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GEORGE P>. KULE 
 
The Departed Lord 
 
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 By GEORGE B. KULP 
 
 Author of 
 
 "Calloused Knees/' "Nuggets of Gold" "King's 
 Allowance/' "Voice from E entity" etc. 
 
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 CONTENTS 
 
 I. The Departed Lord - 7 
 
 II. Masters of Circumstances- - - 43 
 
 r3„ III. Gather Not My Soul with Sinners - 41 
 
 IV. According to Work - - - - 56 
 
 V. Thus Saith the Lord- - - - 8j 
 
 VI. Practical Regeneration -•.. - - 102 
 
 VII. "HavingNo Hope" - .- - - 118 
 
 VIII. Purity and Power - - - - 139 
 
 IX. Be Ye Ready - - - • - - 155 
 
 X. Wrath Revealed - - - - 182 
 
 XI. Lying to God - - - - - 199 
 
 XII. The Second Death - 216 
 
 XIII. Dwell Deep - - - - - 232 
 
 XIV. Hell a Place and a State - - - 246 
 XV. After This - - - - 263 
 
 XVI. Three Wonderful Days - - - 297 
 
THE DEPARTED LORD 
 
 " The Lord was departed from Saul" ( i Sam. 
 18:12). 
 
 After preaching a sermon on The Judgment at 
 Steelton, Pa., one night, I gave the altar call, 
 earnestly exhorting the people to yield themselves 
 to God, and before I was through a woman 
 hastened up the aisle and threw herself down at 
 the altar and cried, "O God, give me one more 
 chance." She evidently realized in that meeting 
 at that time the Spirit was dealing with her for 
 the last time. I have a very deep conviction that 
 in every revival series of meetings where the 
 presence of the Spirit is so marked, and He is 
 rejected, there are souls that cross the dead line, 
 and their doom is irreversibly sealed. At Ander- 
 sonville prison, in Georgia, during the Civil War, 
 there was a Confederate prison in which were 
 confined some twenty thousand Union soldiers. 
 Sherman was making his march to the sea, and 
 every man who could be spared was called upon 
 
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8 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 to resist him and his army, until there were but 
 few to do guard duty at the prison, and there was 
 fear that the prisoners might make a break for 
 liberty. In order to hold them a line was drawn 
 inside the prison, and some yards from the stock- 
 ade, and the prisoners were informed that any 
 man coming to that line would be instantly shot, 
 and because some men were killed there it was 
 called the dead line. I believe there is a "dead 
 line" in every life. Dr. Alexander well expresses 
 it in these lines: 
 
 There is a time we know not when, 
 
 A place we know not where ; 
 That marks the destiny of man, 
 For glory or despair; 
 
 There is a line by us unseen, 
 
 That crosses every path, 
 The hidden boundry between 
 
 God's mercy and His wrath. 
 
 To pass that limit is to die — 
 
 To die as if by stealth; 
 It does not quench the beaming eye 
 
 Nor pale the glow of health. 
 
 The conscience may be still at ease, 
 
 The spirit light and gay ; 
 That which is pleasing still may please, 
 
 And care be thrust away. 
 
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 O where is this mysterious bourne 
 By which our path is crossed? 
 
 Beyond which God Himself hath sworn 
 That he who goes is lost. 
 
 How far may we go on in sin? 
 
 How long will God forbear? 
 Where does hope end ? and where begin 
 
 The confines of despair? 
 
 An answer from the skies is sent 
 
 Ye that from God depart 
 While it is called today y repent, 
 
 And harden not your heart. 
 
 My text tells us of a man who had crossed 
 the dead line and he knew it, and he knezv why. 
 He had repeatedly disobeyed God and did it 
 willfully. I challenge anyone to put their finger 
 on anything in this man's life that was immoral 
 or unclean. There is no record of his getting 
 drunk; he did not steal, nor lie, nor run off with 
 some other man's wife. He did not gamble, nor 
 get rich at other folks' expense; he simply did 
 what you are doing every day — he just disobeyed 
 God. I do not ask you to accept of the thought 
 that men cross the dead line and are as surely 
 damned as if they were in hell if I do not prove 
 it by the Word of God. I firmly believe what 
 
io THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 the articles of religion teach that any doctrine 
 that is not based upon more than one passage 
 of Scriptures we are not required to believe. But 
 give attention to the Word as I quote it. "Ephra- 
 im is joined to his idols, let him alone." "My 
 Spirit shall not always strive with man." "They 
 shall go with their flocks and their herds to seek 
 the Lord but He will not be found of them." 
 Israel in their hearts turned to go back into 
 Egypt, and God turned and gave them up, "Be- 
 cause I have called and ye have refused; I 
 stretched out my hand and no man regarded. 
 Because ye have set at nought all my counsel and 
 would none of my reproof I also will laugh at 
 your calamity; I will mock when your fear Com- 
 eth, when your fear cometh as desolation and 
 your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when 
 distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then 
 shall they call upon me but I will not answer; 
 they shall seek me early, but they shall not find 
 me, for that they hated knowledge, and did not 
 choose the fear of the Lord. They would none 
 of my counsel, they despised all my reproof." 
 Listen to the words of Jesus: "O Jerusalem, 
 Jerusalem, thou that stonest the prophets and 
 killest them that are sent unto thee, how often 
 would I have gathered thy children even as a 
 
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 hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, 
 but ye would not, behold your house is left unto 
 you desolate." 
 
 In our text the Holy Ghost makes record ot 
 a fact. "The Lord was departed from Saul," 
 and in this message to you I believe God would 
 have me give you facts. I do not come with 
 arguments, but just simple facts that are beyond 
 contradiction, like the text. I want to pile the 
 Blue Mountains on the Alleghenies, on top of 
 these the Rockies, and then the Alps and Appen- 
 ines, on these the Himalayas, and have you survey 
 them in the light of the eternity to come, and 
 act as an eternity bound soul should act— and 
 at once. I aim to give you facts, facts, facts 
 that ought to startle you into action at once. I 
 was called to draw up the will of a man who 
 was nearing eternity, and as I did so I saw he 
 was unsaved and little interested in spiritual 
 things. I asked God to help me say the right 
 thing at the right time. I visited him for five 
 weeks and talked and prayed and pointed him 
 to the only remedy for sin, the only Savior for 
 a sinner. As the end drew near I became more 
 and more interested and prayed, "O God, give 
 me something from Thy Word that will help 
 a dying man to find peace." I quoted the most 
 
12 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 precious passages as the Spirit brought them to 
 me, and he listened to me apparently much inter- 
 ested, but at last he opened his heart and said: 
 "When I was a young man nineteen years of 
 age, I worked in a machine shop in -Rhode Island, 
 and was surrounded by ungodly men who 
 sneered at the truth and at everything religious. 
 I had a Christian mother, but went contrary to 
 her teachings and imbibed the heresy of those 
 men, and now when you quote the Word as you 
 have done, what those men said comes up before 
 me." Then God gave me a passage that I did 
 not quote to this dying man, and it was this: 
 "The wicked are driven away in their wicked- 
 ness." He died without any hope; he had re- 
 jected the truth and God left him. I was in a 
 meeting once upon a time and saw a man with 
 the most pitiful expression on his face, showing 
 he was at least interested. I went to him and 
 talked to him of giving his heart to God, and 
 he said to me, "If I could only get back twenty- 
 four years." But you cannot reverse the wheels 
 of time; there is no road to yesterday; that time 
 with its opportunity had gone forever and as 
 far as his life had showed, God had gone with 
 it. Facts you know, not arguments. A mer- 
 chant who had no time for anything but business, 
 
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 who thought in numbers, dollars, dimes, cents, 
 who saw everything through his ledger and day- 
 book, had a good wife who spent much time 
 praying for him, and at last persuaded him to 
 go to a camp where she was during the meeting. 
 He came the last Sunday night and God, in an- 
 swer to that woman's prayers, put him under 
 awful conviction till he trembled, and forced to 
 decision, said No to God. In six weeks time he 
 was taken with his last sickness; friends prayed 
 with him, exhorted him to pray. His wife pled 
 with him, but while demons from the pit gath- 
 ered round the bed waiting to drag his naked 
 soul down to the home of the damned, he an- 
 swered all their entreaties by saying, "God left 
 me the last Sunday night at that camp meeting." 
 God was departed from that soul and he knew 
 why. I was in a meeting at a home camp in 
 Kansas and there was a woman who wanted to 
 give her heart to God and come to the camp, 
 but her friends who were opposed to the doc- 
 trines of holiness, kept her away. It was her 
 last call and she died in a few days, but her 
 friends could not save her; they had kept her 
 from God, but they could not snatch her from 
 the clutches of death. I was preaching in a 
 church in summer time, and the windows being 
 
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 up a woman in an adjoining house heard the 
 sermon, and heard Sunday after Sunday. God 
 put her under conviction. One Sunday night 
 she came to church and the Holy Ghost was 
 faithful to her, but she went home after saying 
 No to Him. That week she was taken sick, and 
 sat in her rocking chair saying, "I am lost ! I am 
 lost!" Some of the folks came to me and told 
 me of her condition, and I sent some Christian 
 ladies to see her and they talked to her of her 
 soul, and of the One who is mighty to save; 
 but all that woman would do was to sit in her 
 chair and rock to the sad refrain, "I am lost! I 
 am lost!" God was departed from her. 
 
 Facts and more facts. During a meeting in 
 which many young people were giving their 
 hearts to God, a young man was under deep con- 
 viction, and it continued till the meeting closed. 
 The last night the pastor went to him and said, 
 "George, give your heart to God tonight; this 
 is the last night of the meeting and the Spirit is 
 striving with you; yield tonight — yield now." He 
 was very thoughtful, delayed his answer as 
 though thinking. The pastor urged him further, 
 but at last he said, "Not tonight." The meeting 
 closed ; he went to his home. The next morning 
 his mother called him, "Come to breakfast, son; 
 
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 we are all ready to sit down." But he did not 
 come. Again the mother went to the stairs and 
 called, "George, get up, come to your breakfast; 
 we are nearly through." He did not come. His 
 younger brother said, "I will bring him." And 
 taking a cane from the corner he ran upstairs, 
 poked George in the side and said, "Get up you 
 lazy bones!" but there was no move; he poked 
 him again and then dropped the cane in fear 
 and ran down stairs saying, "Mother, I poked 
 him twice and he did not move!" The mother, 
 smitten with fear ran upstairs to find that George, 
 who had the night before said no to God, was 
 compelled to go when death called him. He had 
 his last opportunity the night before, and mur- 
 dered it. 
 
 A young woman in the state of Pennsylvania, 
 reared by an infidel father who paved her way 
 to hell by teaching her the contents of the Age 
 of Reason, was at last, after her father's death, 
 brought under the influence of the Gospel by an 
 earnest minister Whose services she attended. 
 She gave her heart to God, and for some years 
 lived an humble Christian life. In the course of 
 time the minister Was removed by the calendar; 
 a new preacher came; one of a different type, 
 who had been trained under the new regime, 
 
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 with a new "Course of Study," an evolutionist, a 
 higher critic of the destructive type, and in his 
 sermons he gave vent to the things which this 
 young woman had heard her father say, many 
 years ago. How strange it seems that men can 
 and do preach things in orthodox pulpits today, 
 that if they had preached them forty years ago, 
 they would have been expelled. Her faith was 
 weakened ; she lost her experience, and soon after 
 died. During her last illness the preacher came 
 to see her. When she told him what his destruct- 
 ive criticism had done for her, and said to him, 
 "You are preaching What my infidel father once 
 said, you are rehashing the things Paine taught, 
 from an orthodox pulpit, I have lost all the faith 
 I ever had. I am going to hell, and you will 
 come after me. I am damned and you did it." 
 During the campmeeting at Beulah Park, Allen- 
 town, Pa., an earnest, talented Methodist preach- 
 er was a constant attendant and a very helpful 
 hearer. He received the Holy Ghost as his Sanc- 
 tifier as a result of the sermons he heard at that 
 time. In his earlier years he had been a Meth- 
 odist preacher, filling a pulpit in a conference, 
 was devoted and true; but his Presiding Elder 
 came quarterly and would preach sermons that 
 tore the Word of God to pieces, assailing the 
 
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 Pentateuch, denying the Prophetical Books, and 
 pursuing the usual course of the higher critic of 
 the day. The young man followed him, and went 
 to the logical conclusion, and out of the pulpit, 
 into Socialism, became a noted Socialist orator, 
 but never found any rest for his soul. He went 
 to an evangelistic service held by Bro. Bieder- 
 wolf, went to. the altar, found the Christ he had 
 rejected, went shouting down the streets iand 
 told all he met of his joy in believing, and was 
 led of God hack into the ministry. He is at this 
 very date minding the Holy Ghost, and is headed 
 toward the evangelistic field, preaching a full 
 salvation. 
 
 Facts, not arguments. A chaplain was visit- 
 ing a hospital ; the surgeons had just made their 
 rounds, and one of them said, "Chaplain, you had 
 
 better go see that man in cot No. , he is 
 
 going to pass in his checks pretty soon, and 
 there is no hope for him." The chaplain was 
 soon by the side of the dying soldier, and accost- 
 ing him asked, "My boy, how is it?" and received 
 as an answer, "I am done for ; going over soon — 
 no hope." The chaplain said, "Had you not bet- 
 ter pray?" and the dying man laughed in his 
 face. "Ask me to pray? You do not know who 
 you are talking to, or you would never do that." 
 
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 Then he unburdened himself. "Let me tell you 
 chaplain. There was a young fellow came into 
 our company, and he was as green as a gum log. 
 He never swore an oath; he did not know one 
 card from another, and as for liquor, he never 
 had tasted it. I made up my mind I would make 
 him one of us, and as bad as myself. And chap- 
 lain, that fellow got so he would swear till we 
 old boys would stand back in sheer amazement. 
 The air would be blue with his cuss words. And 
 drink? He would carry more whisky under his 
 belt and walk straighter than any man in our 
 company. You should have seen the boys pony 
 up on payday when the paymaster came rpund. 
 He could skin us all, had us all euchered, and got 
 half the money there was in the company. And 
 say, chaplain, I taught him all he knew; taught 
 him to drink, swear and gamble. Say, chaplain, 
 in the fight in which I got this wound that will 
 soon end my earthly career, that boy was shot 
 dead at my side. Go call him back; let me undo 
 the wrong I did that boy — then I'll pray" No 
 road to yesterday — no way back to the lost op- 
 portunity. God was departed from him and he 
 knew it! 
 
 Just facts, you know — not arguments — some- 
 thing for you to think on, something to make you 
 
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 think, give you pause. Your soul is at stake—. 
 for God's sake, THINK! 
 
 A man lay dying in a little Kentucky town. 
 A good member of the church- — but death came. 
 His constant cry was, "I am lost." His wife said 
 to their son, "Go, call the minister." And as 
 he came in response to the call, she met him at 
 the door and said, "Husband is always saying, 
 'I am lost! I am lost!' It is just awful to hear 
 him going on so." The preacher went to his 
 side, listened to him, then said, "Oh, no; you 
 are not lost ; you have been a pillar in the church. 
 What would we have done without you? You 
 have been a standby for years." But the dying 
 church member kept on saying, "I am lost! I 
 am lost!" The preacher went to the wife and 
 said, "You must not mind What he says — he is 
 delirious." But the dying man said, as he caught 
 the words, "I am not delirious; you have been 
 pastor so many years; that man at the foot of 
 the bed has been my neighbor and friend for 
 years; that woman was my wife's girlhood 
 friend. Do not tell me I am delirious. I am lost ! 
 lost! LOST!" Lost, and he knew it — and knew 
 why! The Lord was departed. 
 
 Sometime ago there was a church that received 
 considerable support from an unsaved man who 
 
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 seemed to be much interested in the young folks 
 of the community in which the church was lo- 
 cated. Once there came a minister on the charge 
 who wondered why he was so interested and yet 
 never joined the church, nor gave any evidence 
 of salvation. So he went to the man and asked 
 him, "Why is it that you who so regularly give 
 to the church, yet you never darken our doors, 
 nor attend our meetings, nor make a profes- 
 sion ?" The man looked him straight in the eyes, 
 thanked him for the question, and answered: 
 "Years ago, while I was a young man, the Spirit 
 of God strove with me. I was under much con- 
 viction — knew I ought to yield — but owing to 
 this and that, I said 'NO' to God. He hft me. 
 I am as surelv damned as if I were in heli this 
 moment. I shall die just as I have lived. I am 
 a lost and damned man. I give to the church 
 to help the young folks. I do not want them to 
 do as I did. Do all you can for the young; as 
 for me, there is no hope. God has left me." He 
 knew the awful fact, and he knew why! 
 
 I was in Idaho preaching in a revival service 
 that God owned, where souls were getting 
 through to precious victory. There was a young 
 man in the congregation one night who wanted 
 to come to the altar — and could not. He had 
 
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 been in the meeting that was held the year be- 
 fore. In that meeting he went to the altar, and 
 an older brother came and took him away. This 
 time he wanted to go to the altar; the brother 
 who took him away the year before, wanted him 
 to go; friends were asking him to go — but he 
 could not — he was handcuffed to the sheriff. He 
 had committed some crime for which he had 
 been arrested, and was waiting in the meeting 
 for the train to pass through that went to the ad- 
 joining town, the county seat. One man at least 
 who could not go to the altar whenever he wanted 
 to. And you cannot get folks to pray with you any 
 old time that you want them to. Sometimes God 
 will not let them pray. Let me give you an in- 
 stance: Mrs. Williams was a successful evan- 
 gelist, owned of God in winning souls and much 
 gifted in prayer. She came home one time, very 
 tired after a series of meetings. She had put 
 off her traveling dress, arrayed herself in a loose 
 garment and was seated in her chair, thanking 
 God for an opportunity to rest, when the door- 
 bell rang and she was called to pray with a dying 
 neighbor. She went to the house and entering 
 was taken upstairs to a room where lay a man 
 who was constantly crying, "Pray, oh, pray!" 
 The mother said to Mrs. Williams, "Oh, do pray 
 
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 for him!" And she at once fell on her knees 
 and tried to pray for the young man — but God 
 shut her up — and she rose from her attitude, 
 saying, "I cannot pray." The mother said, 
 "Mrs. Williams, you hear his request. Oh, do 
 pray for him !" And thus urged, she knelt again 
 in prayer, but she had hardly begun when God 
 shut her up, and she again said, "I cannot pray." 
 She left the room and the last thing she heard 
 was the distressful cry, "Oh, pray, pray, pray?' 
 He died the next morning just before the dawn 
 of day, and his last whisper was, "Oh, pray, pray, 
 pray." But God would not let his servant, so 
 gifted in prayer, utter one single petition. Why? 
 Let me tell you. Years before he had been in 
 a meeting where many young people were ask- 
 ing for saints to pray for them, and he, with 
 one other, had covenanted to ask for prayer never. 
 But when the cold hand of death was feeling 
 round his heartstrings, then he wanted someone 
 to pray. But God has a long memory, and he 
 would not let anyone pray for him. The Lord 
 was departed from him — and he knew it. 
 
 If the lost sinner was in his senses when he 
 died, he would scream in agony of soul as he 
 faces eternity without God. The great majority 
 of people who die, die drugged. Ask any honest 
 
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 doctor, and he will tell you this is a fact. The 
 chamber where the sinner meets his death would 
 be an ante room of hell, were it not for the drug, 
 the quieting medicine that you want given to 
 them to relieve you as you see them suffer. In 
 1892 a train was rushing on toward the World's 
 Fair. Men were laughing, talking— merry in 
 anticipation of the good times they were expect- 
 ing at the great show, when a head-on collision 
 occurred at Battle Creek, Mich., and twenty-six 
 souls were hurried into eternity. Unexpected? 
 Yes, but no more so than your's may be. At 
 seventy heart-beats a minute you are rushing on 
 towards eternity. At any minute your heart may 
 stop beating, and then Where would you spend 
 Eternity ? I saw this notice, or rather advertise- 
 ment in the street car in Huntington, W. Va., 
 one day. Read it : "If some folks could read the 
 death notices that will be in the paper three 
 months from now, they would take out life in- 
 surance today." I at once thought, If some folks 
 could read the death notices that will be in the 
 paper three months from now, they would seek 
 God now — at once. If that man reading this 
 sermon now could read the death notices that 
 will be in the paper three months from now — 
 
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 yes, one month from now — he would mind God 
 and seek God now. Are you the one? 
 
 Lost forever, eternally lost 
 
 Living in time, but the dead line crossed — 
 
 Lost to God, to hope and grace, 
 
 Never to see an angel face. 
 
 Never to know of joy in Heaven, 
 Never to know of sins forgiven, 
 Always to know closed is the door, 
 And hope has fled for evermore. 
 
 Naught but anguish and terror and pain, 
 Crying for mercy, but ever in vain ; 
 The groans of the lost the music of hell, 
 And naught to break the awful spell. 
 
 Moving to meet thee, hell from beneath, 
 Weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth; 
 Groanings and shriekings and cries of despair, 
 Regrets unavailing, the lost everywhere. 
 
 Lost forever, ever and more, 
 Closed forever probation's door; 
 Lake of fire, the second death, 
 Now spent in vain is praying breath. 
 
II 
 
 MASTERS OF CIRCUMSTANCES 
 
 "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in 
 him; and he shall bring it to pass/' Psa. 37:5. 
 
 I believe that it is every man's privilege to be 
 bigger than circumstances. I pity the man who 
 is so weak that he allows circumstances to defeat 
 him. I believe that the man who is yoked up 
 with God — and any man may be thus yoked — 
 the devil, or hell, or the world, or circumstances, 
 or all combined, cannot defeat that man. I am 
 confident that God never appointed us to defeat. 
 I believe we were chosen to be holy. To be holy 
 means to be conqueror. "How can two walk 
 together except they be agreed ?" The man that 
 walks with God has the best company heaven 
 can afford, and hell trembles in his presence. I 
 am somewhat of the faith of a little boy, who 
 one time knelt at his grandma's knees to pray, 
 and after he went through the usual prayer that 
 he had been taught, he kept on praying for quite 
 a while; and when he rose from his knees his 
 
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 grandma said, "Child, what made you pray so 
 long?" He said, "Well, you know, grandma, we 
 sing, 'The devil trembles when he sees the weak- 
 est saint upon his knees/ and I thought I would 
 give him a good shaking." I believe that to be true. 
 It is certainly Scriptural that a man who is yoked 
 up with God is bound to be a conqueror — master 
 of circumstances, master of the situation, and at 
 last when he passes through all the afflictions of 
 this world, and enters through the pearly gates, 
 the angels of heaven will delight to do him honor, 
 because he has been made conqueror through the 
 blood of Jesus Christ. Now, you can dip your 
 brush in the darkest colors that hell can afford; 
 you can paint the darkest picture that human 
 agency can paint, or that a carnal mind or a man 
 deeply agitated in sorrow can possibly paint, and 
 when you have gotten through I want to dip my 
 brush in the colors of Calvary and write over it 
 all, "The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleans- 
 eth us from all sin." I believe that God can, 
 that God will bless the man that walks with him, 
 and He will make him conqueror. 
 Listen to the poet: 
 
 "I cannot do it alone, 
 
 The waves run fast and high 
 
 The fogs close chill around, 
 
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 The lights go out in the sky, 
 But I know in the end we two shall win, 
 Jesus and I. 
 
