearby. One of the men was twenty-one years of age, and the other was forty-nine. The elder went inside the shed for shelter, the younger one stood leaning against the door post, facing the direction from whence the weather was coming―they were both there waiting for the rain to cease. Suddenly a flash of lightning illumined the scene, and when it passed the young man in the doorway ley dead―he had been struck by lightning and killed instantly. The other man inside was also struck, and rendered unconscious; when he recovered his senses, he called to his comrade, and discovered he was dead. The whole town was amazed at the incident.” Dead in a moment!
Men today boldly affirm there is no hell. It was only yesterday I was told by a man he was all right. I found he was resting upon a so-called “straight life.”
Is there one reading this who is anxious to flee from the wrath to come? There is a way of escape. “Much more then, being now justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.” (Rom. 3:99What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin; (Romans 3:9).)
A. A. L.