By:
Edited by Heyman Wreford
WHILE spending a winter in Los Angeles (U.S.A.) some time ago I took a trolley-car one day to go to Pasadena.
Just before entering the car there had been an accident on the street, and two ladies in the seat ahead turned to inquire of me the particulars. This gave me the opportunity to hand them gospel tracts. They took them, and just glancing at them handed them back, and one of them said, “We have no use for these; we are Unitarians of the progressive order. We never were lost, and don’t need to be saved; that is old-time theology.”
I replied, “Well, I am sorry for you.”
One of them said, “Oh, you need not be. I will talk with you a thousand years from today; then you will see things differently.”
I answered, “If such a thing should be, a thousand years from today, it will be as the rich man talked with Abraham, with a great gulf between that will be impassable.”
They were so angry that they stopped the car and got off, and in passing one of them said, bitterly, “Well, you are a little fool!”
Alas, what vagaries of the depraved mind of man people will run away with. “Unitarians of the progressive order,” “never lost; don’t need to be saved!” How the devil, “the god of this world, hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” Willingly deceived by Satan, the great enemy of God and man. No fall of man!