 "Coward and wayward and weak, 
 I change with the changing sky, 
 Today so strong and brave, 
 Tomorrow too weak to fly. 
 But He never gives in — so we two shall win — 
 Jesus and I." 
 
 That makes me master, that makes me con- 
 queror, that assures me that all the way down 
 to the end I shall be more than conqueror through 
 Him that hath loved me. "Well," but you say, 
 "Brother KJulp, are not we sometimes defeated?" 
 Yes, but it is our own fault. Perhaps we did 
 not call in reinforcements quick enough ; perhaps 
 we were rather slow in remembering the prom- 
 ises of God. But listen: If you were once de- 
 feated, why should you stay defeated? We are 
 in the battle, we are human, we are subject to 
 infirmities, the enemy goes about as a roaring 
 lion seeking whom he may devour; but listen 
 to this: There is no need of your trembling; 
 when you are trembling it shows you need the 
 anointed eyes. That old prophet went out one 
 time and the enemies were gathered all around 
 him, and there was a young man with him from 
 
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 the school of the prophets, who seeing the great 
 crowd around him began trembling, and he 
 shook like an aspen leaf. The old prophet said, 
 "Lord, open his eyes !" And when his eyes were 
 opened he saw what the old prophet had seen 
 all the time — the hilltops were crowded with 
 horses and chariots of fire. He that is for us 
 is greater than all that can be against us. 
 Brother, sister, do not be discouraged! I am 
 here this afternoon to tell you that faith unites 
 a man with Omnipotence and makes him bigger 
 than any circumstances that can be gathered 
 around him. Now, I want to prove it. We will 
 have a class-meeting with a lot of saints together 
 like they used to have. When I was a boy I 
 went to class-meeting with father and mother, 
 and an old leader would come around among 
 them, a man of Christian experience, and he 
 would go to each one separately and say, 
 "Brother, how is your soul today ?" And that 
 old saint would get up — or a young saint, as it 
 may be — and tell how he was getting along in his 
 soul. He did not talk about the years gone by; 
 did not say God's Word was true and he believed 
 it, but he just held up one bunch of grapes after 
 another, one bunch of pomegranates after an- 
 other, and then declared he was in the land and 
 
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 had the fruits. Say, I like the old-fashioned 
 Methodist class-meetings. I believe in class- 
 meetings this afternoon, and we will have one. 
 I am going to ask the mother of Moses to stand 
 up and testify. Listen! This preacher has de- 
 clared this afternoon that faith in God will make 
 you master of circumstances. Women have been 
 encouraged by your faith in the days gone by, and 
 I want to ask you to give your testimony. "1 
 was a mother and God gave me one of the finest 
 boys that was ever given to a mother. The king 
 of Egypt made a decree that all the children of 
 Israel should be put to death, and I remembered 
 the promise that had been made unto Abraham, 
 and after prayer I made an ark and daubed it 
 with the slime of the river, and then I launched 
 that ark out on the bosom, of the Nile." 
 
 "What! did you put that ark with the child 
 in it out on the river Nile?" "No, no; I launched 
 it out on the promise of God; and there came a 
 day when the daughter of the king came down 
 to the river to bathe, and she saw the ark among 
 the flags, and when she had opened it and saw 
 the weeping baby, she had compassion on it. She 
 decided to keep it and that she would have a 
 Hebrew nurse for it; so they came and called 
 me for that purpose. Thus, by the Providence 
 
30 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 of God my own baby was restored to me." Faith 
 in God makes us master of circumstances. 
 
 Well, do you want to hear from Moses? 
 Moses, I want you to testify this afternoon. Will 
 faith in God make a man master of circum- 
 stances? And I see Moses, the old lawgiver of 
 Israel, the man who had all the learning of the 
 Egyptians, the man who was reared in Pharaoh's 
 court — I see him stand up there and I hear him 
 testify, and he says: "There came a time when 
 I had to choose between a throne and a race of 
 slaves ; I had to choose between being the son of 
 Pharaoh's daughter and casting in my lot with 
 an army of slaves. I looked upon the backs of 
 the slaves, and there were the scars of the task 
 masters ; but I remembered the promise that God 
 had made, and I esteemed the reproaches of 
 Christ greater riches than all the treasures of 
 Egypt, and I cast in my lot with the people of 
 God." Did it pay? "Let me tell you; forty 
 days I was shut in with the Infinite and He let 
 me sit in His presence and He talked to me, and 
 at last there came a time when I should die, but 
 I did not die the ordinary death; my soul said 
 goodbye to the body and I went up to be with 
 the redeemed. ,, Hallelujah ! Faith in God makes 
 a man master of circumstances. 
 
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 Well, here is a man from Uz; an old white- 
 bearded patriarch — I want to hear from him. 
 Job, Job, will faith in God make a man master 
 of circumstances ? Job can hardly talk for shout- 
 ing. He gets up and begins to testify : "I have 
 proven the thing to be true all in one day; a 
 messenger came to me and said, 'The oxen were 
 plowing, and the Sabeans fell upon them and 
 took them away; yea, they have slain all the 
 servants with the edge of the sword; and I only 
 am escaped to tell thee/ He had not gotten 
 through speaking when another messenger came 
 and said, 'The fire of God is fallen from heaven, 
 and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, 
 and consumed them ; and I only am escaped to tell 
 thee/ Before he had finished speaking another 
 messenger came and said, 'The Chaldeans made 
 out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and 
 have carried them away, yea, and slain the 
 servants with the edge of the sword; and I only 
 am escaped to tell thee/ While he was 
 still speaking there came another and said, 'Thy 
 sons and thy daughters were eating and drink- 
 ing wine in their eldest brother's house : And, be- 
 hold, there came a great wind from the wilder- 
 ness, and smote the four corners of the house, 
 and it fell upon the young men, and they are 
 
32 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 dead ; and I only am escaped to tell thee' " 
 But, Job, I want to ask you: Does faith in God 
 make a man master of circumstances? What did 
 you do that day? "I lifted my hands and my eyes 
 to heaven and I said, 'Naked came I out of my 
 mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither : 
 The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away ; bless- 
 ed be the name of the Lord/ " Oh, brother, 
 faith in God makes a man master of circum- 
 stances ! 
 
 And that is not all. Here is a man I think 
 a great deal of and I want to get him in this 
 class-meeting. Daniel, I want to ask you, will 
 faith in God make a man master of circum- 
 stances ? And old Daniel gets up and says, "I was 
 in the land of captivity; I was far away from 
 home, my people had hung their harps on the 
 willows, and we very seldom heard the song of 
 rejoicing. When we exhorted them to sing they 
 would say, 'How can I sing the songs of God 
 in this land of captivity?' Then my enemies 
 went and had an edict passed and said that if a 
 man should pray to the God of heaven he should 
 be cast into the lions' den; and I kept my win- 
 dows up and prayed three times a day, and they 
 took me and cast me into the lions' den, and 
 there I slept all night, but the king passed the 
 
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 night without sleep, and came to the mouth of 
 the lion's den very early the next morning and 
 said, 'O Daniel, servant of the living God, is 
 thy God whom thou servest continually, able to 
 deliver thee from the lions?' And I shouted, 
 'My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the 
 lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me.' " 
 Hallelujah! Faith in God makes a man master 
 of circumstances. 
 
 Say, let us get this little fellow up. He has 
 sore eyes ; nothing very attractive about this fel- 
 low, but every time he testifies the saints catch 
 fire. Oh, I want you to look at him! Paul, I 
 have made this proposition to this congregation, 
 that faith in God will make a man master of the 
 situation. And I see Paul, who has been many 
 years on the way, has been shipwrecked five 
 times, has had forty stripes save one laid on 
 him, and I want you to be very still now, while 
 Paul testifies. Paul gets up and says: "Forty 
 men took an oath that they would not eat nor 
 drink until they had taken my life — and, halle- 
 lujah! I do not know where they are, but I am 
 here! And I was out on an old ship, and for 
 days the sun and stars and moon were not seen, 
 and every sail was gone, and the sailors had lost 
 all heart and were wanting to put the prisoners 
 
34 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 to death; and when everything was the darkest 
 I threw my arms around the old mast and said, 
 'I believe God/ " Oh, hallelujah ! When every- 
 thing is dark, faith says, "I will make you master 
 of circumstances." 
 
 Isaac Watts, thou poet of Methodism, will 
 faith in God make a man master of circum- 
 stances ? Isaac is accustomed to giving his testi- 
 mony in song: 
 
 "Thy saints in all this glorious war 
 Shall conquer though they die, 
 
 They see the triumph from afar, 
 By faith they bring it nigh." 
 
 Charles Wesley also sings his testimony: 
 
 "Thou, oh Christ art all I want 
 More than all in Thee I find." 
 
 Hallelujah! "More than all in thee I find/' 
 
 I know of a preacher who has been in Africa 
 the greater part of his life. Alongside of him 
 has been an educated woman, his wife. They 
 both came out of the finest circles of Christian 
 society. When he was home for a short time 
 someone asked him concerning his going back 
 to Africa, and he said, "Wife and I are going 
 back to our black friends; we are going so far 
 into the interior that we will never see a white 
 
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 face again. We are going to live and die not 
 only for Africa but in Africa, and we are doing 
 \t for Jesus' sake." Faith in God made that man 
 master of circumstances. 
 
 I was at the Springfield camp in Ohio, and on 
 missionary day there was a man there that was 
 asked to talk, and I looked at that fellow and I 
 thought to myself, "Are they going to put that 
 fellow up to talk?" He did not look as though he 
 knew an adverb from a shad, but they put him up 
 and he began to talk, and I wish you had heard 
 him. It was not five minutes until he was rub- 
 bing his eyes and was getting blessed, and had 
 everybody else blessed. That fellow came from 
 India and every day on his way he wrote a letter, 
 and after he got here he mailed them all ; and in 
 the last letter he wrote he said to his wife, "I 
 have something to tell you that will make your 
 heart laugh: when I come back to India I come 
 back not only to live in India, but to die in 
 India." 
 
 We can lose sight of big automobiles, big din- 
 ners, big churches, friends and hosts of friends 
 when Jesus Christ fills our vision. Oh, brother, 
 I pity the man whose vision can be filled by a 
 man. I pity the man who cannot see anything 
 else but the Apostolic Holiness Church; I pity 
 
36 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 the man that cannot see anything else but the 
 Methodist, the Baptist, or the Presbyterian 
 Church. Now, wait; do not misunderstand me. 
 I believe everybody ought to belong to a church 
 and stand by it; but there never was a church 
 that was big enough to fill the vision of a man 
 who has once had a glimpse of Jesus — I do not 
 believe in glimpses of Him either. An old man 
 who was dying was asked, "Do you get a glimpse 
 of Jesus ?" He said, "Away with glimpses! For 
 forty years I have had a full look!" Glory be 
 to God! Glad I have a full look, brother. Oh, 
 glory be to heaven's King ! I want to thank God 
 for my experience this afternoon. Jesus Christ 
 satisfies me abundantly, abundantly, abundantly! 
 Glory be to God forever! Hallelujah! Hallelu- 
 jah! Satisfied in Jesus, and with Jesus, and ex- 
 pect to be satisfied eternally ! Expect to keep on 
 growing! My soul is bigger today than it ever 
 was, and I expect to keep on growing through 
 the eternal ages. God is going to give me an 
 increased capacity that will help adapt me. 
 Glory be to God! I cannot tell you what there 
 is before me, but by the grace of God I am going 
 every step of the way to find out. God said to 
 the people of Israel before they got to Canaan, 
 "I will give you a land that flows with milk and 
 
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 honey; I will give you houses you did not build, 
 and I will give you wells you did not dig," and 
 glory be to heaven's King, I am headed for the 
 land where there is a mansion I did not build, 
 where there is a fountain I did not strike. I am 
 going, I am going to take possession! Hallelu- 
 jah! I am glad I am in the class-meeting. Hal- 
 lelujah ! Glory be to our God! Let all the people 
 say, Amen! 
 
 Well, now, wait a moment! Somebody says, 
 "Brother Kulp, that is the experience I want." 
 Well, my text tells you how to get it. "Commit 
 thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and 
 he shall bring it to pass." "Well," somebody 
 says, "I have been to the altar, and I have com- 
 mitted and did not get anything." Brother, you 
 did not commit, and I want to say to you on the 
 line of thought that our dear brother had this 
 morning, you cannot commit without you do 
 certain things before. What are they? First, 
 you have to admit. Admit what? "Lord, I am a 
 sinner — I am unworthy ; Lord, I am the vilest of 
 the vile ; Lord, if I had my deserts I would go to 
 hell. I am a sinner, I have sinned against light, 
 I have sinned against knowledge, I have cruci- 
 fied the Son of God." You have to admit. That 
 is the first thing. Admit. Now, follow me, what 
 
38 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 is the next thing? Submit. "Oh, I do not want 
 to submit." I will tell you that is the trouble 
 with us; we are too stiff, we are too proud, we 
 do not like to submit ourselves unto God. You 
 submit yourself to man. Listen! I buy a rail- 
 road ticket, I take that piece of pasteboard, I 
 walk into a car, and I sit down and submit myself 
 to the conductor and the brakeman and the en- 
 gineer, and the foreman. I submit myself. I 
 do not run the train ; I do not try to. The great 
 trouble with people now-a-days is that there are 
 so many who are trying to run the train. I came 
 from Pilot Point, Texas, to Texarkana, and 
 when I got on the train I said to the conductor, 
 "I want to get the Cotton Belt for Memphis." 
 He took my ticket and punched it and said, "All 
 you have to do is to sit still and we will do the 
 rest." And all I have to do now is to commit 
 my way unto the Lord and He will do the rest. 
 I have committed myself and I am riding. Hal- 
 lelujah! I am riding! A fellow was one time 
 walking on a railroad track, and a station man 
 came along and said, "You have no right to walk 
 on this track." He said, "I have," and he pulled 
 out a railroad ticket. The man said to him, 
 "You are a fool; that is not a ticket to walk — 
 that is a ticket to ride." A great many people 
 
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 do not seem to understand we have a ticket to 
 ride. No, we will not submit; we want to boss. 
 I want to say this, that whenever a man gets the 
 baptism of the Holy Ghost all the desire to boss 
 is taken out of him. There is a man I respect 
 very highly. My shoes needed blacking. He 
 said, "I will black them for you." I said, "I will 
 black my own shoes." "No, I will black them; 
 I want to get a blessing." Well, you can have 
 your choice, washing the saints feet or blacking 
 their shoes — I do not care which. Man has to 
 admit, then submit, and then what? Commit. 
 If you have admitted and submitted, then commit. 
 What does that mean? Abandon yourself to 
 God. We have some Holiness people that tell 
 you that consecration is not a condition of sanc- 
 tification, but I stand here to say it is. They say, 
 "Oh, you folks are consecrating over the old 
 man !" But, God bless you, if anything will put 
 the old man to death and mortify him, it is when 
 you abandon yourself to the Holy Ghost. I de- 
 clare unto you I have no will of my own now-a- 
 days; I have handed it over to God, and have 
 told Him His will is mine, and I tell you this 
 afternoon that my experience is, that all I have 
 to know is, what God wants me to do, and I 
 will do it. Commit yourself, abandon yourself 
 
4 o THE DEPARTED LORD, o*, 
 
 unto God. Then what, after you admit, submit 
 and commit? Then God will remit. Did you 
 ever get any remittances? One time there was 
 an old lady bowing in prayer, saying, "I have 
 not a bite of bread nor a bite of meat in the 
 house, but Lord, I am trusting you." And there 
 were some wicked boys heard her and went to 
 the store and got some bread and meat and 
 threw it into the house, and the old lady said, 
 "Oh, God, I thank you for sending me some 
 bread and meat." The boys came in and said, 
 "Oh, Auntie, you need not thank God for that; 
 we are the ones who brought it." "Oh," she 
 said, "God sent it, but the devil brought it." A 
 remittance from heaven. 
 
 What is our remittance? First, pardon. Has 
 it come this afternoon ? Second, purity. I want 
 to ask you, have you received the Holy Ghost? 
 Did you admit, submit, commit and get the 
 remittance f Is this text true? "Commit thy 
 way unto the Lord; trust also in Him; and He 
 shall bring it to pass?" 
 
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 III 
 
 GATHER NOT MY SOUL WITH SINNERS 
 
 "Gather not my soul with sinners." (Psalm 
 26:9.) 
 
 When one preaches, and the stenographer is 
 taking down every word that is uttered, one 
 ought to be very careful what one says; and 
 when we remember that God hears, God takes 
 note, God makes record of every word that we 
 utter, we ought to be careful, for we will have 
 to meet it at the Judgment Seat of Christ. We 
 ought to be very careful what we think; we 
 ought to be very careful how we hear ; we ought 
 to remember that Jesus once said to the messen- 
 gers that He sent out, "He that heareth you, 
 heareth me; and he that rejecteth you, rejecteth 
 me; and he that rejecteth me, rejecteth him that 
 sent me." 
 
 I want to bring you a message from God, 
 from His own Word. The infidel denies the 
 Christian revelation; the agnostic stands with 
 
42 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 the future before him, and says, "We do not 
 know"; but the man who believes the Word of 
 God — and every man and woman ought to pay 
 attention to it — learns this lesson, gets this great 
 truth, that out in the beyond there is an eternal 
 future. We look backward, and there is dura- 
 tion that never began; we look forward, and 
 there is duration that never will end. In that 
 future there are rewards. The Word of God 
 teaches it. In the Sermon on the Mount/Jesus, 
 when He had taken His place in front of that 
 multitude, opened His mouth, and taught them, 
 saying — listen to it! "He that heareth my 
 words, and doeth them, I will liken him to a man 
 who built his house upon the rock; and the 
 winds blew, and the floods came, and the rains 
 descended and beat upon that house: and it fell 
 not; for it was founded upon a rock. But he that 
 heareth my sayings, and doeth them not, I will 
 liken him to a man which built his house upon 
 the sand: the floods came, the winds blew, the 
 rains descended and beat upon that house; and 
 it fell : and great was the fall of it." 
 
 Eternal Destiny Fixed by Present Actions 
 
 Your future throughout eternity will be the 
 logical consequence of your actions here. Jesus 
 
WORDS THAT BURN 43 
 
 Christ teaches us in this Word : "Behold, I come 
 quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every 
 man according as his work shall be" The beg- 
 gar died and was carried by the angels to a place 
 of rest; the rich man died and in hell he lifted 
 up his eyes, being in torment. There is a here- 
 after. There is a future, and every man in that 
 future will reap just exactly as he sows. Listen 
 to the Apostle : "For me to live is Christ ; to die 
 is gain." "Having a desire to depart and be with 
 Christ, which is far better." This Book says 
 Abraham, Aaron, Mpses, were gathered unto 
 their fathers. Not where they were buried ; back 
 yonder beyond the Euphrates lay their ancestors. 
 
 It meant something more than that — gathered 
 where they were over yonder! Job says, "The 
 rich man shall die, but not be gathered." Listen 
 to my text : "Gather not my soul with sinners." 
 What does that imply ? That over yonder sinners 
 will be gathered together. They will be associ- 
 ated together. They will go to one place. Judas 
 killed himself, and went to his own place — the 
 place that he had fitted himself for. Men get 
 what is coming to them. God is eternally just, 
 and what you sow in this life, just as sure as that 
 old Bible is true, you will reap hereafter. 
 
44 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 Hell, the Slum of the: Universe 
 ''Separate me from the sinners; gather me not 
 with the sinners." What does that imply? Listen 
 to it! Hell! Hell is the slum of the universe. 
 I have been down at George Street Mission be- 
 fore the saints down there prayed away and out 
 so many of the saloons, when it was as evil as 
 the gutters of Hell. The "Red Light" district is 
 everything that is vile, everything that is foul, 
 everything that is unclean. Hell is the slum of 
 the universe; devils, angels that kept not their 
 first estate, which were cast down from the pres- 
 ence of God, to be reserved in chains of darkness 
 unto the judgment of the great day — angels 
 fallen, demons, dark spirits, the damned of all 
 ages, all the unclean, all the foul, all the filthy, 
 all the sorcerers, all the whoremongers, all the 
 adulterers, all the liars, all the incestuous — ev- 
 erything that God hates gathered out of the uni- 
 verse of God, cornered up in Hell, with a door 
 that never opens outward, with God Almighty 
 writing "Eternity" across the bar — shut in 
 there forever. And as I hear their groans, as I 
 hear the cries of the lost, as I hear the shouts of 
 devils, as I hear the damned weeping and wailing 
 and gnashing their teeth, as I hear the cries of 
 remorse, and despair, and anguish, and know it 
 
WORDS THAT BURN 45 
 
 is eternal, I join with the Psalmist and pray, "O 
 Lord, gather not my soul with sinners/' Listen, 
 men and women! There are only two places; 
 there is an eternal Heaven, and there is an eter- 
 nal Hell, and every soul in the sound of my voice 
 tonight, every person here is headed toward an 
 eternal Heaven or an eternal Hell, and if tonight 
 your heart should stop beating, if tonight you 
 should cease to breathe, you would go to the 
 place you are fitted for. Not that God did not 
 love you; not that Christ did not die for you; 
 not that the Holy Ghost did not strive with you ; 
 not that saints did not pray for you; not that 
 you never heard the truth of God: but, because 
 "ye would not" — because "ye zvould not." Going 
 toward eternity seventy heart beats a minute — 
 going to an eternal Heaven or an eternal Hell. 
 "Gather not my soul with sinners." 
 
