Earnestness

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Rowland Hill, in an address to the people said,
"Because I am in earnest, men call me an enthusiast. When I first came into this part of the country, I was walking on yonder hill, and I saw a gravel-pit fall in and bury three human beings alive. I lifted up my voice and called for help so loud that I was heard in the town at a distance of nearly a mile. Help came and two of the sufferers were rescued. No one called me an enthusiast then, and when I see eternal destruction ready to fall on poor sinners, and to sink their souls into an eternal hell, and call on them to escape, shall I be called an enthusiast now? Nor I am no enthusiast in doing so, `I call on you aloud to fly for refuge to Jesus Christ, the One set before you in the Gospel."
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Acts 16:31.
"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.