ROWLAND HILL, in an address to the people of Wotton, said, "Because I am in earliest, 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? No! 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."
Messages of God’s Love 12/23/1934