 Under the Curse of God 
 
 Now, again. Hell is not only the slum of the 
 universe, but those that are there live under the 
 curse of Almighty God. I want you to get it. 
 "God is angry with the wicked every day." A 
 penitent sinner can make the heavens bend — and 
 God will incline His ear. God stepped all the 
 
46 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 way from the council chambers of the Eternal, 
 down to where at Bethlehem's plains He robed 
 Himself in mortal flesh in order to save man. God 
 smiles upon us here. The sun shines and the rain 
 falls on the just and on the unjust. The winds 
 blow, the sun shines, the grain waves for them, 
 the cheek of the fruit is colored by the sun and 
 wind for their benefit. They have Calvary, they 
 have Olivet, they have the Mediatorial Throne, 
 they have the pleading Holy Spirit, they have the 
 minister, they have the Word of God. Some of 
 them have a mother's prayers. But listen! In 
 eternity God never smiles on the sinner — God 
 never, never, never smiles on the sinner! The 
 wrath of God rests upon the lost forever and 
 ever and ever, and every unsaved man and 
 woman here tonight, every praying mother's son 
 who is unsaved, every girl who is going into 
 eternity over a mother's prayers, over a father's 
 prayers, over the blood of Jesus Christ, over the 
 strivings of the Holy Ghost — say, beloved, listen ! 
 In Hell you will lift up your eyes, being in tor- 
 ment, with the wrath of God upon you, and to 
 last throughout all eternity. And as I think of 
 it, and as I pray over it, and as I weep over it, I 
 say, "O God, gather not my soul with sinners." 
 Another thought. To aggravate all the terrors 
 
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 and all the horrors of Hell, falling upon one's 
 ear is only one sound, that of blasphemy, swear- 
 ing. The lost curse each other ; they curse God ; 
 they curse Jesus ; they curse the Holy Ghost ; they 
 curse themselves ; they curse their lost opportuni- 
 ties ; they bite their lips ; they chew their tongues ; 
 they gnash their teeth; they walk on the redhot 
 pavements of an eternal hell, and they cry, I'm 
 lost, I'm lost, Vm LOST 7/ The only music they 
 ever hear is the groans of the damned. The only 
 water they ever drink is the tears of the lost. The 
 only prayers they ever offer are never, never, 
 never answered. O God, "gather not my soul 
 with sinners !" Who are the damned ? The peo- 
 ple who did what you are doing, sinner; reject- 
 ing Jesus Christ, grieving the Holy Ghost, going 
 into eternity with your feet speckled, spotted, red 
 with the atoning blood of Jesus Christ, that you 
 despised and trampled upon. And then, memory 
 aggravates all the horrors of the damned. Men 
 will remember, "I might have been saved; Christ 
 died for me, the Spirit of God pled with me, 
 mother prayed for me, men of God preached to 
 me, friends exhorted me to give my heart to God ; 
 but I would not, I would not !" Say, listen, sin- 
 ner! How will you ever stand it? 
 
48 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 The Unceasing Groans of Hell 
 Up in the hospital in our city there is a long 
 corridor, and on each side of the corridor are 
 rooms ; in each one of these rooms a patient, some 
 undergoing operations, some of them facing 
 death. Here at one room is a glass partition. On 
 the other side of the partition there lies a woman. 
 She is going to die. The doctors say they cannot 
 help her. Oh, how she groans with pain, with 
 the suffering, with the heartaches. On this side 
 of the partitions there are other patients. They 
 say, "Please shut that door. I cannot stand that 
 woman's groans. Oh, for God's sake, please shut 
 that door." That woman died during the night. 
 One of the patients said, "I don't hear her groan. 
 Where is she?" Oh, her groans are silenced at 
 last! She died last night. But when you have 
 been ten million years in Hell, and the groans 
 of the lost and the damned have fallen upon your 
 ears, they will never cease, and you never, never 
 never can get used to it. There will never come 
 a time when they can say to you, "Those groans 
 are silenced," for in Hell they never die. May 
 God wake us up. We are facing eternity, facing 
 an eternal Heaven or an eternal Hell. 
 
 Jesus appealed to men's memories. Listen to 
 what He says at the Judgment Seat : "I was sick, 
 
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 and ye visited me not; I was in prison, and ye 
 came not unto me; I was hungry, and ye gave 
 me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me no 
 drink." Listen! In eternity, when you stand 
 at the Judgment Seat of Christ, God will appeal to 
 your memory. The books of remembrance will 
 be opened, and God will say, "I sent you a man 
 of God. He gave you a Gospel sermon, and you 
 rejected. I gave My Son to die for you, and 
 you crucified Him afresh. I sent the Holy Ghost, 
 and you said, 'Go Thy way ; when I want You, I 
 will call for You.' " Oh, the horrors ! the hor- 
 rors that will aggravate a lost soul when it re- 
 members how it trampled the blood of Jesus 
 Christ under foot, and rejected Blood-bought op- 
 portunities! "Son, remember, thou in thy life- 
 time hadst thy good things." You had camp- 
 meetings, you had Bibles, you had conviction, you 
 had example, you had Blood-bought, Providen- 
 tial opportunities, and "ye zvould not." Oh, the 
 horrors of the damned! Oh, the agonies of the 
 lost! "I am damned, I am lost, and it is my 
 fault." O God, I pray, gather not the souls of 
 this congregation with the souls of sinners! I 
 do not wonder the Psalmist prayed that way. 
 "Gather not my soul with sinners." 
 
50 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 They Never Sleep in Hell 
 Again, here you can drown your memory with 
 drink. There are no saloons in Hell. You can 
 get drunk here. You can drink over bars legal- 
 ized by the help of church members who voted 
 for license for fear their taxes would be raised. 
 But listen ! You cannot get drunk in Hell ! You 
 can have so much business here, and so devote 
 yourself to business you will forget other things, 
 you will forget important things. They don't do 
 any business in Hell. Here is the place to do 
 business. God says, "Occupy till I come." The 
 root meaning of that word, "occupy" is, "do 
 business." Do business; do it for God; do it 
 for eternity; do it for your own soul. But in 
 Hell they do not do any business. All they do is 
 to weep and wail, and gnash their teeth, and bite 
 their lips, and shed tears, and regret the past, 
 and roll and revel in remorse and despair. But 
 they never do business in Hell. You can sin all 
 day, you can violate the laws of God, you can 
 take the name of God in vain, you can chew to- 
 bacco, you can drink whisky, and then you can 
 lie down at night and sleep, and forget it all ; but, 
 beloved, they never sleep in Hell. It is dark — it 
 is dark all the time, it is worse than Egyptian 
 darkness, it is darkness that the soul feels; but 
 
WORDS THAT BURN 51 
 
 no matter how dark it is, they cannot sleep. The 
 liquid waves of eternal fire dash against the walls 
 that confine the damned, and keep on roaring 
 throughout eternity. The wicked, the lost, never, 
 never, never sleep in Hell. 
 
 Look at this fellow sitting down here. He is 
 thinking. Oh, he is thinking! He says, "My 
 thoughts will drive me to distraction. I am so 
 distracted by my thoughts I cannot do business. 
 My wife knows there is something the matter 
 with me. The children know there is something 
 the matter with 'Daddy/ My thoughts will drive 
 me to distraction/' One day he goes down to the 
 hardware store and buys an automatic revolver. 
 He goes home, goes into his room, pulls out his 
 revolver (I am giving you an actual fact), he 
 goes into his room where his wife is sleeping, 
 shoots her through the forehead, and then he 
 puts the revolver to his own brain — in order to 
 keep from thinking. He falls dead, his soul ^oes 
 out into eternity — and he is thinking yet. "Gath- 
 er not my soul with sinners !" All eternity in 
 which to think! Reaping what they sowed. 
 
 Etkrnal Doom 
 
 Now, another thought: The sinner in Hell 
 knows his doom is eternal, fixed. 
 
52 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 I visited the State Penitentiary at Trenton, N. 
 J. I went there with a friend of mine who at 
 one time was employed in the Institution. We 
 walked along the corridor and came to where a 
 door was shut, but there was a small opening. 
 He said to me, "George, look in here," and he 
 tapped and a man inside opened a little door not 
 much larger than my hand. I looked in, and saw 
 a man there about forty-five or fifty years of age. 
 
 After I came away, M!r. said to me, 
 
 "George, he is in there for life. In a moment of 
 passion he took a knife and killed a boy who 
 tantalized and angered him/' But listen! In 
 there the man has some hope. The Governor 
 may relent, friends may intercede, they may say, 
 "He has been there long enough." But, listen! 
 In Hell the sinner knows his doom is eternally 
 fixed, never can be changed, never any hope — 
 never, never, n£ve;r can hope that he will die and 
 the thing end. 
 
 A woman lay dying with a cancer. She said, 
 "Oh! Oh! Oh! Let me die! Oh! Oh! Husband, 
 kill me! kill me! kill me! I cannot stand it!" 
 That husband went to a doctor. He said, "Doc- 
 tor, I want to ask you a question. In God's name, 
 is there any hope for her?" "No, sir; she is go- 
 ing to die." "Doctor, in God's name, go over 
 
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 there and give her something that will shorten 
 her sufferings, give her something that will help 
 her out of the body." He went over there. He 
 injected something into her arm. He said, "In 
 two or three hours she will be over all her suffer- 
 ings." And in two hours all was over. But 
 when amid waves of liquid fire that roar and dash 
 themselves against the precincts that confine the 
 damned, there will never, never, never come a 
 time when anyone can come that way and cause 
 your sufferings to cease. You will groan, you 
 will cry, you will pray, you will agonize, you 
 will sufler, you will be remorseful, you will be 
 filled with despair, regret; but there will never, 
 never, never come a time when it will cease, un- 
 til God Almighty Himself dies — and He will 
 never die. "Gather" — O God! — "Gather not 
 my soui, with sinners!" 
 
 Which Way Are You Headed? 
 
 Which way are you headed tonight? Seventy 
 heart beats a minute, going toward an eternal 
 Hell or an eternal Heaven. A few more heart 
 beats, you will go across the line. A few more 
 heart beats, and probation will end. A few more 
 heart beats, mercy will be dethroned. A few 
 more heart beats, no more sermons. A few more 
 
54 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 heart beats, no mourners' benches. A few more 
 heart beats, no altar calls. A few more heart 
 beats, God Almighty Himself will shut the 
 door and you will be shut out for ever and ever 
 and ever. O God, help this dying congregation 
 tonight, facing eternity! 
 
 When the Titanic went down there were six- 
 teen hundred people on board, and the lifeboats 
 could not take them. The stern began to sink 
 lower and lower, and lower in the water. 
 The people ran up toward the bow and 
 got up to the farther end. Still she 
 went down, lower, and lower, and lower, and the 
 lifeboats pulled away for fear of the suction. 
 Those who were near said that when that vessel 
 took the last surge and went down, from sixteen 
 hundred souls went up one awful wail of despair, 
 and they said, "I never want to hear the like of 
 that again/' They only heard it for five minutes 
 — they only heard it, perhaps, for three minutes ; 
 but in Hell they hear the like through all eternity 
 — the cry that is going up from the lost, the cry 
 of anguish and despair that is going up from 
 the lost, and going up forever and forever. 
 
 Now, again. We say no change, no respite in 
 Hell, no let up — a living death. Now wait a mo- 
 ment. After you have had everything that the 
 
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 world offers — if the devil himself could give you 
 the kingdoms of this world, and you had them 
 all, if you had them all, if you had bought all its 
 pleasures, gratified every passion, if you had 
 satiated every appetite, and then should go down 
 and make your bed with the devils damned in 
 Hell, I want to ask you a question, What shall it 
 profit? 
 
 God in His mercy sent some angels, and said, 
 "Go down to Sodom and get Lot out of there." 
 And they went down, and Lot was too slow for 
 them. An angel took hold of one arm, and an- 
 other angel of the other arm, and said, "Haste 
 thee, get out for your life. I cannot do anything 
 while you are here." Why couldn't he? Because 
 off there Abraham was praying. "Get out of 
 here ; escape for thy life !" And then the fire de- 
 scended. The wrath of God is hovering over a 
 world that crucified His Son. God in His mercy 
 sends the Holy Ghost, and He sends the Word 
 of God, and the Word on one side, and the Holy 
 Ghost on the other, are saying, "Escape for thy 
 life!" 
 
56 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 IV 
 ACCORDING TO WORKS 
 
 "The Lord shall reward the doer of evil ac- 
 cording to his wickedness" (2 Sam. 3:39). 
 
 "Treasuring up wrath against the day of 
 wrath" (Rom. 2:5). 
 
 If we thought more on eternal verities, we 
 would behave ourselves better. If we would re- 
 member God, many persons would be troubled. 
 If we would take God at His Word, that we shall 
 be judged according to the deeds done in the 
 body, we would be more careful about our doing. 
 The Empress of Austria saw her Cabinet fearful, 
 her troops defeated, her generals disheartened, 
 and France robbing her of one of her fairest 
 provinces. She realized the injustice of the thing, 
 and said to the French commander: "My lord, 
 God does not settle every Saturday night, but 
 God always settles/' That is eminently true. 
 We ought to have it burnt in on our memory, on 
 our conscience, God always settles. The Old 
 Testament and the New agree, He will reward 
 
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 the doer of evil according to his wickedness. "Be 
 not deceived; God is not mocked: whatsoever a 
 man soweth, that shall he also reap." We may 
 be dealing with men, we may be dealing with 
 finite creatures, we may be for awhile creatures 
 of time; but eternity is before us, and we will 
 settle with God according to the records we have 
 made. God is pressing it home upon us. We are 
 forgetful. We are light. We are trifling. We 
 are jesting. We are satisfied with the name on 
 the church record. We are satisfied with going 
 to church and to meeting once on Sunday — if it 
 does not rain. We are satisfied with a pretension, 
 a professon, with a fireless ^experience. Biit, 
 listen to this: It means much to live. People 
 talk about it being a solemn thing to die. To die 
 is easy. It is a solemn thing to live. We are 
 living for eternity. The finest epigram in the 
 English language was written by Doddridge: 
 
 " 'Live while you live,' the epicure would say, 
 
 Enjoy the pleasures of the passing day ; 
 
 'Live while you live/ the sacred preacher cries, 
 
 'And give to God each moment as it flies/ 
 
 Lord, in my view let both united be, 
 
 I live in pleasure when I live for Thee." 
 
 It is a wonderful thing to remember that we 
 are living for God. The apostle said, "For me 
 
58 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 to live is Christ; for me to die is gain." But 
 let us get it home to ourselves. We do not have 
 to look back to a sentiment, to a truth uttered 
 nineteen centuries ago. How are we living? 
 What impress are we making upon the world 
 around us? What are we doing to help Jesus 
 Christ? It is an old proverb, "God loves to be 
 helped," and I want to say it reverently, God 
 cannot do without us. Down at Ocean Grove, 
 General Grant, my old commander, was on the 
 platform, in that great big tabernacle, and it was 
 crowded with thousands of people. A man who 
 had been a private soldier in the old Army of 
 the Potomac in Colonel Perry's old New York 
 regiment, now a Methodist preacher (Its officers 
 were most all Methodist preachers and its pri- 
 vates Methodists), introduced Grant, and when 
 he introduced him, he said, "We could not have 
 done without him, and he could not have done 
 without us." That was true. Now, I want to 
 say it reverently, God, in accordance with His 
 plan of salvation and the economy of grace, can- 
 not do without us. He says, "Lo, I am with 
 you. Go ye," and when a man who was glori- 
 ously saved, clothed and in his right mind, out 
 from among tombstones, came when Jesus was 
 about to depart, and said, "I want to go with 
 
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 Thee/' Jesus said to him, "Go to thjr home and 
 tell them what great things God hath done for 
 thee." What are you telling? What are you 
 doing? There are some people that never shout 
 anywhere else than at the "Mount of Bless- 
 ings." Some people never do any shouting at 
 home. Some people never shout before the gro- 
 cer, and the baker, and the shoemaker. How 
 are you living at home? I was thinking this 
 afternoon when our brother was giving his ex- 
 hortation, when men dropped down here on their 
 knees, if the men and women in this congrega- 
 tion who profess to be saved and sanctified, who 
 say they have received the baptism with the Holy 
 Ghost, would have their Pentecost, if they were 
 on their knees before God in prayer as much as 
 they are talking around on this camp ground, 
 this place would be awful with the Divine Pres- 
 ence. There is a great big difference between 
 the gift of gab and the gift of grace. It does 
 not require much self-denial on the part of some 
 people, to stand around and talk, and talk, and 
 talk. What we need on this camp ground is to 
 pray, pray, pray! Then we are going to see 
 something done here that will satisfy the heart 
 of Jesus Christ. Do not tell me about the hard- 
 ness of men's hearts. I know it is harder today 
 
60 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 — it seems so to me — to get men and women to 
 God ; but one thing I do know — the Gospel is the 
 power of God unto salvation to everyone that 
 believeth. I know that God hears and answers 
 prayer, and I know this, that whether you are 
 in the church or out of the church, just as sure 
 as God lives, before every man and woman within 
 the sound of my voice tonight, before every boy 
 and girl who has arrived at the age of accounta- 
 bility, there is an eternal heaven, with all its 
 joys, with all its blessedness, with all the glory 
 that the Son had with the Father before the 
 world was, or there is an eternal, salty, fiery, bil- 
 lowy hell, and it depends upon men's actions here. 
 Jesus Christ told us about a church member who 
 "lifted up his eyes in hell." Church membership 
 is no guarantee of salvation. 
 
 "The Lord shall reward the doer of evil ac- 
 cording to his wickedness. " 
 
 It was a hard thing to get away from the 
 United States Government during the last war. 
 They had secret service men in business offices; 
 they had them in shops; they had them on the 
 street; they had them wherever men congregat- 
 ed, and men not knowing that notice had been 
 taken of what they said, found the heavy hand 
 of the government laid upon them **nd the; 
 
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 were summoned before the Department of Jus- 
 tice. The government was watching, and very 
 few men escaped with their treason against the 
 government. But if men could not get away 
 from the government, how are you going to get 
 away from God? General Mitchell, that Chris- 
 tian astronomer, sat in his observatory and 
 turned his telescope down across the country, 
 and seven miles away he saw boys in an orchard, 
 shaking apples off the trees and robbing the or- 
 chard. They knew nothing of it, but that man's 
 eye was upon them. But, listen! There never 
 was a sin you ever committed, whether in the 
 light or dark, whether at home or a thousand 
 miles from home, there was never a sin hid 
 away in your bosom that you ever committed 
 that you would not have your wife, your sister, 
 your mother to know, but God was gazing on 
 the whole thing, and unless you confess and re- 
 pent, and get right with God, He will uncover 
 that thing at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Oh, 
 we go to campmeeting, and we go to our church- 
 es, and we go Sabbath after Sabbath, and go in 
 and out like the door on its hinges, and then 
 we think no responsibility, no decision, no action 
 called for. Listen ! If you have got a spark of 
 oldtime Bible salvation, it will put a go in you, 
 
62 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 and make you interested in the salvation of souls. 
 One of my prayers is, O God, help me to see in 
 everybody someone for whom Jesus died! And 
 yet they are dying all around us, they are slip- 
 ping through the fingers of the church by thou- 
 sands into a devil's hell, and there is very little 
 effort being made to save them. We have peri- 
 odic spasms that last about ten days, and then 
 for the balance of the year we devote ourselves 
 to monkey shows and church socials, and lec- 
 tures, and entertainments, and let people go to 
 hell, while Jesus Christ is on the throne praying. 
 I repeat what Brother Hatfield said this after- 
 nooon, Lord, wake us up! We are going to 
 campmeeting and enjoying ourselves ten days in 
 the year, and going back home and lying on 
 our oars, and letting the world go to hell. God 
 knows. God sees. I am glad to preach sermon^ 
 that make people uncomfortable, that drive peo- 
 ple to their knees. I am glad to preach sermons 
 that drive men and women to confession. That 
 old Book is gloriously true. It is awfully true. 
 It is tremendously true. It is eternally true. 
 "The wages of sin is death." Oh, you would 
 not think so. You would think sin was a joke. 
 You cannot get ten ungodly men together one 
 hour in a fishing party or a hunting party, but 
 
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 before the hour is past someone will have some- 
 thing to say that is smutty or unclean, and thinks 
 it is smart; but God makes a record of it. You 
 never uttered a sentence with a double meaning, 
 you never thought an unclean thing, but God 
 Almighty had the record. You never did a mean 
 thing, but God Almighty took note of it, and He 
 will call you to judgment. You do not have to 
 drink. You do not have to smoke. You do not 
 have to chew, and I think it is as much of a sin 
 to chew as it is to drink. Any man that violates 
 the law of God in his own body, sins against 
 God. Oh, I got along beautifully in some meet- 
 ings for six or eight days. Some fellows said, 
 "That is fine preaching." "That is good preach- 
 ing/' They would sit on the front seat, and 
 shout and shout, and about the ninth day God 
 would put something on me about tobacco, and 
 then they closed up just like a clam. .Thej were 
 members of the church, had their names on the 
 church record. Whenever a man gets real Bible 
 salvation, it will change the color of his spit, and 
 the Lord will reward the doer of evil in his own 
 body. If I live until the 23d day of next month, 
 I will be seventy-four years old. I have not got 
 an ache or a pain. I have not got an organ of 
 my body that I know I have from any ill feeling. 
 
64 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 When I came to this country I was as sound in 
 my body as any baby that was born since Abel. 
 I was the first baby of an old-fashioned Metho- 
 dist father and mother. Father was converted 
 at sixteen, mother at fifteen. Neither one of 
 them ever went into sin. Father lived to be 
 eighty-one and never backslid. Mother will be 
 ninety-six next November, was converted at fif- 
 teen, and never backslid, and when I was coming 
 to this country they did not try to kill me, so I 
 landed safely, with a perfect body — perfect in 
 limb, perfect in wind, and I never went off into 
 sin, as many have done, for which I thank God 
 and the training of my Christian parents. They 
 watched over me, did not let me out after dark. 
 I do not know that I ever stayed out much 
 after dark, until after I went into the army, and 
 I went into the army just before I was seventeen 
 years of age. They kept me home, and I went 
 to church with them, and sat on the same seat 
 with them. I did not sit on the same seat with 
 mother, because when I was a little fellow and 
 went to church, trie men sat on one side, and the 
 women on the other. Mien are rewarded for the 
 evil they do to their bodies, as they violate the 
 law of God, and if you have sinned against your 
 own body, either in the marriage relation or your 
 
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 appetites, you will die and go to hell as quickly as 
 the biggest drunkard in America. The Lord 
 shall reward the doer of evil according to his 
 wickedness. 
 
 Nobody ever did a good deed but what God 
 took note of it. I see an old prophet down here 
 in a pit, and the pit has mire in it, it has water 
 in it, and down there means death, and somebody 
 pities the old prophet, and goes to the king and 
 says, "You leave Jeremiah down there many 
 days and the old prophet will die on your hands. 
 Let me take him out." And the king said, "Go, 
 take him out." And they let down clouts to go 
 under his arms, and let down a rope, and told 
 him to put the rope over the clouts, and then lift- 
 ed him up out of the dungeon and landed him, 
 and took him over and put him in a chamber and 
 took care of him. By and by, in the evil day, 
 God remembered that man that went to the king 
 in behalf of the prophet, and said, "Tell him the 
 people of the land will go into captivity, but he 
 can go wherever he pleases, have perfect liberty, 
 and the whole land is at his command." 
 
