Strangers, when they visit the “coalfields,” are often desirous of seeing how the mining operations are carried on, and for this purpose they go down with some of the miners into the coal-pits.
One day a gentleman was going down accompanied by a miner, who was to show him through the mine, and to elain the working of the different parts of it. This miner was a simple hearted and earnest Christian, and as they were let down into the darkness he was shocked at the language of the gentleman, who added an oath, or some blasphemous expression, to almost every sentence he uttered.
Down and down they went, when the gentleman said, “Do you think it is as far to hell as it is to the bottom?” “I don’t know, sir,” replied the miner, “how far it is to hell; but, judging from your language, I know that if the rope were to break you’d be there in less than a minute!”
Reader, how would it be with you if your “rope” were to break?