I had occasion to drive from C. to D. The driver, a, quiet, elderly man, born and raised in C., during our conversation about the things of the Lord, and in confirmation of my statements as to the carelessness and indifference displayed everywhere to eternal things, told me the following: "A young woman in C. was reprimanded by her mother for misconduct. She replied: `I shall do as I please, and I defy you or God Almighty to stop me.'
She was very shortly afterward taken ill, and in less than a month after uttering her dreadful defiance was a corpse.”
This incident is related with the hope that God may bless it to the awakening of some to abandon their willful thoughts, and turn to the One who loved them and gave Himself for them.