 Oh, God is very mindful of His laws. God 
 said to His people, "One year in every seven thou 
 shalt leave the land lay at rest." But they were 
 like the people of America are today — they were 
 
66 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 prosperity mad — and for 490 years the land had 
 no rest. But listen! God has got a long mem- 
 ory. By and by those people were carried off into 
 captivity for seventy years, and the land had its 
 rest. Oh, you are dealing with God. You can- 
 not cheat Him. Today the Sabbath, with many 
 people, is a day of pleasure, a day for big din- 
 ners, a day for visiting, a day for company. I 
 remember I went on a new charge one time. One 
 of the leading members drove up in front of my 
 house after Sunday morning service, stepped 
 out in front of the house (he had a great big, 
 spanking team of bays and a fine surrey), and 
 he said to the children, "Is Brother Kulp there?" 
 I went to the front door, and this man said, 
 "Brother KJulp, let your George go out with us 
 and spend the afternoon, and we will bring him 
 back when we come to church tonight." I said, 
 "No, sir; I do not allow my children to go visit- 
 ing on Sunday." If people do not obey the laws 
 of God, they will not obey the laws of man. The 
 man that is not loyal to God is not a good citizen. 
 We are introducing the European Sabbath. Talk 
 about the Puritan Sabbath, when they would not 
 make a fire or wash the dishes — bless God, I 
 would rather have a Puritan Sabbath than a 
 European Sabbath. They produced men. We 
 
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 do not have any statesmen today. We have a 
 lot of politicians, and they have got their ear to 
 the ground to hear the sentiment of the people. 
 They are not leaders, but followers. In those 
 days we had men that stood four-square. We 
 are talking about keeping the Sabbath. There 
 is not much shouting, is there? The Bible says 
 it is a day of rest and worship, not v a day for fun 
 and for frolic, and your ministers all over this 
 country that are talking about a liberal Sab- 
 bath, and moving picture shows on Sunday, and 
 baseball games on Sunday, belong to the devil. 
 "The Lord shall reward the evil doer (the Sab- 
 bath breaker) according to his wickedness." 
 That is the teaching of God's Word. You are 
 dealing with God's Word. Listen to what Jesus 
 said: "The words that I speak unto you, they 
 shall judge you in that day." "The words that I 
 speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life." 
 You are not dealing with me. I am bringing 
 God's message. I would not dare to preach any- 
 thing else but what God gives me, and I preach 
 anything God gives me, no matter where I am, 
 if I have to walk home. Listen to what a man 
 doubting the truth of that Word said: "If I 
 could believe that death is an eternal sleep, I'd 
 be happy; but if there is a life beyond, I ani a 
 
68 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 lost soul, and eternity means hell for me/' And 
 that is true — hell for the man that does wickedly, 
 no matter how moral he is, no matter how high 
 he stands in society. It is hell for the sinner, 
 rich or poor. Oh, we can go down and stand 
 before the congregations in the slums and preach 
 the truth, and lay it on about hell, and about 
 the violation of God's law, and then when we get 
 uptown in the churches, and get a lot of so- 
 called respectable sinners before us, then we are 
 dealing in nosegays and perfumery and rose 
 water, and they are going to the same hell as the 
 others do. 
 
 "The Lord shall reward him according to his 
 wickedness." Down in the Shenandoah Valley 
 the commander of a brigade of cavalrymen was 
 riding through the valley. There is a home, and 
 there stands a man in the front yard, and there 
 is a boy not over sixteen years of age. Back 
 there about five miles, two or three Union soldiers 
 were hanging by the neck. The commander of 
 this brigade said, "Mosby's guerillas did that. 
 We will settle with those fellows." And he came 
 on until he came to this house, and there stood 
 that man and there stood that boy ; not a gun in 
 their hands, no sign of armed resistance, and he 
 commanded his men to shoot that man and boy. 
 
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 He said, "Run, if you can get a chance for your 
 life/' And they ran, and he said, "Men, fire!" 
 And the men fired, and that man and that boy 
 went down to death in what I call cold-blooded 
 murder. "The Lord shall reward the evil doer 
 according to his wickedness/' That Brigadier 
 General was the idol of his troops, of every cav- 
 alryman in the Army of the Potomac, and they 
 would have almost considered it treason to have 
 said then what I am saying now. But listen! 
 That man, after a great many years, went out 
 West, was surrounded by the Indians. His 
 troopers were shot down, and the Indians told 
 how he stood there with his revolvers in hand, 
 fighting to the very last, and at last he went 
 down to death. Listen ! listen ! listen ! God shall 
 reward the doer of evil according to his wicked- 
 ness. You cannot violate the law of God and 
 escape. There never was a Union or Confeder- 
 ate general, during the Civil War, that began a 
 battle on Sunday, but was defeated. When Ad- 
 miral Cevera came out of that bay down there 
 on Sunday morning, he thought the Union fleet 
 was at worship. The flag of worship was up, 
 and he came out and provoked the battle, and 
 was defeated. He was fighting against God. 
 
70 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 My text is true to the individual and to the na- 
 tion. 
 
 Now, again. We know we must die. Unless 
 Jesus conies, every saint here will die. Every 
 sinner will die. Are we living as though we 
 thought it? I was standing in the station at St. 
 Mary's, Ohio, and there was a great big bill 
 poster furnished by the railroad company, and 
 on that poster here is a party in an automobile, 
 and yonder is the railroad, and yonder comes a 
 train, and here are the words on that poster: 
 "Whenever you approach a railroad crossing, 
 always remember you may enter eternity on a 
 moment's notice." That is true whether you are 
 approaching a railroad crossing or not. No one 
 here has a guarantee for tomorrow. You may 
 die before tomorrow morning. What prepara- 
 tion are you making for it? I preached the 
 other night. "Prepare to meet thy God." WTiat 
 preparation are you making? "Why, Brother 
 Kulp, I am a member of a church." You can die 
 with your name on a church record, and go to 
 hell. I believe in churches. My name is on a 
 church record where I live, and where I was 
 pastor for fifteen and one-half years. I believe 
 in churches and denominations, and anybody that 
 cannot be satisfied nowadays must be pretty hard 
 
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 to suit. But I am not depending upon my 
 church membership to save me. The poet wrote, 
 "All men think all men mortal but themselves. ,, 
 That is a lie. Every man knows that he must 
 die. The seeds of death are in our frame. Sev- 
 enty heartbeats a minute, going to an eternal 
 heaven or an eternal hell. When Sister Stand- 
 ley was a young girl, she went down to a Mission 
 in Cincinnati that Brother M. W. Knapp was in 
 charge of, and when she was walking out, M. 
 W. Knapp said to her, "You are standing on the 
 brink of hell." Each and every sinner here to- 
 night is standing on the verge of eternity, and 
 on the very brink of an endless hell. The sinner 
 is almost lost and already damned. You say, "I 
 do not believe that." Every sinner is under con- 
 demnation, and condemnation means damnation. 
 God says in His Word, if your heart condemns 
 you, God will condemn you. How do you stand 
 in your own heart tonight? John uses the word 
 heart there instead of conscience. How do you 
 stand by your own conscience tonight? I knew 
 a little girl who went visiting with her parents — 
 a little bit of a thing about three years of age. 
 For some reason her mother and the lady of the 
 house went upstairs, and she took possession 
 downstairs, as a child three years of age thought- 
 
72 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 lessly will, and she walked out into the kitchen, 
 and then she walked out into the pantry. The 
 pantry door was open, and she saw some cookies, 
 and that child took two or three of them and 
 came out chewing cookies. The lady of the 
 house said, "That's all right/' Let me tell you 
 something. Quite a number of years afterward, 
 when she was a young lady, she went to the 
 altar and wanted to get right with God, and she 
 prayed and prayed, and came to her mother and 
 said, "Mother, do you remember when we went 
 
 to Mrs. W 's, when I was a little girl three 
 
 years old, and I took some cookies out of the 
 cupboard? Do you think I ought to go and tell 
 
 Mrs. W ?" Oh, she got through all right. 
 
 She is a preacher today. There is a way through. 
 But listen! You cannot go over your sins and 
 you cannot go under your sins. There is only 
 one way, and that is God's way — repent, confess 
 and forsake. Have you done it? You were on 
 the car the other day, and the conductor did not 
 collect your fare. Do you call yourself honest? 
 You are a thief ! You rode in the train the other 
 day. You had your girl with you, and she was 
 over six years of age, and you ought to have 
 paid halffare, and you did not do it, and you 
 thought that you beat the railroad company, and 
 
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 you were that much ahead. You are a thief — 
 and you will die and go to hell unless you repent. 
 I was preaching out at Salvation Park this way 
 one night about fifteen years ago, and went down 
 off the platform and started over to my tent to 
 get on dry underwear — I had been perspiring — 
 and as I went by a woman said to me, "Great 
 God, preacher, what am I to do? That is what 
 I did coming to campeeting." She had her 
 children with her, and did not pay halffare. You 
 do not like this preaching. This is too pointed. 
 You want something that is general. Generali- 
 ties are the death of prayer and the death of 
 preaching. God did not call me to deal in gen- 
 eralities. He called me to preach the straight 
 Gospel. 
 
 I was preaching at a certain place; I was lay- 
 ing on the truth, and a man said to another 
 preacher who was sitting behind him, "I wonder 
 if there is any necessity for any such preaching as 
 Brother Kulp gave us tonight ?" It was none 
 of his business. I am not a man-made preacher. 
 A man did not call me to preach. If a man had 
 called me to preach I would have run away long 
 ago. I had a call from heaven, and knew God 
 called me to preach. Before the next morning 
 went by this preacher who was sitting behind 
 
74 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 that man that criticized me, went to him and 
 confessed to sin, and the next morning when I 
 preached, he came to the altar. You need 
 straight preaching. You are settling down in 
 the mire and mud of sin, and you will settle in 
 an eternal hell, unless you repent. 
 
 I should not wonder tonight but there is some 
 fellow here that holds his head mighty high, and 
 it has not been many years since you sat in a 
 parlor and the young girl you sat with tonight 
 is on the street, wrecked and ruined, and you 
 are running around in somebody else's parlor, 
 to play the same thing over. A young girl one 
 time walked out of church, and a boy walked up 
 and said, "May I have the pleasure of seeing 
 you home? Will you take my arm?" She said, 
 "No, sir." The next day his sister came and 
 said to this young lady: "Last night my brother 
 approached you in a very gentlemanly manner, 
 and offered you his arm and asked for the priv- 
 ilege of seeing you home, and you said, 'No, sir.' 
 Will you please tell me why you refused my 
 brother's arm?" She said, "Certainly I will tell 
 you. I will not take the arm of any licentious 
 young man." 
 
 I heard tell of a woman sometime ago, the 
 night before she was married the man that mar- 
 
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 ried her looked her in the face and said, "Have 
 you always been a good, true, clean woman?" 
 Listen! If the women that are about to be mar- 
 ried, would ask the men that question, and insist 
 upon it, seven-tenths of the men could not an- 
 swer it truthfully, or would not, rather. I am 
 going by what the doctors say. I have the rec- 
 ords. A clean woman has as good a right to 
 a clean man as a clean man has to a clean 
 woman. A man came to me one time and said, 
 "Oh, I want to see you alone." I said, "Come on 
 up in my study." We went up there, and he said, 
 "Oh, what am I going to do? Before I was 
 married, my body was diseased through sin, and 
 I came back to this city and married my present 
 wife, and now we have children, and I am afraid 
 that my sin will tell in their bodies, and I go 
 down to the drug store and buy medicine and 
 take it home to wife, and say, 'Wife, it is spring- 
 time; the children ought to have blood medicine/ 
 She says, 'There is nothing the matter with the 
 children/ " And he did not dare to tell her, but 
 he was afraid that the sin of the father would 
 be visited upon the children. Listen ! A girl had 
 better, a thousand times over, die an old maid 
 than to yoke up with diseased manhood. I do 
 not think old maids are such awful things, after 
 
76 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 all. I am pretty sure of one thing — they did not 
 jump at the first chance they had, like some other 
 folks. I want to say another thing. I believe 
 that God Almighty can take a man who has been 
 down in sin and down in the slums, and down in 
 the mire, and forgive his sins, and clean his 
 heart, and in a measure restore his body. Glory 
 to God ! "Though ye have lain among the pots, 
 yet shall your wings be as the wings of a dove. ,, 
 Hallelujah! God says so in His Word. I am 
 glad I believe Gad. 
 
 I want to get that second text — "Treasuring 
 up wrath against the day of wrath. " Treasur- 
 ing up stores for eternity. Here is a man with 
 a muck rake. He is after gold. He fails to see 
 the crowd. Here is a man pleasure mad. He is 
 in the theater, the moving picture show. Here 
 is a man at the gaming table. Here is a man 
 with liquor hid away in the cellar and closet. 
 Here is a man — what is he doing? Gratifying 
 appetite ? No ; I will tell you what he is doing — 
 treasuring up wrath. There never was a lie told, 
 there never was an unclean thought, there never 
 was a licentious act, there never was a word 
 spoken that could not be said in the presence of 
 God, but what that person added to the treasures 
 of wrath up yonder. Oh, it is no joke to live. It 
 
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 is no dream to live. We are living for two 
 worlds. Dr. Warren said there are two classes 
 of people — timists and eternalists; worldly and 
 other-worldly, and the great majority of people 
 are today timists, the worldlings. I saw a girl 
 at the altar in one of my last meetings, and she 
 had on a wrist watch, and the thing did not go, 
 and had not gone for months. Worldlings ! Oh, 
 you say you don't believe in those things. Well, 
 I do. That was a clear case of pride. The thing 
 did not go at all, and it was worn for show, and if 
 fashion today said to wear them on your ankles 
 instead of the wrist, the majority of young folks 
 would have them on their ankles. 
 
 The Lord shall reward the doer of evil ac- 
 cording to his works — like for like. The law of 
 retribution runs all through the Word of God, 
 and runs all through natural law. Jacob de- 
 ceived his father, and his sons deceived him. The 
 Egyptians killed the male children, and God Al- 
 mighty killed the eldest son of the Egyptians. 
 Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. 
 Haman built a gallows for Mordecai, but was 
 hanged on it himself. Daniel was thrown in 
 the lions' den by his enemies, but God kept him, 
 and the next day his enemies were thrown in 
 themselves. They put the Hebrew children in 
 
78 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 the fiery furnace, and those that cast them in 
 were burned by the fire. Whenever you try to 
 make it hot for somebody else, you always get 
 burned yourself. Charles IX. looked down on 
 the pavements where Huguenot blood was run- 
 ning red — the streets flowing with the blood. 
 How did he die? His pores issuing blood; 
 bloody forms before his eyes; bloody pavements 
 before his eyes. "Whatsoever a man sows, that 
 shall he also reap." He shall be rewarded ac- 
 cording to his wickedness. You cannot get away 
 from your sins, only at the Cross. You remem- 
 ber Pilgrim came through the little wicket gate, 
 and came and stood in front of the Cross, and 
 there he lost his burden. You remember what 
 Bunyan makes him say: "Blest Cross! blest 
 sepulcher ! Yea, rather, blessed be the man that 
 hung thereon and died for me!" You can lost, 
 your sins at the Cross, but you will have to take 
 God's way to get there. 
 
 Here is a man who murdered his master. He 
 left his master's body in the house and set fire 
 to the house. He was arrested, tried and con- 
 victed. Here is a judge sitting on the bench. 
 He is very, very uneasy. The lawyers notice it, 
 the prosecuting attorney notices it, the counsel 
 for the defense notices it, and now comes the 
 
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 time to sentence the prisoner. The judge breaks 
 down and begins to weep. He went down, took 
 his place in the prisoner's box, and sat alongside 
 of the prisoner. Listen to what he said : "Twen- 
 ty years ago I murdered my master. I left his 
 body in a house, and I set fire to the house, and 
 I have been trying my own case and find myself 
 guilty." Twenty years ago a murderer — a judge 
 now on the bench, but still a murderer. Con- 
 science is faithful. The case reminds him of his 
 sin, and he sits down in the prisoner's box and 
 acknowledges himself guilty. "Be sure your 
 sin will find you out." "The wages of sin is 
 death." 
 
 "Treasuring up wrath against the day of 
 wrath." You are dealing with God, and the 
 messengers of God are on your track, and yon- 
 der is the judgment seat, and yonder Calvary, 
 and there is the praying, bleeding Christ, and 
 here is the blessed Holy Ghost, and men are sit- 
 ting under conviction, and people are saying: 
 "I would like to be saved, but, oh, that past life !" 
 Listen! The Blood will cover the past, but you 
 must repent; you must confess, you must for- 
 sake. You must go with God, or what? This 
 Book says then, eternal wrath. How is the wrath 
 of God pictured in the Bible? Fire! Fire! Fire! 
 
8o THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 Burn so much surface of the body, and all the 
 doctors in the land cannot restore you ; but Jesus 
 Christ says that eternal wrath is eternal fire. 
 "The smoke of their torment ascendeth forever 
 and ever." It is going into eternity, over the 
 dividing line, by the Bible, by a mother's prayers, 
 by the prayers of the saints, by the entreaties of 
 the Son of God by the pleadings of the Holy 
 Ghost, going over the crucified body of the Son 
 of God, to a billowy, fiery, eternal, salty, dark 
 hell, the abode of the damned, where they chew 
 their lips, bite their tongues; where there is no 
 water, no children, no music. Lost forever and 
 forever and forever lost! Without hope all 
 through eternity. No mourners' benches, no ser- 
 mons, no altar calls, no invitations, no mercy 
 offered, no repentance offered, but lost — lost for- 
 ever. Not for one thousand years, not for ten 
 thousand years, but lost for all the ages of the 
 future — lost! lost! lost! As Brother Ed Fergu- 
 son said on this platform one time — lost until the 
 last soul winging its way through eternal space 
 can find somewhere the gravestone of the Al- 
 mighty God. That means lost, lost, lost, forever ! 
 Brother, tonight God calls you, the Spirit is 
 striving with you, Jesus is praying, and here is 
 a blood-bought opportunity. Listen! You will 
 
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 make a decision tonight. I can imagine some- 
 body says, "No, preacher ; I will not." Yes, you 
 will. You will decide for God or against Him. 
 If you are saved you will know it as well as you 
 know your own name, and if you do not know 
 you are saved, you are not. "The Spirit beareth 
 witness with our spirit that we are the children 
 of God." What are you going to do with Jesus 
 tonight? Will you receive Him? Tomorrow is 
 eternity. 
 
 I was preaching away up in Ontario, near 
 North Bay, where they have the snows until 
 May and June. The first night I preached, a 
 young man said no to God. He went out of the 
 house, the night was dark, and that man climbed 
 over a fence and got down on his knees and said, 
 "O God, if you will spare me until tomorrow 
 night, I will go to that altar." And God spared 
 him, and he did not go to the altar. That man 
 went through one meeting after another. I never 
 knew him to be settled and settled with God, and 
 since I have been down here, Brother Tom Rob- 
 inson has told me that that man is in eternity. 
 God called him again and again. 
 
 I was preaching down in George Street Mis- 
 sion, and I made a remark down there like this : 
 "If you ever had a better experience than you 
 
82 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 have tonight, you are backslidden. " God said to 
 a man, "Young man, go to the altar." He did 
 not do it. Five years after that I went up in 
 Canada to preach. I was preaching the first 
 night, and I again made that remark, and I gave 
 the altar call, and a joung man stopped me and 
 said, "Five years ago I was in George Street 
 Mission, in Cincinnati, O., and I heard Mr. Kulp 
 say the same thing he said tonight, 'If ever you 
 had a better experience that you have tonight, 
 you are backslidden/ and God said to me, 'Go to 
 the altar/ and I did not go, and five years from 
 that time he comes up here and preaches the 
 same truth, and I am going to the altar." God 
 has a message here for somebody tonight, and it 
 may be that young man that is nearest the dead 
 line; that young woman that is nearest eternity; 
 that young girl that mother is praying for; that 
 mother's son that God has been talking to in 
 these meetings, and tonight God has given you 
 another opportunity. Will you come forward 
 here to the altar? How many persons are there 
 here, you want the prayers of God's people, you 
 are not ready to meet God, and Jesus says, "Be 
 ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, 
 the Son of man cometh." "Prepare to meet thy 
 God." 
 
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 V 
 
 THUS SAITH THE LORD 
 
 "I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say 
 unto them, Thus saith the Lord God" (Ezek. 
 2:4). 
 
 Every man who is called to preach the Gospel 
 is sent of God. No man has a right in the minis- 
 try who is not called into the ministry. Medi- 
 cine is a profession, the law is a profession, the 
 ministry is a calling. "No man taketh this honor 
 unto himself." I knew I was called to preach be- 
 fore I was saved ; I have met other brethren who 
 knew the same. I believe that God calls men 
 and gives them the message and then accompa- 
 nies the message with the Holy Ghost. In my 
 early days when I was preaching, if I did not 
 see some manifestations in the congregation I 
 would get bothered. One time I stopped right 
 in the middle of a sermon and said to the saints, 
 "I wish you would pray!" When I got through 
 preaching an old-fashioned Methodist preacher 
 who sat on the sofa behind me came to me and 
 
84 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 said, "George" — I was a young man then — "I 
 want to tell you one thing: God is always work- 
 ing, whether you see it or not!' And I have 
 never forgotten that. God is always working; 
 the Holy Ghost is absolutely faithful — we can de- 
 pend upon Him. All I want to know is that I 
 am God's man, have His message for the hour, 
 and all the big preachers you can put on the plat- 
 form behind me do not have any effect on me. 
 
 "Thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the 
 Lord." Do not you see in this text, called of 
 God, sent with a message? Sure. It is right on 
 the surface. "Thou shalt say unto them, Thus 
 saith the Lord." There are some things that I 
 do want to know; I am a natural interrogation 
 point; I am continually asking questions. Some 
 things I can only learn of God. 
 
 Old Squire Jones was sick — had a stroke of 
 paralysis. The doctor was attending him; he 
 was getting better, but he was very thoughtful. 
 The doctor came to see him and he sat there with 
 his head bowed apparently in deep thought. He 
 said, "Doctor, may I have another attack of 
 this?" "Yes, sir." "And it may prove fatal?" 
 "Yes, sir; but cheer up, Squire, you are a man 
 of splendid constitution. You may not have an- 
 other attack for years." "But I may have an- 
 
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 other soon?" "Yes." "And I might go off in 
 that attack?" "Yes; but cheer up, Squire, we 
 all have to pass through the gate sometime." 
 The Squire said, "Doctor, you are a Christian 
 man; I am not. I want to ask you a question: 
 What is there beyond the gate?" What is there 
 beyond the gate? I want to know. What is 
 there beyond? Is there a living hereafter? Is 
 there something beyond ? 
 
 Man is the masterpiece of God. He was made 
 a little lower than the angels; he was crowned 
 with glory and honor, and when God looked on 
 him — let me say it, will you — God was proud of 
 His work; and He said, "It is good." Man was 
 made to have dominion. Doctor Watson says 
 that every man has the primeval itch, the desire 
 to boss ; and although he fell, that thing stuck to 
 him. If there is anything I despise, it is an ec- 
 clesiastical boss. God made me too big to have 
 a Pope over me. I like brethren, but I have no 
 use for popes. I do believe that the grace of God 
 will cleanse a man from the primeval itch. Man 
 had dominion over everything — the fishes of the 
 sea, the birds of the air, the beasts of the field; 
 he walked and he talked with God; held com- 
 munion with the Infinite. But he fell — lost the 
 Divine image. There are some things man did 
 
86 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 not lose, and one is his immortality. If God had 
 not provided a Savior for the race, man would 
 have lived on forever, eternally lost. Man did 
 not lose his immortality. The Seventh Day Ad- 
 ventists say he did, but we say he did not. And 
 listen! He has in him capabilities, and he has 
 proven his mastery. There is not anything so 
 masterful as a man in the will of God. There 
 are masterful men who are outside the will of 
 God, but I crave them for Jesus. He has mas- 
 tered the secrets of the earth, has discovered the 
 gold, searched lands and waters for diamonds 
 and pearls, and has annihilated time and dis- 
 tance. When a man used to want to go across 
 continent, he had to take a wagon and go. with 
 a wagon train, where there were a number of 
 men went together for safety; and it took weeks 
 and months to go across the prairies and reach 
 the other side. Or he had to go down around 
 Cape Horn and come up on the Pacific. Now, 
 he buys his ticket, sits back in his Pullman car, 
 and in four days lands on the Pacific Coast. He 
 has annihilated distance and he has annihilated 
 time. You can start a night letter at 12 o'clock 
 and it will reach the Atlantic at 8 o'clock, four 
 hours before it started. If that is not annihi- 
 lating time, I do not know what it is. Man has 
 
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 conquered the air. The Frenchmen and Ger- 
 mans are doing much of their fighting in the air 
 and under the water. I believe the time is com- 
 ing when air ships will be as common as trains. 
 Now, I want you to look at man : He is mas- 
 ter of the earth, master of the sea, master of the 
 air, made in the image of God. Look at him 
 as his strength begins failing. He does not 
 walk with a firm step any longer, goes feeling 
 his way, going slowly down to the grave. I want 
 to ask you a question, Is this man who is made a 
 little lower than the angels — is this man made 
 to fill a hole in the ground, furnish a banquet for 
 worms? Is that the end of man? I do not be- 
 lieve it. Somehow I feel inside of me a longing 
 for something beyond. But, how am I going to 
 know? Listen! Thus saith the Lord, "These 
 things are written that you might have life." 
 Jesus Christ brought life and immortality to 
 light through the Gospel. I can find here in the 
 Word of God all that I need to know, and I can 
 walk along with a firm step, see death coming 
 down the road and know that I am conqueror. 
 How do I know it? Know it by faith; know it 
 because the Bible says so. I am believing every- 
 thing in the Bible; everything from Genesis to 
 Revelation. There are a lot of little preachers 
 
88 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 going about writing things and calling them 
 "New Thought"; but, God bless you! I am stay- 
 ing by the old Book. How do we know things? 
 "Thus saith the Lord." There is a heaven here- 
 after. How do I know ? After Solomon, the wise 
 man, had finished the greatest temple that was 
 ever built, when dedicating it, he spread forth 
 his hands to heaven and said, "Lord God of Is- 
 rael . . . hearken thou to the supplication 
 of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, and hear 
 thou in heaven, thy dwelling place." Say, heav- 
 en is the dwelling place of God. I believe there 
 is a heaven. Jesus Christ said, "In my Father's 
 house are many mansions. I go to prepare a 
 place for you." I believe in a heaven of many 
 mansions. I believe all this Book says in regard 
 to it. God says, "Heaven is my throne." God 
 tells us in this Book all that we need to know 
 about heaven. 
 
 I sat one time by a little cot, and in it lay a 
 little child about two years old, who was dying 
 of membranous croup. As I watched that little 
 one suffer and the mother standing over it wring- 
 ing her hands, I was glad to know that there is 
 a heaven where sickness never comes. No sick- 
 ness there; the saints are all healthy; no pov- 
 erty there — the saints are all wealthy. God 
 
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 bless you, beloved! I never allow any person to 
 call me a poor preacher. I am not. Not at all! 
 If ever there was a fellow who walked this earth 
 independent, it is this man. I never allow any- 
 body to measure me by the wealth of this world 
 that I possess. Bless God ! I am an heir of heaven, 
 a co-heir with Jesus Christ! Sometimes I find 
 a woman who has good sense — a young woman. 
 One time there was a young woman who lived 
 in a certain community, and there was a man 
 who came into the community and lived there 
 for about a year. It seemed that he was all 
 right, but the people did not know anything about 
 his ancestors. He kept company with this young 
 lady, and finally they were engaged to be married, 
 and someone came around and said, "Say, you 
 do not know where he came from," She said, 
 "N'O, but I know where he is going/' Amen ! 
 
 Say, we are priests, we are kings unto God, 
 going to heaven where there is no sickness or 
 death, reunion of loved ones and no one ever gets 
 old. Thank God! 
 
 Now, something about the inhabitants. There 
 are some folks I like to see. Would not give a 
 snap of my finger to shake hands with Roosevelt 
 or anybody because of their political standing; 
 but there are some folks I would like to see. I 
 
90 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 would like to see the man that lay at the rich 
 man's gate, and I expect to sometime. I want 
 to see the man who went into the lions' den and 
 there spent the night without any harm being 
 done him; I want to see the man who took his 
 son and was about ready to offer him as a sacri- 
 fice when God came on the scene. Oh, I want 
 to talk to them about their experiences, and I 
 will have plenty of time to do it, too. The sun 
 never sets there. I want to talk with John the 
 Baptist. I am in sympathy with every man that 
 had his head cut off. There would be a lot of 
 preachers have their heads taken off these days 
 if they would stand up and say, "You are living 
 with some other man's wife" — and we need some 
 people to say it. I do not believe John's head 
 was in the basket, until his soul was in heaven. 
 Oh, I am proud of our folks ; John and Abraham 
 and Brother Moses, and all the rest of them. 
 We have some fine relations you do not know of. 
 I remember in my early days I used to be so 
 proud; I got my grandfather's record and put it 
 in the Bible, and was so proud of it. Say, I have 
 gotten over that. The man who cannot boast of 
 anything but his ancestors is like a hill of po- 
 tatoes — the best of him is under the ground. 
 But we like to talk about our folks — Hannah, 
 
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 and John and Moses and Daniel and Paul and 
 Timothy, and all the rest of them. Hallelujah! 
 Yes, I am proud of my folks! Blood relations 
 of mine. Before the Cross nobody ever went to 
 heaven only in anticipation of the blood; since 
 the Cross they have had the password, "The 
 Blood." Yes, I want to see our folks, and I am 
 headed that way. I used to have a horse, and 
 when I would drive him away from home I could 
 not make that horse trot unless I would whip 
 him, and he would want to stop at every place 
 I ever stopped; but when I would start home 
 that horse would just trot along — and how he 
 would go! Do you know why he would go so 
 fast? He was going home. Well, God bless 
 you, the older I get the faster I am going toward 
 home, and I am making more fuss over it than 
 I ever did in all my life. A friend of mine a 
 few years ago said, "When Kulp gets older he 
 won't be so radical." But, bless God, I am get- 
 ting worse! I have more to shout over. Glory 
 to God! I did not know there was so much 
 ahead. But listen! You will never get heaven 
 up yonder unless you get heaven here. Heaven 
 is a state and heaven is a place, and you have to 
 have heaven, the state, in you before you go to 
 heaven, the place. Have you got it? Is there 
 
92 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 anything inside of you that would not suit in 
 heaven? Anything inside of you that would be 
 out of harmony in heaven ? God help us tonight ! 
 This is the place to get things fixed up. Amen ! 
 Oh, I believe the Book: "Thou shalt say, thus 
 saith the Lord." What is there beyond? Only 
 two places — heaven and hell. You say, "Brother 
 Kulp, I believe in heaven, but I do not believe 
 in hell." What is your authority for heaven? 
 "Oh," you say, "the Bible." Well, that is my 
 authority for hell. Now, if the Bible is not true 
 in regard to hell, then it may not be true in re- 
 gard to heaven. If ever you lie to me you have 
 robbed me of my confidence, and I will not be- 
 lieve you for five years, unless you get converted, 
 and if that old Book is not true all the way 
 thYough, I have no use for it. I believe it is 
 true in every statement it makes; I believe it is 
 true in every statement it makes in regard to 
 heaven, and I believe it is true in every statement 
 it makes in regard to hell, and I can warn the 
 people. There is a hell, and you and I are head- 
 ed toward an eternal heaven or an eternal hell — 
 only one step, only the thickness of our ribs be- 
 tween eternal heaven and eternal hell. How do 
 you know it? The Word of God says so. Oh, 
 there are only two classes nowadays. I read a 
 
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 statement the other day that every congregation 
 is made up of the righteous and the wicked. "The 
 wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the na- 
 tions that forget God." "The fearful, the un- 
 believing, the whoremonger, the sorcerer, every- 
 thing that believeth and maketh a lie" has an 
 eternal hell awaiting them. Why? Did not 
 Jesus love them? Yes. Did not the Holy Spirit 
 strive with them? Yes. What is the matter? 
 They deliberately rejected Jesus Christ; they de- 
 liberately said "No" to God. Listen! You and 
 I have all the salvation we want; if you want 
 any more you can have it. If you are lost, it 
 will be because you would not be saved. Listen 
 to this : "How often would I, but ye would not." 
 "Ye would not come unto me that ye, might have 
 life." "If any man is witling to come unto me, 
 he shall know the doctrine." Remember, you 
 are wicked because you want to be wicked; you 
 are a sinner because you want to be a sinner. 
 One time a little boy coming home from school 
 heard a man upstairs praying at the top of his 
 voice; and when the little boy reached home he 
 said to his mother, "Mother, what does that man 
 pray that way for ?" The mother said, "He wants 
 to be good." "Well," the little boy said, "Why 
 don't kef 33 Yes, why don't he? You are as good 
 
94 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 as you want to be. Oh, I am not saying that 
 men will not grow. "The path of the just shineth 
 brighter and brighter unto the perfect day." 
 "Evil men wax worse and worse/' Oh, I get 
 sick and tired of hearing people say tp God, 
 "Have your way." Say, brother, you let God 
 have His way with you and He will make you 
 what you ought to be. Do not you get down on 
 your knees and talk about heredity and all that. 
 I know there is a power in heredity, but I know 
 there is a power in the blood of Jesus Christ. 
 
 I would quit preaching and go out of the busi- 
 ness if I did not know that ajl heaven was back 
 of me. I am sure that when I am preaching 
 there is somebody right here by the side of me. 
 You do not see Him and I d/o not; but He said, 
 "Lo, I am with you alway." I at one time an- 
 nounced a week ahead of time that I was going 
 to preach on roller skating, as I have no use for 
 it. If I wanted to send a girl to hell I would 
 send her to the roller skating rink, and I would 
 send her as quick as I would to the dance hall. 
 You will find old widows there skating with 
 boys, and old men with young girls. Lust is at 
 the bottom of the whole affair. I made up my 
 mind I was going to preach against that thing, 
 and I announced it, although I knew three- 
 
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 fourths of my congregation would be against 
 me. When I got up to preach my knees began 
 to shake. I had selected the hymn: 
 
 "Let worldly minds the world pursue 
 
 It has no charms for me 
 Once I enjoyed their pleasures too, 
 
 But grace has set me free." 
 
 Before I got through with that verse God 
 struck me, and I would have stood up there and 
 preached if there had been as many devils there 
 as people. That sermon killed the roller skating 
 rink in that place. The son of the proprietor 
 of the skating rink said, "When that man Kulp 
 comes down town I will show him what I will 
 do for him. ,, But he did not do anything. God 
 managed the whole business. 
 
 There is a hell for those who refuse to walk 
 in the light, and say — if you are not living up 
 to the light that God gives you, you will die and 
 go to hell just as sure as you are living. You 
 do not have to go out in open sin to be lost. All 
 you have to do is just refuse to walk in the 
 light. "If we walk in the light . . . the blood 
 cleanseth" ; but if we refuse to walk in the light, 
 that light becomes darkness. It means an eter- 
 nal hell. Some people do not like for men to 
 preach on hell; but if you cannot get a prayer 
 
96 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 through to heaven, if you die tonight, you will 
 drop into hell just as sure as God is on the throne 
 and that old Bible is true. John Bunyan in clos- 
 ing Pilgrim's Progress said, he saw there was 
 a way to hell from the very gate of heaven. 
 There is a way to hell from the church door, and 
 from the church record. You may have your 
 name on the church book, and partake of the sac- 
 raments and be baptized, but these things will 
 never save you. You have to repent and forsake 
 and believe, and then you will have the witness 
 of the Spirit that you are a child of God. 
 
 I was preaching a little over a year ago in a 
 Union Church that belongs to a coal company 
 up at Marytown, W. Va. God wonderfully 
 blest that meeting, but I know this, that every 
 dispensation that God has given will close in 
 judgment, and every revival service that is re- 
 jected, those who reject it will be visited in judg- 
 ment. I made the remark at this meeting, that 
 if people reject God they will die and go to hell 
 and God will visit this place in judgment. I 
 went there again this summer, and I was in a 
 home taking dinner with a family, and I saw 
 the picture of a young man and young lady on 
 the wall, and I said, "Who is that?" And the 
 mother said, "That is my daughter and her 
 
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 sweetheart. He was killed the last Thursday in 
 the year." That young man was in that meet- 
 ing; the Spirit strove with him, but he said "No" 
 to God. He was in a coal mine and something 
 broke and he was thrown up against the coal 
 overhead, and the top of his head was taken 
 right off, and the blood of the brain spattered the 
 coal overhead. That was Thursday ; the coming 
 Sunday he was to have been married. That young 
 man said no to God's mercy and God followed 
 that mercy with judgment. Oh, there is a hell, 
 and you do not know when you are going there. 
 You do not know who is going there ? Oh, yes ; 
 all the "fearful, and unbelieving, and the abom- 
 inable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and 
 sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have 
 their place in the lake which burneth with fire 
 and brimstone." Yes, and everybody who says 
 "No" to the Holy Ghost. Everybody who re- 
 fuses to walk in the light. Tonight if God should 
 take us we would be just what we are here. If 
 we are unsaved now, unsaved then. Asking God 
 to save you on your deathbed is no more effective 
 than getting down on your knees at night and 
 asking God to forgive you for the sins of the 
 day. God help us ! 
 
 We do not only know there is a hell and know 
 
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 what people are going there, but we know what 
 they are doing in hell. My grandson, Brucy, 
 was taken to a hospital, where he could have the 
 best of attention during his illness. There was an 
 operation going on, and he said, "Shut that 
 door! Shut that door!" "What is it?" "Oh, I 
 cannot stand it!" "What?" "The groaning, 
 the groaning." Could not stand the groaning in 
 the next room. By Sunday every room is rilled, 
 and beyond the partition was a woman dying and, 
 oh, the agony! Brucy said, "What is that?" 
 "That is a woman dying out there. We have no 
 room for her." But the next morning that sound 
 was not heard any more, and he said, "Where 
 is the woman?" and they said, "She is dead." 
 Say, we know what they are doing in hell; they 
 are groaning and crying and biting their lips, 
 and it is eternal despair; it is eternal darkness. 
 They are cursing each other there, cursing 
 preachers who did not preach straight, cursing 
 the Holy Ghost, cursing themselves, condemning 
 their own selves, condemning each other. You 
 know what they are doing in hell, and they are do- 
 ing it all the time, and they are getting worse and 
 worse the longer they are there, and when they 
 have been there ten thousand years they cry out, 
 "How long? How long?" And the answer will 
 
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 come back, "Forever, forever, forever !" Men 
 live thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, severity, eighty, 
 ninety years, and fall away and die, and then 
 have all eternity to call themselves fools. 
 
 Do you know tonight that God saves you ? Do 
 you hear from heaven? Do you have the wit- 
 ness of the Spirit that you are a child of God? 
 Oh, I get a great deal of encouragement from 
 the devil ! When I used to £0 to church, people 
 would get up and say, "Well, I have had such a 
 battle since last Sunday!" And I would say, 
 "Glory to God!" Amen! I know that just so 
 long as I have a battle on hand, there is a victory 
 ahead. Oh, sometimes I go into a meeting and 
 get down to pray, and it seems that every devil 
 is around wanting to get the victory of that 
 meeting, and I begin to shout to myself and say, 
 "There is a victory coming and the devil knows 
 it." Are you having a hard time, as you call it? 
 Oh, do not call it that. The yoke is 
 easy and the burden is light, and if you 
 are a good soldier you will enjoy the 
 fight. Mary Story went to Brother Knapp and 
 said, "Why is it I have such battles?" He said, 
 "Mary Story, have not I heard you pray for God 
 to make you a warrior?" She said, "Yes." 
 "Well, amen! then you must have battles." 
 
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 "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and 
 just to forgive us our sins." I was once in a 
 meeting and there was a woman praying and I 
 thought she was going through, and down went 
 her head, and I said, "She struck something," 
 and up went her head, and I said, "She is going 
 through," and then it went down again, and I 
 said, "Well, she has struck something." 
 At the close of the meeting she came 
 up to me and said, "Brother Kulp, I want 
 to ask you a question." And she said, "If a 
 woman has sinned against her husband, does she 
 have to confess it?" I said, "I leave that with 
 you and God. " She came up the next night 
 and said, "Brother Kulp, I confessed to my hus- 
 hand." And after she did this she was not long 
 getting saved. If we do the best we know how, 
 we have fellowship one with another and the 
 blood of Jesus Christ, His son, cleanseth us from 
 all sin. I was preaching up at Asheville, Ky., a 
 short time ago, and a woman said, "Can I see 
 you in the morning?" I said, "Yes." "What 
 time?" I said, "Nine o'clock." But she came at 
 8:30. When I went in she said, "Brother Kulp, 
 you knocked out all my victory last night." I 
 asked her what was the matter and she told me. 
 I gave her some advice and I wish you could 
 
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 have seen her when she came to that altar that 
 night. She got through, and she walked around 
 there and waved her handkerchief and bobbed 
 her head beautifully. Say — she was glad her 
 victory was knocked out. 
 
 The last time I saw Ed Ferguson he stood up 
 and said, "I am ready for heaven in a moment's 
 notice." In that congregation were scoffers, and 
 they said, "Did you hear what Ed Ferguson 
 said? Said he was ready for heaven in a mo- 
 ment's notice." That man had the experience 
 and he went to heaven in a few months after 
 that — without much notice. God Almighty says 
 to you tonight, "Be ye also ready for in such an 
 hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. ,, 
 
to2 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 VI 
 
 PRACTICAL REGENERATION 
 
 "He that committeth sin is of the devil. Who- 
 soever is bom of God doth not commit sin ,} (i 
 John 3:8, 9). 
 
 This text is the definition of a real, sky-blue 
 Gospel conversion. It does not say if you are 
 sanctified you will not commit sin, but if you are 
 really and truly converted you have gone out of 
 the sinning business. There are two terms used 
 in the Gospels by our Lord Himself, and they 
 are synonymous; that is, you can use either of 
 them in the place of the other in a sentence and 
 you will not destroy the sense. In Matthew, the 
 1 8th chapter, you will find that Jesus says, "Ex- 
 cept ye be converted and become as little children, 
 ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven/' 
 And in the third chapter of John, he says, "Ex- 
 cept a man be born again he cannot see the king- 
 dom of God." We are told if any man be in 
 Christ, he is a new creature. A person must be 
 born again, converted, become a new creature in 
 
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 Christ Jesus, before he can be a candidate for 
 Pentecost. In other words, there must be a birth 
 before there can be a baptism — one must become 
 a child before he can be an heir. We cannot live 
 in the Spirit unless we are born of the Spirit. 
 They that are after the Spirit, mind the things 
 of the Spirit. These truths, it seems to me, are 
 axiomatic — so self-evident they require no ar- 
 gument. One of these texts gives us the 
 signs, the unmistakable fruits of the fact we are 
 born again. Read it — read them both. Doth not 
 commit sin. He that committeth sin is of the 
 devil. The Book teaches everywhere that who- 
 soever committeth sin is the servant of sin. To 
 whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his 
 servants ye are. It is not what people say, nor 
 whether we belong to the church; it is, What 
 does God's Word say? Not what the preacher 
 thinks of us, but what does the Spirit testify to. 
 When we are really converted the old disposi- 
 tion is gone, the old habits are gone, the old lan- 
 guage is gone; we are new creatures, gone out 
 of the sinning business, not only when you are 
 converted, but you had to get out before God 
 would save you. No one can pray in faith who 
 holds on to some sin. Do not tell me that you 
 sin every day. God says he that is converted 
 
icH THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 doth not commit sin. And he that committeth 
 sin is of the devil. As many as are led by the 
 Spirit of God they are the sons of God. If any 
 man has not the Spirit of Christ he is none of 
 His. No one can get located so easily if in any 
 doubt about their relation to Him. Just sit down 
 all alone with your Bible, and then hear what 
 God has to say to you through the Word. Any 
 impression that does not agree with the Word 
 of God is of the devil. Any emotion that does 
 not have the approval of the Word is not of 
 God. You cannot go by your emotions. The 
 Spirit and the Word agree. You never knew of 
 a sinning Christian. I never saw one yet. The 
 very moment a man sins he becomes a sinner, 
 and needs to repent and fly at once to the blood. 
 Repenting is the work of a man who has sinned. 
 Did you ever know an honest thief? Did you 
 ever see a sober drunkard? Did you ever know 
 a truthful liar? You can find all three as soon 
 as you can find a sinning Christian. He that is 
 born of God doth not commit sin. Whosoever 
 committeth sin is of the devil. You do not like 
 this kind of preaching? Of course you do not, 
 but that does not alter the truth, and I did not 
 make this truth. It was God's own truth before 
 
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 you and I were born, and what is true once is 
 always true. 
 
 Conversion is a wonderful change. Read the 
 Word and see what the Holy Ghost has to sav 
 about it. It is a passing from death to life; it is 
 a new creature; it is passing from darkness to 
 light ; it is being taken out of the pit and having 
 one's feet on the Rock; it is having the heart of 
 flesh instead of a heart of stone ; it is being risen 
 with Christ. It is such a wonderful change that 
 everybody knows when and where it took place. 
 I used to preach in my earlier ministry, "If you 
 do not know the very time and the very spot 
 when and where you were converted, then you 
 never were converted. One day a lady and my 
 wife and I were riding along the road when she 
 said, "Brother Kulp, you do annoy me by your 
 preaching." And I asked her, "How do I annoy 
 you ?" She said, "You preach that if you do not 
 know when and where you were converted, you 
 never were converted, and I do not know a time 
 that I did not love Jesus." I had no reason to 
 doubt her word. She lived a consistent Chris- 
 tian life and died in the faith; but I still insist 
 upon it, that nine hundred and ninety-nine thou- 
 sand, nine hundred and ninety-nine out every 
 million know when and where they were con- 
 
io6 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 verted. I can take the devil to the very spot and 
 know the very minute when God came to my 
 soul; and all my sins were forgiven and I had 
 the witness of the Spirit that I was converted, 
 born again, became a new creature in Christ Je- 
 sus. I have never doubted it. 
 
 "He doth not commit sin." Well, let us ask, 
 What is Sin? And you answer, "Any trans- 
 gression of the law of God." Yes, that is Bible 
 and we all agree to that, and any transgression 
 of the law of God requires the blood. Sins of 
 ignorance require the blood. But are we willing 
 now to take all the Scripture definitions of sin? 
 Let us examine, for we want to be right. Here 
 is one, "Whatsoever is not of faith IS SIN." 
 Is that right? Of course it is right. It has the 
 stamp and seal of the Holy Ghost. Then, it is 
 wrong for me to do a thing of which I have 
 any doubt. In other words, doubtful things are 
 wrong — are sinful. "Whosoever doubteth is 
 condemned if he eat" will apply all the way along. 
 I knew an old man who came to the altar, who 
 had for years been making a profession, and he 
 was a good man, living in a community where 
 chewing tobacco among the members of the 
 church was nearly as common as eating bread; 
 and I knew if I could get a doubt in that man's 
 
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 mind in regard to tobacco, then it would be a 
 sin for him to use it, and he would give it up. 
 I told him it was "filthiness of the flesh/' and all 
 filthiness would have to be abandoned. He saw 
 it and gave it up; for to him it was sin, the en- 
 trance of the Word gave light. "He that hath 
 respect of persons committeth sin." God says so. 
 I have thought this is for preachers especially. 
 I have been told by members of the church where 
 I have been in meetings, "If you could only get 
 that man he would be such an addition to the 
 church. " What did they mean? Simply this — 
 he had money, had influence and position in so- 
 ciety. God cares no more for a millionaire than 
 a tramp. All souls are precious in His sight. We 
 dare not be respecters of persons. God says it 
 is sin. I visited a dying woman one time, and 
 as she told me her story, I pitied her from the 
 bottom of my heart. She was one of the neglect- 
 ed ones. She told me, "Once I belonged to 
 church. I lived in a little log house; the pastor 
 went right by my house again and again, and 
 
 went to the big house of Mr. , over on 
 
 the hill. I was a poor woman, and I rebelled so 
 against that treatment, I backslid. " She had 
 been neglected. That pastor — no, he was not a 
 pastor, for a real pastor would not have done 
 
io8 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 it — was a respecter of persons, and sinned. God's 
 Word for it. 
 
 He that is born of God — that is, he that is 
 converted — is a partaker of the Divine nature. 
 Godly means like God. Partaker of the Divine 
 nature means godly. Not, he that is sanctified, 
 but he that is born of God, partakes of the Spirit 
 of God. If any man has not the Spirit of Christ 
 he is none of His. I was visiting once with my 
 wife, and called on a woman who, while in pov- 
 erty knew God as very few know Him. When 
 we entered she was eating dry bread and drink- 
 ing water. I revolted at the sight and asked for 
 permission to go and get her something. She 
 was living in a room, all alone; had two boys 
 well able to take care of her, but they had women 
 of fashion for their wives, and not one of the 
 wives wanted this old saint around. She said to me 
 when I wanted to go and get something for her : 
 "Oh, this is all I need; I have plenty." I sat 
 there with my wife talking to her and the sen- 
 tences that fell from her lips were like strings 
 of pearls. We were talking about being like Je- 
 sus. My wife sat there weeping and said to this 
 old saint, "I often wish I were more like Him." 
 And then came the reply which I have told often 
 to the comfort of many saints: "Child, if there 
 
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 is any resemblance, it shows we are in the fam- 
 ily" Thank God for that. Partakers of the Di- 
 vine nature. Sons and daughters of God. 
 
 "He that buildeth the things which once he 
 destroyed transgresseth the law." Well, then, 
 he sins, for all transgression of the law is sin. 
 It means, if I ever quit a thing because it was 
 morally wrong, then afterward went back to it, 
 then I sinned. Is that right? Seems to me that 
 God says so in this Word. Let us stick to the old 
 Book. I was preaching down in Kentucky, in a 
 grove, where there are a number of professors 
 of holiness who raise tobacco, and I had not 
 been there long before God gave me a message 
 that uncovered the sin and stirred these native 
 tobacco users and growers. One man under deep 
 conviction threw away his pipe and tobacco, 
 and some of the Saints! came to him and asked 
 him, "Did you throw that away because Kulp 
 told you to, or did God?" And soon he went 
 back to his vomit, and sinned. I was at a meet- 
 ing in Indiana, and there was a man at the altar 
 who was much troubled; he was raising tobacco 
 on shares with another man, and he came to 
 me and asked me what he should do. I told him 
 he could keep his word with the other man, but 
 must get out of the business forever. Some of 
 
no THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 this same crowd who were there went to him and 
 said, "We have raised tobacco all our lives and 
 it never hurt us." And they hindered that man 
 in his quest after God. 
 
 God is love, and every one that loveth is born 
 of God. If you are godly, you will love, and 
 love the unlovely, for that is what He does. We 
 cannot carry enmity in our hearts against anyone 
 and keep right with God. We can love people 
 we do not like. How can we? Let me tell you. 
 We like people who are congenial. We love 
 their company; we make friends of them; we 
 esteem them highly. There are other folks who 
 are not congenial. We do not like them, but we 
 must love them and we do. They have souls; 
 Jesus died for them. Perhaps you are not con- 
 genial to them, and they may not like you. But 
 the Spirit of Jesus will not allow us to have any- 
 thing in our hearts against them. I was at a 
 prayer meeting one night where there was a 
 woman who had been seeking God for two years, 
 and she was willing to do anything that He 
 asked — but one — and that was, forgive the man 
 who killed her brother. He was insane, and be- 
 came violently so. They had to send for officers 
 to take him to the Insane Asylum. When they 
 came one of them was afraid of him, and as he 
 
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 was violent, he drew his revolver and shot him, 
 and killed him. Every time that woman came to 
 the altar God would ask her, "Will you forgive 
 the man who killed your brother ?" And every 
 time in her heart she said "No," and went away 
 unsaved. But this night, a rainy night — oh, it 
 pays to go to meeting on rainy nights — God 
 again asked her, "Will you forgive the man who 
 killed your brother?" And she said, "O God, 
 as I hope for forgiveness from Thee, I do now 
 forgive the man who killed my brother." And 
 she came through. I was preaching at a certain 
 church and saw in the meeting a man who was 
 under deep conviction. I went to him and urged 
 him to be a Christian. He looked at me and said, 
 "Must I forgive everybody in order to be a Chris- 
 tian?" And I said, "Yes, sir." "Then," said he, 
 "I will never be one." I could sympathize with 
 that man, if I dared. His mother was left a 
 widow with small children, and in the hour of 
 midnight a man got into the house and outraged 
 that mother, and now this man, a stalwart-look- 
 ing fellow, declared, "I will never be a Chris- 
 tian if I must forgive that fellow." Yet the 
 Word tells us Jesus prayed, "Father forgive 
 them," and Stephen prayed, "Lay not this sin to 
 their charge." If we forgive not men their tres- 
 
ii2 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 passes, neither will our heavenly Father forgive 
 us our trespasses. Forgive as we hope to be for- 
 given. 
 
 God is love, and the Book declares, "Every one 
 that loveth is born of God." When a soul is really 
 converted it wants to do something for them who 
 have despitefully used it. Major Baker, of Bos- 
 ton, told me one day that there was a certain 
 man whom he positively did not like. But the 
 next day after he met God he went down the 
 street and he saw this man standing by the side 
 of the curb alongside of a mule, and said he, "My 
 heart so overflowed with love to that man that 
 I actually loved the mule alongside of him." It 
 was said of Fenelon, "If you want to get him to 
 pray for you, just abuse him and he will be sure 
 to do it." No wonder that a noted sinner came 
 from his home saying, "If I stayed a half-hour 
 longer with Fenelon I should be a Christian in 
 spite of myself." 
 
 "Whosoever is born of God overcometh the 
 world." Conversion makes one an overcomer. I 
 know a little woman who had a hard time getting 
 through to God. She was a "dresser," liked 
 feathers and flowers and jewelry, and she was a 
 long time saying yes to God. She was at the 
 altar — you see I believe in an altar, an old- 
 
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 fashioned mourners' bench — and came night 
 after night ; but one night she said "Yes" to God 
 —a yes that covered all the things that He asked 
 for. She stripped for the race. She took of! 
 her rings, her ribbons, all her fashions, and in 
 twenty-four hours after she was converted the 
 Lord sanctified her in five minutes. She said she 
 had so much to do to get converted that she had 
 no trouble getting sanctified. She was an over- 
 comer from the beginning. I was in the habit 
 of going to church with my parents when I was 
 a boy, and I always sat with my father. I was 
 not allowed to sit in the back part of the church 
 and misbehave, while my father prayed and sang 
 and shouted up front. They were in a protract- 
 ed meeting and it was protracted through several 
 weeks, souls being at the altar and praying 
 through. But there was one woman who came 
 night after night, and never seemed to get any- 
 where. I was always walking with my parent* 
 when I went home after the meeting was out at 
 night, and they would stop at the various corners 
 and talk awhile, and say goodbye, and so one 
 night they were discussing this woman who did 
 not get through, and finally one old saint, Aunt 
 Kitty Crumley, said, "Well, she will get through 
 when she takes oflf that big cameo breastpin." 
 
ii4 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 Of course I was all ears just then> and when I 
 went to church after that I was "all eyes." I 
 wanted to see her "get through," and as I did 
 not know what getting through meant, I was 
 quite certain I would learn when she took off the 
 breastpin, for I could see and know that. So I 
 watched her every night, and one night up went 
 her hands and off came the pin, and she went 
 through. Oh, yes, there is something in it. He 
 that is converted overcometh the world. All its 
 fashions, all its customs, all its laws, and are 
 free from sin. Sometime ago a beautiful young 
 lady came to me dressed in the garb that becom- 
 eth holiness and the house of God, and said, "I 
 want to give you this," and she handed me a 
 string of real pearls — not the Woolworth kind, 
 but the real things. I gave them to the Bible 
 School to be sold for the Rescue work, or Mis- 
 sions — just as the Lord led. 
 
 All unrighteousness is sin. Is this so? God 
 says so in the Word. Well, now, take this truth, 
 will you. It is a most unrighteous thing to owe 
 a man a dollar when you have a dollar in your 
 pocket with which you might pay him. That dol- 
 lar is not yours. There has been reproach 
 brought on the church because some folks are so 
 loose about paying their debts. I was one time 
 
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 enlarging a church, and asking folks for money. 
 I went to the grocer, supposing that as the church 
 was so near his property that he would consider 
 the improvement and give me a donation. When 
 I asked him he said, "Yes, I will give you the 
 bills I have against the members." To him who 
 knoweth to do good, pay his debts, and doeth it 
 not, to him it is sin. If you are not able to pay, 
 go see your creditor — do not dodge around the 
 corner; tell him you are embarrassed, and that 
 you will pay as soon as you have an opportunity. 
 If you want people to believe in you, you must 
 show them the goods. By their fruits ye shall 
 know them. John Finch, of Nebraska, said one 
 time, "Every neighborhood ought to have a re- 
 vival once a year for the sake of the storekeep- 
 ers." I was in a meeting a few weeks ago and 
 a man and wife agreed to sell their home, and 
 then go back to the old community where they 
 once lived, and pay up all they owed. There will 
 be a surprise when that saved couple go around 
 to see the old creditors and shout while they pay 
 up the old bills. I am believing the merchants 
 will be willing to invest in that kind of an expe- 
 rience, and will believe in the salvation of a man 
 who sells his home that he may pay his old debts. 
 That man and wife can sing now, "It is real, 
 
u6 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 yes, it is real, thank God, I know it is real." A 
 man came to me sometime ago and holding up 
 a piece of paper he said, "Do you see that?" Of 
 course I saw it, and asked what it was. And he 
 said, "That is a receipt from the Grand Trunk R. 
 R. I rode on the bumpers sometime before I was 
 converted, and the thing troubled me .so I wrote 
 to the R. R. Co., and asked them what the fare 
 was from Battle Creek to South Bend. And 
 when I found out I wrote them, sent them the 
 money and told them of the circumstance. They 
 thanked me and sent this receipt." I am thinking 
 just now that the R. R. Cos. would all be glad 
 for a revival all over the land. Real righteous- 
 ness settles up whenever it can, and all unright- 
 eousness is sin. 
 
 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the 
 witness in himself. He knows whom he hath 
 believed, and knows he is saved from sin. Read 
 it carefully. He was manifested to take away 
 our sins. He shall be called Jesus, for He shall 
 save His people from their sins. Behold the 
 Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the 
 world. If we confess our sins He is faithful 
 and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us 
 from all unrighteousness. By the grace of God 
 Jesus Christ tasted death for every man. The 
 
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 grace of God which bringeth salvation hath ap- 
 peared unto all men, teaching us that denying all 
 ungodliness, we should live soberly, righteously 
 and godly, in this present world, looking for the 
 gracious appearing of the great God, our Savior 
 Jesus Christ, who loved us and gave Himself for 
 us that He might purify unto Himself a peculiar 
 people. Get it ! Did you ? In this present world 
 and now, He wants some folks who will illus- 
 trate by godly living His power to save unto the 
 uttermost. A man who was seeking earnestly 
 said to a worker, "Give me a promise that I may 
 grasp it." One was quoted and he said, "That 
 is what I want." He believed it and God saved 
 him for Jesus' sake. Believe it, and live it, and 
 you have hastened the coming of our Lord. 
 
n8 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 VII 
 "HAVING NO HOPE" 
 
 "Having no hope" (Eph. 2:12). 
 
 There only two classes of people in this audi- 
 ence — the righteous and the wicked; the saved 
 and the unsaved; the converted and the uncon- 
 verted. We find the two classes in the church. 
 You will find them in our campmeetings. You 
 will find them in our Conventions. To which class 
 do you belong? The converted, or the uncon- 
 verted ? The saved, or the unsaved ? The right- 
 eous, or the wicked? You belong to one or the 
 other. Do you remember when you were con- 
 verted? Do you know where you were convert- 
 ed ? Are you living the life of a righteous man ? 
 Are you living the life of a saved woman? I 
 am not talking to you about your membership 
 in the church; I am not talking about the years 
 gone by, when you put your name upon a church 
 record. Are you saved tonight? Have you a 
 family altar in your home? Have you a place 
 of secret prayer? Are you in the habit of feed- 
 
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 ing your soul on the Word of God ? It is a very 
 easy matter to get located here. The Holy Spirit 
 is absolutely faithful. God is true. The Word 
 of God is the sword of the Spirit. Where do you 
 belong tonight? If before I get through preach- 
 ing, if before the midnight hour should strike, 
 you were to be called into eternity with your 
 present experience, where would you land ? What 
 would be your eternal destiny ? Listen ! For the 
 saved, for the righteous, for the new creature in 
 Christ Jesus — an eternal Heaven; for the un- 
 saved, in the church and out — an eternal Hell. 
 
 Listen to this! My Bible declares positively 
 that the state of the wicked is one of appalling 
 horror. No hope ! " Having no hope," and 1 
 think just now somebody is saying, "Ah, preach- 
 er, that does not mean me ; I hope to go to heav- 
 en." I want to ask you, "Are you saved?" If 
 you are unsaved you have no hope. Any man 
 who is not in Christ Jesus, and Christ Jesus in 
 him, has no hope. I know what you mean, you 
 mean you have a desire. There is a vast differ- 
 ence between a desire and a hope, and I believe 
 that old Bible; I believe it from Genesis to Rev- 
 elation; I believe every line that there is in it. 
 I believe the Scriptures are profitable for instruc- 
 tion of the saved, and the unsaved, and that Bible 
 
120 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 declares most emphatically in my text, that the 
 sinner has no hope. 
 
 What hope has an unrepentant man? Can 
 you tell me? What have you that is lasting? 
 What have you that is permanent? What have 
 you that is inspiring? Nothing, nothing what- 
 ever. Have you wealth? You cannot take it 
 with you. Have you acres? You cannot take 
 them with you. Have you reputation ? You can- 
 not take it with you. The only thing that a man 
 can take with him into eternity is his character — 
 just what God and your wife know you to be. 
 Beloved, the unsaved man, the unsaved woman 
 in this congregation, has no hope in this life. 
 Decay is written on everything. The pulse is 
 beating funeral marches to the grave ; the heart, 
 seventy heartbeats a minute toward eternity — 
 without any hope, without any Christ, without 
 any salvation, going forward to eternal damna- 
 tion — not because Christ did not die, not because 
 it is not true that by the grace of God Jesus 
 Christ tasted death for every man, but because 
 every unsaved man, every unsaved woman in 
 this congregation is going forward to eternity, 
 tramp! tramp! tramp! over the crucified body of 
 the Son of God, over a mother's prayers, over 
 the pleadings of the Holy Ghost, over the prayers 
 
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 of Jesus Christ — going forward to a devil's hell, 
 not because salvation has not been provided, but 
 because "ye would not." And the man who re- 
 sists and grieves the Holy Ghost, the man who 
 crucifies the Son of God afresh, the man who 
 rejects the truth of God, the man who sits in the 
 pew and steels and hardens his heart against 
 the Word of God and holds it aloof from him, 
 and says, "I will not," that man lives without 
 hope, is without hope in this life, and — listen to 
 this! — is without hope in the life to come. An 
 eternal existence, and nothing to sweeten it ! The 
 life in the world, now a thing of the past — the 
 soul in eternity to live forever! Exist forever! 
 Think forever ! Remember forever ! And nothing 
 in all that eternal existence to sweeten one mo- 
 ment of that eternity. "Son, remember!" Re- 
 member what? Back there you had the Word 
 of God. Back there you had the thirty-nine 
 books of the Old Testament. Back there you had 
 gracious providences. Back there you had the 
 Spirit of God striving with you. 
 
 Remember! Here is a young man who came 
 to Jesus, but now he is lost, and in hell he lifted 
 up his eyes, and he begins to think of his past. 
 Nothing in all that past to sweeten that exist- 
 ence. "I went to Jesus; I believed Him to be 
 
122 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 the Son of God; I believed He could answer the 
 query of my soul, satisfy my hunger — I went to 
 Him and said, 'Good Master, what shall I do to 
 inherit eternal life?^ And He made known to 
 me the conditions. He said, 'Go, and sell that 
 thou hast, and give to the poor, and come, follow 
 me, and thou shalt have treasures in heaven.' 
 Yes, I remember, but I said, 'No.' I looked at 
 my possessions, the things of this life, my posi- 
 tion, and I said, 'No/ and I damned my own 
 soul/' 
 
 Here is another soul in eternity; once had 
 houses; once had farms; once had barns; once 
 had acres ; once was rich ; the earth was bringing 
 forth plentifully. Listen to him in eternity: "I 
 look back there, and I said to my soul: 'Soul, 
 take thine ease; thou hast much goods laid up 
 for many years ; eat, drink, and be merry/ God 
 said, 'Thou fool, this night shall thy soul be re- 
 quired of thee/ The goods are back there in a 
 barn, but my soul is poverty stricken. I am lost, 
 and I am lost forever. I was a fool in time, and 
 I will be a fool for all eternity." 
 
 Oh, the awful thought — without hope in this 
 life, and without hope in eternity! To go from a 
 campmeeting like this, to go from a home where 
 you had a mother's prayers, where you had a 
 
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 father's prayers, where you had a family altar. 
 Somebody preaching on this platform since this 
 campmeeting began, said they had a good, old- 
 fashioned Methodist home. That is the kind I 
 had. I never knew a time in my father's house 
 when they did not pray ; I never knew a time they 
 did not have a family altar. There never was 
 a time that this boy could not go home and go to 
 the foot of the stairs and hear somebody upstairs 
 praying. Thank God for my father's prayers! 
 Thank God for my father's life! The preacher 
 in whose meetings I went to the altar thought it 
 was his sermon that moved me ; he thought I was 
 one of his converts. No, sir; the thing that won 
 me for God was my father's prayers. God an- 
 swered my father's prayers. But think of it! — 
 a young man can live in a home where there is a 
 praying father, where there is a praying mother, 
 can listen to the truth of God, can pass that truth 
 by, can be convicted by the Spirit and resist those 
 convictions, can come to a meeting like this and 
 get Gospel truth, backed by the Holy Ghost, and 
 still resist, then lie down and die and wake up 
 in eternity lost forever, no hope here, no hope in 
 the dying hour; and you wake up in eternity, 
 and look back and think, "Father prayed for me. 
 Mother prayed for me. I was surrounded by 
 
124 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 Gospel influences. I knew the old Bible was true 
 — father and mother lived it. Christ died for me. 
 I was under conviction again and again. The 
 Spirit of God pled with me. But I am lost/' No 
 hope in this life, and no hope in the future. 
 Nothing in the past, nothing in the present, noth- 
 ing in the future. What is it ? Everlasting tor- 
 ment. 
 
 See that man die. He has no hope. He is 
 coming down to a deathbed. Come, let us^ go, 
 let us stand alongside of him. If you would 
 stand alongside of as many deathbeds as this 
 preacher has stood by, you would believe when 
 you saw the dying sinner and heard him pray, 
 that there was a need of salvation now. Wait a 
 moment! You say, "Oh, yes; I had some friends 
 who died unsaved, and they never said a word. 
 They died quietly; they manifested no fear." Do 
 you know the reason why? Because the doctor 
 drugged them before they died. If the doctors 
 did not drug the dying sinner, you could not stay 
 in their room. They would scream, they would 
 yell, they would beg, they would pray. A man 
 one time — he and I were friends together, had 
 been soldiers, knew each other well — told me 
 about his wife dying. He said, "George, Lou 
 died so beautifully. She never said a word, had 
 
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 no fear whatever." She died a sinner, she died 
 drugged and without hope. No hope in this life, 
 no hope in eternity! I do not wonder that 
 preacher this morning got down over this altar, 
 got down on his knees, and said, "I am not clear, 
 and I want to be satisfied." It is an awful thing 
 to live unsatisfied. Ah ! you may be in the church, 
 you may be baptized, you may have partaken of 
 the sacrament, you may have your name on the 
 church record, you may die and some preacher 
 stand up and tell what an exemplary church 
 member you have been, but unless you have been 
 born of the Spirit, unless you have an increasing; 
 experience — the path of the just shineth brighter 
 and brighter — unless you have more salvation 
 tonight than you have had in all your life, to 
 die in your condition would be to go to hell. 
 There is no hope for the unrepentant sinner fc Oh, 
 the old Bible says so ; I am sticking to the Book. 
 "Having no hope, and without God." A Christ- 
 less life; a Christless deathbed; a Christless 
 shroud; a Christless casket; Christless at the bar 
 of God; Christless throughout eternity. "Having 
 no hope." Went by the family altar. Went by 
 the old Bible. Went by a mother's prayers. Went 
 by Sinai, as it rolled and thundered, and pealed, 
 "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." Went by 
 
126 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 Calvary, with its cross reeking, dripping with 
 Divine blood. Went by it — what for? To go to 
 hell because you loved sin better than you loved 
 God. Say, beloved, just as sure as God is on 
 the throne, just as sure as that old Book is true, 
 every unsaved man, every unrepentant man in 
 this congregation tonight is without hope. You 
 have got to be separated from sin, you have got 
 to give up sin. You live in the church, you have 
 your name on the church record, going along just 
 as hopeless as the unrepentant sinner outside; 
 for there is no difference between an unrepentant 
 sinner in the church and one outside. 
 
 Listen to this. I was riding in the cars; I 
 think it was up at Ashland, and I read a notice 
 of an Insurance Company. It went like this: 
 "If people today could read the death notices in 
 the paper week after next, they would take out 
 life insurance." Oh, if some men and women in 
 this congregation could read the death 
 notices three months hence — six months 
 hence — you would run to this altar. Lis- 
 ten! Death is on your track. The seeds 
 of death are already sown in your frame. 
 You are staggering toward eternity un- 
 der a weight of sin that would sink you through- 
 out eternal ages, ever down and down and down, 
 
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 the darkness growing darker and darker 
 throughout eternity. Because provision was not 
 made? No! No! No! Christ "by the grace of 
 God tasted death for every man." Every sinner 
 is invited. "Whosoever will, let him come. ,, 
 "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as 
 white as snow." You say, "Yes, Preacher, 
 I know that." Yes, you know it, and 
 you are trampling it under your feet, 
 trampling on the promise of God that you 
 might be partaker of the Divine nature, and you 
 are going forward to a devil's hell — not because 
 you may not be saved, but because you will, not 
 yield yourself unto God. The sin of the men and 
 women in this congregation is not your drunken- 
 ness; it is not your thieving; it is not your lying; 
 it is not murdering your unborn children, or run- 
 ning around with neck and shoulders bare, excit- 
 ing the lust of men in street cars; but listen to 
 this: Your sin is rejection of Jesus Christ; it 
 is unbelief. "The Spirit, when He is come, shall 
 convince the world of sin, because they believe 
 not on me." If you believed God's Word you 
 would be at this altar. "Having no hope." The 
 unrepentant sinner has no hope. 
 
 Now, again. You are condemned already — 
 you who are out of Christ You say, "Oh, no; 
 
128 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 we are not condemned until we get to the judg- 
 ment." That is a lie of the devil. I believe the 
 Bible. Listen to this : "If our hearts condemn us, 
 God is greater than our hearts, and knoweth all 
 things." You are condemned already. The only 
 thing that keeps you out of hell is the mercy of 
 God. "Because sentence against an evil work is 
 not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the 
 sons of men is fully set in them to do evil." That 
 is God's Word. 
 
 Young man, you were here at this campmeet- 
 ing last year. God has spared you. You are 
 harder tonight than you were last year — farther 
 away from God. You have been heaping up 
 darkness and tribulation, and anguish against the 
 day of wrath. Are you ready to accept of the 
 conditions? Listen! "Without hope." Knell of 
 eternal despair! I drove one day by a funeral 
 into a graveyard. Just as soon as the hearse 
 entered the yard, the sexton saw them coming, 
 and he began to ring a bell. Oh, so dolefully did 
 it ring out! It meant another person passed out 
 of time into eternity. I have this thought. The 
 deep, dark, doleful bells of damnation are ring- 
 ing all the time. Hell is as jubilant as hell can 
 be every time a sinner goes by Calvary. Every 
 time a sinner, with feet speckled red with the 
 
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 atoning blood of Jesus Christ, enters the con- 
 fines of the damned, again the bells ring out, 
 deep, doleful, dark, and the ravens of despair 
 perched all over the rugged peaks of an eternal 
 hell, cry out, "No hope! No hope!" Without 
 hope back there upon earth, without hope on a 
 deathbed, without hope in hell, and without hope 
 forever. Write it on the sinner's coffin — "No 
 hope!" Write it on his grave — "No hope!" Write 
 it on his tombstone — "No hope!" Write it on 
 the clouds of God Almighty's justice — "No 
 hope!" Write it on the judgment bar of God — 
 (( No hope!" Then listen to the chorus of the 
 voices ringing throughout the caverns of eternal 
 damnation — it is one thing over and over again 
 —"No hope! No hope! No hope! No hope! No 
 hope!" 
 
 Oh, beloved, it is an awful thing to crucify 
 the Son of God, it is an awful thing to grieve 
 the Holy Ghost. I do not wonder, Brother 
 Compton, you say, "Mind the Spirit/' I do not 
 wonder you say, "Mind God." So many people 
 are not minding God. You are rejecting the 
 truth, resisting the Spirit, you are cursing your 
 own selves, wrapping your arms around the pil- 
 lars of the temple and bringing it down upon 
 your own head — and then an eternal hell, "hav- 
 
130 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 ing no hope." Did you ever read the other part 
 of the verse? — "and without God in the world." 
 No hope in hell, no promise of relief, no ray of 
 light, no gleam of a coming day, none whatever ; 
 increasing, intense darkness. No hope in hell 
 forever, no expectation in hell, no change in hell, 
 only for the worse; fires hotter, darkness more 
 intense. 
 
 Last Wednesday, up in Battle Creek, I went 
 through a cyclone. The wind had been blowing, 
 with some little rain, and cold. The cloud came 
 from the southeast, assumed a funnel shape, and 
 started over toward Battle Creek; it began to 
 roar, and four hundred thousand dollars' worth 
 of property was destroyed in just a few minutes. 
 When it was over people came rushing out of the 
 houses. Some houses were lifted off the founda- 
 tions, others crushed down in the cellars. There 
 were live wires, telegraph poles and trees in the 
 street. But listen ! It only lasted three minutes. 
 A French woman came running up the street. 
 She said, "One time somebody told me, 'If you 
 never prayed before, go down and look at the 
 ocean when it is angry, then you will pray; but/ 
 she said, 'if you never prayed before, just get 
 in a cyclone, and you will pray/ " My wife heard 
 her, and said, "I began praying long ago, glory 
 
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 to God, but I prayed through!'' Listen! That 
 dark cloud only lasted three minutes; but in hell 
 the cyclone of God Almighty's wrath lasts 
 throughout eternity — roaring, swirling, shriek- 
 ing winds of hell, and the soul that rejected 
 Jesus Christ, there under the wrath of the om- 
 nipotent God forever and ever. I am talking to 
 dying men and women; I am talking to people 
 who are making a profession of religion. You 
 may have your names on the church record, but 
 you have not an experimental knowledge of sal- 
 vation. If you should die tonight, you would go 
 to hell. The sinner in the church has no more 
 hope than sinners outside of it. I am talking about 
 unrepentant sinners. God help us to tell the 
 truth. Do not resist it. Hug up close to the 
 truth. 
 
 Listen ! Darkness, misery, suffering — forever! 
 Remorse. Abandoned of God. Here God even 
 in the unrepentant sinner's pathway lets the sun 
 shine on him, lets the rain fall on him, lets the 
 ground bring forth for him, lets the stars shine 
 for him, and the moon shed its pale, silvery light 
 upon him, warns him by the example of godly peo- 
 ple. He may hedge him in for a while by a 
 mother's prayers; he is not yet abandoned of 
 God. If the angels of God could weep, they 
 
132 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 would look over the battlements of God and weep 
 over that young man that is going to hell over 
 the blood of Jesus Christ. But at last death 
 comes, and the man is abandoned of God. What 
 an awful thing ! Without God in this world, and 
 then abandoned of God throughout all eternity, 
 and shut up with devils, and with whoremongers, 
 and drunkards, and everything vile and unclean 
 — not because God would not save vou, but be- 
 cause you would not let Him save you. "God 
 hath not appointed us unto wrath, but to obtain 
 salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ." 
 
 One time a boy nineteen years of age, died in 
 a penitentiary, and the chaplain went to him and 
 said, "Young man, where do your folks live? 
 Mother living?" "Yes, sir." "Does your 
 mother know where you are?" "No, sir; but, 
 chaplain, when I am gone, I would like her to 
 know I am dead, but don't tell her where I died. 
 Don't tell mother where I died." He died in the 
 penitentiary and did not want mother to know. 
 Think of it! Not that mother who went down 
 to death's door for you, not that mother who 
 watched over your early years when your tottling 
 footsteps would have taken you into danger — 
 not that mother, but the Christ that left the glory 
 that He had with the Father, the Christ before 
 
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 whom angels bow, and cry, "Holy, holy, holy 
 art Thou," the Christ that took upon Himself 
 our nature, came down to this old earth and made 
 the land holy because He went there, went up 
 to Calvary and suffered and died on the cross, 
 then down into the grave, and snatched the 
 scepter from the cruel monster, and went up 
 from Mount Olivet and sits on the Mediatorial 
 Throne, and is praying for you — that Christ 
 knows your sinful rejection, knows your rebel- 
 lion, knows you are the author of your own dam- 
 nation; and that Christ tonight puts this camp- 
 meeting, these sermons, across your pathway in 
 order that you may be saved. Brother, do not 
 preach to me, "It is a solemn thing to die." God 
 bless you! it is a solemn thing to live! To live 
 lightly, triflingly, frivolously, carelessly, saying, 
 "No," to Cod, rejecting the truth of God, griev- 
 ing the Holy Spirit; God tugging at your heart- 
 strings, putting you under conviction, surround- 
 ing you with the prayers of loved ones, giving 
 you Gospel sermons, giving you altar call upon 
 altar call, and yet to go into eternity saying "No" 
 to God. No hope! The unrepentant sinner has 
 no hope. Here is the Word of God for it. "Hav- 
 ing no hope, and without God in the world." A 
 
134 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 reign of despair; despair in the midst of awful 
 surroundings. 
 
 I read the other day about the men in the 
 trenches. It said the British and the French 
 were in the trenches, and for three days they 
 were pouring fire on the trenches of the Germans. 
 For one whole year they had been building mines, 
 and then for three days they threw a curtain of 
 fire, shell after shell, on the trenches of the Ger- 
 mans. At the battle of Gettysburg both sides 
 only threw thirty-three thousand shells in three 
 days, but over there they threw thirty-three thou- 
 sand shells in three minutes, always throwing on 
 the trenches of the enemies, and men come out 
 from those trenches insane ; they lost their reason 
 under that awful fire. But listen! That only 
 lasted three days, but the curtain of fire in hell 
 lasts through eternity. "The smoke of their tor- 
 ment ascendeth forever and forever !" Who says 
 so? God Almighty. Eternal remorse! Eternal 
 suffering ! 
 
 There is a man in our city whose wife was 
 dying of a cancer. She was crying, "Husband, 
 if you love me, kill me ! If you love me, kill me ! 
 I am suffering. I am going to die anyhow; it is 
 only a question of a few weeks — husband, if you 
 love me, kill me." That husband went to the 
 
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 doctor. He said, "Doctor, will my wife die?" 
 "Surely, sir." "Doctor, how long?" "Well 
 maybe two weeks. She may die in a week." 
 "Well, doctor, she is crying, 'Kill me/ she is ap- 
 pealing to me, she is saying, 'If you love me, 
 put me out of my misery/ Doctor, I want you 
 to come over and give her a drug that will put her 
 to sleep forever/ , The doctor said, "Do you 
 mean it?" He said, "If you do not do it, I will 
 kill her myself and put her out of her misery." 
 And that doctor went over and gave her the drug 
 and said, "In two hours she will be beyond pain." 
 Listen to this. When the sinner in hell, with all 
 of his awful suffering, seeks death, death flees 
 from him. There is no morphine in hell. You 
 cannot commit suicide in hell. It is an awful 
 thing to die without Christ, having no hope, re- 
 jecting Jesus and going to hell over the crucified 
 Son of God, and that is what every unsaved sin- 
 ner here tonight is doing. Remorse ! Separation ! 
 Darkness! Dying! Forever and forever! 
 
 I lived in the city of Philadelphia when I was 
 a boy. Up at Haddington they had a cancer hos- 
 pital, and men would come out of there with their 
 jaws tied up — cancer doing its work ; with an eye 
 tied up — cancer doing its work; with their body 
 swathed. Listen! They were hopeless. There 
 
136 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 was no hope. On their countenances was writ- 
 ten, "No hope, no hope." Just a little while, and 
 then death. On the countenances of the lost in 
 hell is written in black letters of despair, "No 
 hope; no hope!" On the walls of hell the only 
 mottoes they have read, "No hope ; no hope !" The 
 fiery billows of an eternal hell that wrap them- 
 selves around the naked soul of an impenitent 
 sinner, they roar, "No hope!" and the wail of 
 the damned, as they gnash their teeth and bite 
 their lips, and chew their tongues, and curse the 
 people that told them the truth, and the people 
 that did not live right before them, their one cry 
 is, "No hope; no hope!" Brother, what are you 
 going to do? I repeat what Brother Compton 
 said, "Mind God." "Let the wicked forsake his 
 way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts : and 
 let him return unto the Lord, and he will have 
 mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will 
 abundantly pardon. " 
 
 I was out in Idaho, and I preached one night 
 to a very attentive congregation, and about the 
 first or second night of the meeting a great big 
 stalwart fellow sat in the seats and listened to 
 me — the leading man of the community — as fine 
 a specimen of humanity, physically, as I ever saw 
 in all my life. I gave my altar call, and this great 
 
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 big fellow came up and put his foot upon a chair 
 and said, "I want to say something to you. Do 
 you think there is any hope for me?" I said, 
 "Yes, there is hope for you." He said, "You 
 don't know what a sinner I have been" — and he 
 had been a sinner; was a man of means, a gam- 
 bler and a drunkard, but he wanted God, and he 
 said, "You don't know what a sinner I have 
 been." I told him how Jesus could save to the 
 uttermost, told him to get down, and I got down 
 and prayed for him, and that fellow came 
 through. Listen to this; I want to tell you to- 
 night, "Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall 
 be as white as snow." "Let the wicked forsake 
 his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts : 
 and let him return unto the Lord, and he will 
 have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he 
 will abundantly pardon." Is there any hope? 
 Yes, for a repentant sinner. Yes, for the man 
 that will forsake sin. Yes, for the man that will 
 mind God tonight, there is hope. Calvary ap- 
 peals, Pentecost appeals, the passing funeral pro- 
 cession appeals, the tornadoes and the cyclones 
 and the wars in Europe all appeal. Death is on our 
 track. It will not be much longer till some of us 
 will enter eternity. Have you got right with God? 
 Have you availed yourself of the blood of Jesus 
 
138 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 Christ? Oh, it is an awful thing. "Having no 
 hope, and without God." But tonight God says, 
 "Now is the accepted time, now is the day of sal- 
 vation." Now, twelve minutes of nine. How 
 many of you people are ready for heaven in two 
 minutes? Oh, I was so glad in that cyclone I 
 was saved. When the thing went by I said, 
 "Come on," to my mother and wife; "we'll have 
 a prayermeeting," and we got down on our knees 
 right off and had a prayermeeting and thanked 
 God for taking care of us. Oh, it is a blessed 
 thing to know you are saved. Do you know it? 
 Are you ready for heaven on a moment's notice ? 
 Have you been converted? Have you the wit- 
 ness of the Spirit? Do you know that you are 
 a new creature in Christ Jesus? Are your sins 
 under the blood? Are you indwelt tonight by 
 the Holy Ghost ? There is no hope without Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
 "Lord, I believe were sinners more 
 Than sands upon the ocean shore, 
 Thou hast for all atonement made, 
 For all a ransom Thou hast paid." 
 
 But, brother, you must accept of Jesus Christ as 
 your Savior. Without that you have no hope, 
 and tomorrow is eternity. 
 
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 VIII 
 
 PURITY AND POWER 
 
 "Let thy garments be always white and let thy 
 head lack no ointment" (Eccles. 9:8). 
 
 Power is lacking in the church today because 
 it has forgotten, or overlooked, or neglected the 
 words of the Book, "Come ye out from among 
 them and be ye separate and I will be your God 
 and ye shall be my people." "If any man will 
 be my disciple let him take up his cross daily and 
 follow me." We are called to separation, and 
 God's people from the time He called out Abram 
 from the land of the Chaldeans down to the pres- 
 ent time are a called-out people. The word He- 
 brew means, "the man from the other side." I 
 doubt not this was given to Abram by the folks 
 who knew he had come out. Worldliness today 
 is paralyzing the efforts of the church, and the 
 church is acknowledging it by the desperate ef- 
 forts it is making to find a substitute for the 
 ways of God. Purity and power are the heritage 
 of the church, and the great lack of the church 
 
140 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 today. The church is seeking power while ignor- 
 ing the command, "Be ye holy." Where there is 
 purity, there is power. The Holy Spirit in His 
 fullness comes only to a clean heart. No one can 
 be a temple of the Holy Spirit who has not been 
 made pure through the blood of Jesus. I have 
 seen men down at the altar and going to them I 
 have inquired, "What are you seeking? And the 
 answer has been, "I am seeking power." One 
 can seek power until the day of doom, and never 
 get it. Power must not be the object. Jesus said, 
 "Ye shall receive power, the Holy Ghost coming 
 upon you." First, purity, then power. While the 
 church and the world are yoked up together there 
 is not power to rise above the worldliness that is 
 in the church. The lunch room in the church has 
 taken the place of the class room; the supper 
 room has taken the place of the f< upper room." 
 More people can be gotten out to a church social 
 than to a prayer meeting, and all because there 
 is an effort to please the world, and in so doing 
 the truth of God is ignored. I know of two 
 churches where the church and the moving pic- 
 ture show were yoked up together, and the young 
 people of the League were out on the streets 
 selling tickets for the movie, and the proceeds 
 were divided between the show and the church. 
 
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 Can anyone dare to go to God in prayer and 
 ask His blessing on such an arrangement? 
 
 Purity first, then power. These are insepara- 
 ble. Jesus prayed, "Father, I pray not that thou 
 wilt take them out of the world, but that thou 
 wilt keep them from the evil that is in the world." 
 Purity means separation, and separation means 
 power with God and man. I have known preach- 
 ers and laymen who were prominent in Lodge 
 circles, but I never knew one of them that was 
 active as a soul winner. No one can go through 
 an ante-room where men are smoking and play- 
 ing cards and telling smutty stories, one night, 
 and the next night go to a prayer meeting or a 
 preaching service and have any power with God. 
 Come ye out — and it is the only come-out-ism 
 that I know of that the Word calls for. 
 
 The church in its earlier days was first pure, 
 poor and persecuted. John Wesley dreaded the 
 day when the church would get rich. George 
 Fox dreaded the time when the church would 
 have steepled houses. Today we have both, and 
 if Wesley and Fox were to come back to earth 
 today, it is a question to be considered where 
 could they go to worship. Persecutions spread 
 the fire in Apostolic days — and in later days, too. 
 In a city in England one day two men were ar- 
 
142 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 rested for holding a meeting on the street. As 
 the jail was crowded they could not put them in 
 separate cells, so they were together. Of course 
 they began to pray, and soon were singing like 
 Paul and Silas of olden days, and then they be- 
 gan to shout and the Sheriff said, "Separate 
 those two men." The order was obeyed and one 
 of them was put in a cell with a half drunken 
 man. He began to talk to the fellow about his 
 soul, and soon he had him down on his knees 
 praying. There was a new name written down 
 in heaven, and then there were three of them 
 shouting. The Sheriff happening to come back 
 (I think that God kept him away till the seeker 
 got through), said to the jailer, "Didn't I tell 
 you to separate those fellows?" "I did," said the 
 jailer. "Well," said the Sheriff, "separate them 
 again." And back came the answer, "If you do 
 they will all get it." Oh, yes; this thing is catch- 
 ing when you find the real thing. Jesus knew 
 what He was talking about when He said, 
 "Ye are my witnesses." The trouble is, we are 
 not hot enough today to spread the fire or to in- 
 vite the world's persecutions. It will come if we 
 are true. "Marvel not if the world hate you. It 
 hated me before it hated you." The servant is 
 not above his Lord, and the world today hates 
 
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 godliness. The carnal mind is enmity against 
 God, not subject to the law of God, neither in- 
 deed can be. The church's business is to de- 
 nounce sin. Jesus did it. The Apostles did it. 
 The world, the flesh and the devil are the enemies 
 of the church, to be opposed, not courted. The 
 church might as well yoke up with the devil as 
 with the world. I rejoice to see the Catholic 
 Church in Paris and in France, through the 
 voice of their Cardinal, announcing there will be 
 no women allowed to enter the church who are 
 not dressed "from the chin to the shin." Thank 
 God for that. Why has not American Protes- 
 tantism the grace and backbone to do the same 
 thing? God knows it is needed. The average 
 congregation today is as worldly in its dressing 
 as the theater goers in the city theaters. Joseph 
 Cook, of Boston, once said in one of his lectures, 
 "The church that has the grace and courage to 
 take the whip of cords and drive the money 
 changers out of the temple will take America for 
 Christ when it has two hundred people to the 
 square mile." But where is the church that will 
 do it? When the architect of the church build- 
 ing draws his plans for the church today, he al- 
 ways makes provision for the kitchen, and he 
 does it because he knows the church demands it. 
 
144 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 But let us get down a little closer. The church 
 is made up of units. The individual is the unit, 
 and to him must come home the truth. God de- 
 mands holiness of heart, and where there is holi- 
 ness of life there will be power — with God and 
 men. God deals with us as individuals. I have 
 never yet seen the church in which all were ready 
 for the call of God to revival work. I have been 
 in the ministry forty-seven years, and in the pas- 
 torate thirty-four years and a half, but I have 
 never been foolish enough to wait until the 
 church was all right before I began revival 
 work. Whatsoever any two of you shall agree 
 upon touching any one thing, it shall be done for 
 you. That means a revival anywhere this side 
 of hell if two will agree. God wants it, the 
 church needs it, and the only work of the min- 
 istry is to win souls for Christ — all other things 
 must bend to this. "As the Father has sent me 
 into the world, so have I sent you." "The Son 
 of man came to seek and to save the lost." "Let 
 him know that he which converteth a sinner from 
 the error of his ways saveth a soul from death 
 and hideth a multitude of sins." "The Spirit and 
 the Bride say come, and let him that heareth say 
 come." Oh, there is no evading it, the work of 
 
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 the individual and the church is to win souls for 
 Christ. 
 
 Heaven is pure, the saints are pure, their robes 
 are clean, and God says without holiness no man 
 shall see the Lord. Blessed are they that do 
 His commandments, for they shall have a right 
 to the tree of life and enter in through the gates 
 into the city. It will not do to say, "Well, there 
 are so few that live up to it." There are some 
 who have the blessing. "Abram walked before 
 God," and had the divine commendation. Enoch 
 walked with God. Noah and Job were perfect 
 men. God says so in the Word. Zechariah and 
 Elizabeth walked in all the ordinances of God 
 blamelessly. The command is, "Be ye perfect/' 
 not in your head, but in your heart. Perfect in 
 your motive, loving God with all the heart. God's 
 commands are all enabling acts and the devil has 
 never yet been able to get the enabling act strick- 
 en out. It is not what you profess that amounts 
 to so much; it is the life you live. Let God see 
 you live the Word, practice the Book, and He 
 will take care of all the rest. Show Him the life. 
 One time there was a woman who died, and be- 
 fore she passed away she said to her little daugh- 
 ter, only eight years old, "Daughter, your papa is 
 poor and you will have to do the best you can. 
 
146 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 Mamma has taught you how to work, and you 
 must do all you can to keep the little family to- 
 gether." The little girl was a Christian, and did 
 the best she could ; she worked till the little hands 
 were calloused and then at thirteen she laid down 
 to die. The neighbors gathered around and with 
 tearful eyes watched her slowly going down, and 
 they heard her say, "I will be so ashamed when I 
 see Jesus." One of them said, "Why, darling, 
 will you be ashamed?" The reply came, "I will 
 not know what to say to Him." And then a 
 neighbor said, "Dear, you will not have to say 
 anything; just show Him your hands" Sure 
 enough, those calloused hands would tell the 
 story. So it is the life we must show, and one 
 pure and clean life tells more than all the pro- 
 fession that one may make that is not backed up 
 by the life. God made man perfect, and through 
 the Word of God and the Blood of Jesus, and the 
 indwelling of the Holy Ghost, man is to be made 
 so good and perfect that God can look down at 
 him and be pleased with him. I know man has 
 sinned. I know the power of evil, but I also 
 know the power of grace to deliver and the power 
 of the blood to cleanse from all sin. Do not leave 
 God out of the problem. He can do and will do 
 all we need and all He has promised, if we will 
 
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 simply let Him. Get the text, Let thy garments. 
 etc., Let thy head, etc. Just let God have his 
 way, and He can make you what you ought to 
 be. 
 
 Did you ever get the illustration that God gave 
 an old holiness evangelist of long ago? The 
 house of Israel, God's chosen people, had gone 
 far astray, were given up to idolatry and sin, 
 so much so that the prophet might well have 
 thought it was a hopeless case. So God one day 
 said to him,, "Prophet, I want you to go down to 
 the potter's house, stay with him a while, and I 
 will come see you sometime and you may tell me 
 what you see." And the prophet went down to 
 the potter's house and saw him busily at work 
 on a vessel, and it was indeed beautiful; he ap- 
 plied the wheel to it, he handled it as one who 
 loved his work, and when he saw it was finished 
 he put it up on the mantel and gazed at it as one 
 who was conscious of having done a good work. 
 Then to the astonishment of the old prophet, he 
 went to the refuse heap, and he picked up a ves- 
 sel that was very much marred, and he handled it 
 so very carefully as though he actually loved it. 
 He placed it on the wheel and pressed it so gently 
 to it, and the prophet watched it to see what 
 would be the outcome; and after a while he took 
 
148 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 that vessel that was so marred and which had 
 been on the refuse heap and he seemed pleased 
 with it, and he put it on the mantel and lo, it 
 was as beautiful in the potter's eyes as the other. 
 In a little while the Lord came to see the prophet, 
 gave him a call and said, "Prophet, did you go 
 down to the potter's house as I told you?" "Yes, 
 Lord, I did." "Well, what did you see there?" 
 And the prophet began and said, "Why, Lord, 
 wh^n T went there he was working on a beautiful 
 vessel and I watched him carefully; he handled 
 it so easily and carefully, and it was a joy to 
 watch him; and when he completed it he placed 
 it upon the mantel and then stood and admired 
 it, and Lord, so did I. But what astonished me 
 the most, Lord, was this : the potter went to the 
 refuse heap and picked up a broken and marred 
 vessel, and he handled it with such care and so 
 lovingly, and he placed it on the wheel and 
 manipulated it, and worked so long with it, and 
 seemed so anxious to make something of it. 
 After a while he took it and placed it up along- 
 side of the other one and Lord, it was beautiful" 
 The Lord said, "Prophet, if the potter can take 
 a broken and marred vessel that was once on the 
 rubbish heap, a castaway, cannot I?" 
 
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 Yes, thank God, He can take broken, marred 
 vessels, marred by sin, and make them all over. 
 The Divine Potter can do it, can take the worst 
 of cases and make new creatures out of them. 
 He has done it, and He will do it every time He 
 gets a chance. Some of us were not very far 
 from the rubbish heap, but He took us and He 
 bore with us and He made us over to be new 
 creatures in Christ Jesus. He took a Saul of 
 Tarsus and changed him into an apostle and a 
 martyr. He took a wharf rat and river pirate 
 like Jerry McAuley and made him all over, and 
 he lived so close to God and did such a good work 
 that when he died in New York City, he had 
 the largest funeral the city had ever seen over 
 any of its citizens. Judges and lawyers, preach- 
 ers and laymen delighted to honor the man who 
 was such a splendid sample of God's Divine 
 handiwork. He had been on the rubbish pile, 
 been a castaway, but God took him and made 
 him all over. H took a Valentine Burke, and 
 when he, an old jail bird, could not get a job 
 because he had the marks of sin all over him and 
 nobody wanted him around, he was so homely, 
 when he got down and prayed, "O God, I have 
 sinned so long I have become so homely that no 
 one wants me around, or will hire me for any- 
 
150 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 thing. Lord, please make me goodlooking." And 
 the Divine Potter who had made him all right 
 inside, did as good a job on the outside, and he 
 was promoted till he was the most trusted and 
 honored man in the Sheriff's office in St. Louis. 
 I was one time in a meeting and a man rose up 
 and at once made for the altar. As he went one 
 who knew how wicked and crooked the fellow 
 had been said, "If God does anything for that 
 fellow he will have to make him all over." Well, 
 thank God ! that is just what He does, and what 
 He proposes to do with each and every one who 
 will come and let Him have His way. The joy 
 bells of heaven rang as never before when it was 
 announced that Manasseh, the most wicked king 
 that ever sat on the throne, was saved, for there 
 is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth. 
 
 God has made provision for cleansing away all 
 sin. Let thy garments be always white. White, 
 that means purity. There is a fountain opened 
 unto the house of David for sin and uncleanness. 
 Sin defiles, but the blood cleanses from all the 
 defilement that sin has or can make. Never mind 
 if people do throw mud at you, do not try to 
 brush it off; you will only make it worse. If 
 you are as hot as you ought to be it will dry 
 quickly, and you can shake it off. He shall be 
 
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 called Jesus, because He shall save His people 
 from all their sins. Just let Him have His way 
 with thee. Yonder I see a splendid steamer on 
 the St. Lawrence; she is sweeping along majest- 
 ically and all on board are having a good time; 
 they are going to shoot the Rapids and the far- 
 ther they get down the river the faster the vessel 
 goes. I see the Captain go to the bow and shading 
 his eyes with his hand I see him looking anx- 
 iously toward the shore. Soon a canoe shoots 
 out into the middle of the stream, gets alongside 
 the vessel, and is hauled up — canoe and all. The 
 pilot takes his place at the wheel, and the Cap- 
 tain and the mate and the crew just all sit down 
 and let that Indian pilot have his way. He is 
 straight as a pine tree, has an eye like an eagle, 
 muscles like steel, and they let him have his 
 way, they abandon themselves to the pilot. Look 
 at the vessel; she is sweeping along through the 
 waters, nearing the Rapids, going faster and 
 faster. But they are all unconcerned; all they 
 have to do is let the pilot have his way, and he 
 knows where the deep waters are, where the dan- 
 gerous rocks are, and soon they are in peaceful 
 waters, because they let him have his way. So 
 with us. All we have to do is to get the Pilot on 
 board, abandon all to him and just let Him have 
 
152 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 His way, and we can rest knowing that in His 
 hands all is well; and He cannot make any mis- 
 takes; He will bring us to the desired haven. I 
 have heard folks pray, "O God, have thy way," 
 and I have thought, "Let Him have His way with 
 thee, and all will be well." 
 
 Let thy head lack no ointment. Anointing was 
 for two parties — Kings and Priests, and under 
 the Dispensation of the Holy Ghost in which we 
 live, we all are Kings and Priests, and God will 
 use us if we are kingly in his sight. There are 
 anointings for service, and every time we go to 
 battle we are in need of the anointing oil. Oil is 
 a type of the Holy Spirit and we all admit "with- 
 out Him we can do nothing." God says, "Tarry 
 ye until ye — " and we are not ready to go out 
 unless we are endued with power from on high. 
 All the men God has signally used in the days 
 gone by have been men who have tarried, wait- 
 ed before Him. Mbody tells us distinctly of the 
 time when he waited for the Holy Ghost. Finney, 
 Purdy, Asbury, and all others who were great 
 men for God in their time were men who had 
 tarried at Jerusalem. If you want to be a soul 
 winner, read the Acts of the Apostles, and see 
 where their power came from. I had in my 
 library a number of books written by men who 
 
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 were soul winners, for all through my ministry 
 I have known the only thing a man can do, the 
 only way to fulfill one's ministry, is to win souls. 
 But one day it came to me to read the Acts and 
 find out for myself how these men became such 
 soul winners. And I found it out. So may you 
 if you really want to. 
 
 Priests were anointed for service, and so may 
 you, so must you be, for as I said, in this Dis- 
 pensation of the Holy Ghost, we are all priests 
 unto God. It is the business of a priest to make 
 intercession for others. Is there a greater need 
 today for anything more than for men who will 
 intercede, who will stay in their closets and pray 
 for a lost world? Men and women who have 
 the gift of the knees are wanted everywhere. 
 Mr. Finney was accompanied by a man who 
 would remain on his knees all the time that he 
 would be preaching — just in prayer for God's 
 blessing on the Word. Closet Christians are 
 scarce, but are much needed. How it would en- 
 courage the heart of the preacher if he knew 
 some of his people were travailing in prayer 
 while he was in the pulpit. Oh, how the church 
 has forgotten that if we would do business for 
 God we must first do business with God. First, 
 do business with Him. Let thy head lack no 
 
154 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 ointment. God will empower you, if you will 
 let Him do it. He will anoint you to pray if you 
 really want to pray. And when the anointing 
 comes, when the Spirit of intercession comes on 
 you, then the answer will soon follow. Pay the 
 price. Pray through, and know you have the 
 answer. The Holy Ghost fell on all them that 
 heard the Word. Claim it now, while I am 
 preaching, while you are reading. Stay not out 
 of your inheritance one moment longer. Heaven 
 wants you to have it, earth knows you need it. 
 your own soul cries out for God. Now is the 
 accepted time, now is the day of your salvation. 
 May God place on us all the spirit of earnest 
 prayer. 
 
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 IX 
 BE YE READY 
 
 "Prepare to meet thy God" (Amos 4:12). 
 
 I stood on the firing line, when I was a boy, 
 just preparatory to going into battle on a charge, 
 
 and Charley H , who, if he is alive yet, lives 
 
 in South Easton, Pa., stood alongside of me. We 
 knew we were facing the enemy and facing death, 
 and the only preparation that he thought of was 
 this: He said to me, "George, if anything hap- 
 pens to me, you write my folks." That is the 
 only thought he had about it. Inside of the next 
 hour, during the progress of that battle, he 
 might have been sent into eternity, but no 
 thought of the future. 
 
 We are facing eternity. Death is at our el- 
 bow. Just the thickness of our ribs between us 
 and an eternal heaven or an eternal hell, and God 
 is doing His very best in order to get us in har- 
 mony with Himself. I have listened to these men 
 preach; 1 have said to myself, "They are God's 
 messengers; they have God's messages, but how 
 many are heeding ? How many are minding the 
 
156 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 Holy Ghost? How many are in harmony with 
 God? How many are ready to meet God on a 
 moment's notice? How many have the witness 
 of the Spirit, not only to their forgiveness, but 
 to their cleansing? How many realize the sins of 
 the past are under the blood? How many think 
 for one moment that we are dealing with God?" 
 And please remember this, we must do business 
 with God before we can do business for God. 
 One cannot work successfully for God unless one 
 has the consciousness within oneself that oneself 
 is right with God. Have you done business with 
 God? Have you heard from heaven? Are you 
 ready for whatever a day may bring forth ? The 
 Old Testament and the New unite: "Prepare to 
 meet thy God." "Be ye also ready; in such an 
 hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh." 
 "To day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not 
 your hearts." Men grow harder in a campmeet- 
 ing, or they get nearer to God. Resisting the 
 truth brings hardness of heart. You must do 
 business with God. You cannot put God out of 
 your life. There may be jangling voices all 
 around you, but above them all, through them all, 
 in the Word, by the Holy Spirit, in the provi- 
 dences of God, you will hear my text — "Pre- 
 pare!" Something more than singing; some- 
 
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 thing more than church membership; something 
 more than profession; something more than 
 campmeeting; something more than a periodical 
 spasm. "Prepare !" Somewhere down the road — 
 one block — one mile — one month — one year — to- 
 morrow, it may be, but somewhere in that imme- 
 diate future we must do business with God, on 
 conditions, or be lost eternally. 
 
 I was preaching down in Louisiana, was invited 
 down there by a couple of ladies who were sanc- 
 tified on these grounds a few years ago — was 
 preaching in the courthouse, and some of the 
 ladies came to me the next day and said, 
 "Brother Kulp, the people don't like your propo- 
 sition/' I thought to myself, "Proposition — 
 propostion — proposition ?" And the Holy Ghost 
 said to me, "What they don't like is God's condi- 
 tions." That is the trouble with people now — they 
 do not like to meet conditions. But you must, or 
 be eternally damned, eternally lost. I should not 
 wonder that while I am preaching, your life will 
 come up before you. The Holy Ghost will give 
 you a retrospective view of your life, and things 
 you do not want to think of, things you do not 
 like to think of, and things you would gladly 
 hide, the Holy Ghost will bring them before you. 
 You must do business with God, on God's terms, 
 
158 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 on God's conditions. Preparation to meet God 
 implies that very thing. 
 
 You take the Word and read it carefully, and 
 find here that in the past men have had to deal 
 with God. A world ignored Him, a race united 
 in ignoring Him, but there came a time, not when 
 the patience of God wore out, but there came a 
 time when God was grieved as He looked at man 
 in his sinfulness. And all the sins that they had 
 in that day, all the sins before the Flood, all the 
 sins that were in the cities of the plains, all the 
 adulteries, all the licentiousness, all the bestiality, 
 all the brutality that the carnal nature had before 
 God sent the flood and wiped out a race, before 
 He sent the fires on the cities of the plains, before 
 He gathered the legions of Rome with their 
 eagles, around the city of Jerusalem, this world 
 has today, and sin is just as hateful as it was 
 when God sent the flood and destroyed the ante- 
 diluvians, or when He sent the fire and destroyed 
 the cities of the plains. Sin is no joke. Sin is 
 no dream. Sin is an awful, terrible reality. A 
 ttian must meet it, and meet the consequences of 
 it at the day of judgment. You try to put the 
 messages away. Whenever you try to put a mes- 
 sage of God away from you, God will not only 
 
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 repeat it, but He will add more to it. I will 
 prove it. 
 
 Jeremiah called for Baruch, and he said, "I 
 want you to take it down carefully. I have a 
 message from God for these people. Write it 
 down carefully. Don't miss a word. Listen at- 
 tentively." And Jeremiah repeated the message 
 that God gave him, and Baruch wrote it down, 
 w'ord for word, and after a while he read it to the 
 nobles of the king, and they said, "Where did 
 you get it?" "Got it from Jeremiah." "Did you 
 take it down from his lips?" "Yes." "Word for 
 word?" "Yes." "Just exactly as he said it?" 
 "Yes." "Well, it means destruction, it means 
 death, it means danger for the king." And they 
 went to the king, and the king said, "I would 
 like to hear it." They sent for Baruch, and Je- 
 hudi borrowed from Baruch the message, and 
 took it before the king, opened it and read it, 
 and as he read it he took out his penknife and 
 cut it off and threw it into the fire. Then he read 
 further in the distasteful message. Say, listen! 
 The message that is most distasteful to you, is 
 the very message you need. I read an advertise- 
 ment of a book the other day. Dr. Agan Beet, 
 of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, in England, 
 
160 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 was the author of it. The title of the book was, 
 "The Last Things/' and in that book he makes 
 this remark, that men today do not dare to preach 
 on hell as John Wesley preached it, and he even 
 went farther, and said in these days they do not 
 even dare to preach as Spurgeon preached fifty 
 years ago. Listen ! On this campground we will 
 preach anything God Almighty gives us. We 
 have to preach the truth. Jesus Christ was pray- 
 ing and He said, "Father, sanctify them through 
 Thy truth. Thy Word is truth." And you want 
 the truth, and when you get it you will get the 
 Word, and the Word says, "Prepare to meet thy 
 God." 
 
 Jehudi took the message, but it was distasteful, 
 and he cut it up, one piece after the other, and 
 threw it into the fire, until the whole message was 
 destroyed. And God said, "Jeremiah, get your 
 stenographer." And he got his stenographer, 
 and God gave him another message. Listen ! He 
 not only gave him the whole message, but he 
 "added thereunto many like words/' God will 
 not only give you truth that is distasteful, but 
 He will give you truth that will drive you into 
 a corner, that will drive you to surrender, or 
 where your will becomes so hardened you look 
 
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 God in the face and defy the very providences of 
 God and the Holy Ghost who applies the truth. 
 I am not a popular preacher, and / do not want 
 to be. Popularity is a nosegay in the buttonhole 
 of a corpse. I am here to give you God Al- 
 mighty's truth. According to that Word nations 
 ignored the messages, and whenever they did. 
 ruin and death followed. And every person in 
 the sound of my voice, I do not care how loud 
 you shout, nor how high you jump, nor what 
 church you belong to, when you are not obedient 
 to the messages that God sends you through the 
 Word, and by the Holy Ghost, you will lose your 
 soul eternally, and die in the church, and go to 
 hell. That is God's truth. You do not like these 
 sermons; you want to be patted on the back; 
 you want bouquets. You want somebody with 
 one of these sprayers to spray you with perfume, 
 and then you want to go home and say, "Wasn't 
 that a beautiful sermon?" Over in my room I 
 got down on my knees and told God I wanted His 
 message. What we want is God's thought for 
 this hour. 
 
 Now, listen ! God must be reckoned with. Oh, 
 it will ring down through the corridor of your 
 being, every truth you ever heard and rejected, 
 
162 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 throughout the ages of eternty. Do not talk to 
 me about growing old. Man never grows old. 
 The mountains are old. No mountain today is 
 as high as it was years ago. Corrosion is going 
 on, they are going down, lowering. Man never 
 grows old. He was made to live throughout the 
 ages of God, and all down through the eternal 
 ages there will ring through the corridor of your 
 being the text of tonight — "Prepare to meet thy 
 God." And if you fail to do it, it will be an 
 eternal hell, midst eternal burnings, midst eternal 
 damnation, because you were such a fool you 
 trampled the blood of Jesus Christ under your 
 feet, and went to hell, knowing you were doing 
 it. You cannot sin and get away with it. Oh, 
 men have tried to put God out of their lives. 
 Listen to a fool. Jesus Christ tells us God said 
 he was a fool. What did he do? Put God out. 
 "I will pull down my barns. / will build greater. 
 / will bestow my goods in a barn. / will say to 
 my soul, 'Soul, eat, drink, be merry. Thou hast 
 much goods laid up for many years' " — in a barn. 
 Many Liberty bonds, many Victory bonds — so 
 many acres of land — so much money in the bank 
 —so much stock. But listen! "But God." Oh, 
 there will come a time when God will step in. 
 
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 There will come a time when God will be heard. 
 There will come a time when God will show His 
 hand. But God said, "Thou fool. This night 
 shall thy soul be required of thee." 
 
 Oh, beloved, you must take God into account. 
 "Is not this great Babylon that I built? These 
 hanging gardens, these walls, a hundred feet 
 high! These towers on these mighty walls! This 
 river running through the city! Is not this 
 great Babylon that I built ?" But God— God 
 stepped in, as Doctor Godbey told you the other 
 morning. For seven years he went out and 
 grazed with the cattle. "But God!" 
 
 Oh, I believe that God will put the sins of 
 anyone under the blood. I believe the blood will 
 cover them. But listen ! It is an awful thing to 
 have a polluted memory. A young girl was one 
 time betrayed. Her innocence was gone — a mere 
 child, and when the baby was born she left it 
 under a hedge in the cold, cold weather, and 
 came away and heard the wailing of that baby. 
 Oh, the wailing of that baby! And it stayed 
 there until it died. Godly women looked after 
 her; godly women succored her; godly women 
 helped her; godly women pointed her to Jesus, 
 and she became a Christian and lived on through 
 
164 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 years, but every once in a while she would tell 
 her bosom friends, "Oh, I can still hear the wail 
 of the baby in the hedge !" 
 
 Oh, listen! It will be an awful thing in eter- 
 nity, when there are some spirits that come into 
 your vision, and come before you, and look 
 would-be-not mothers in the face, and say to 
 them, "Oh, if it had not been for you I might 
 have had a body, I might have lived in that body. 
 I might have glorified God. I might have won 
 souls. But you deprived me of my body." It 
 will be an awful thing to meet those spirits in 
 the other world that you deprived of a body by 
 murdering them before they were born. Oh, it 
 means something to prepare. It means some- 
 thing to get right with God. It means the for- 
 saking of sin. It means the abandonment of 
 and confession of sins. It means getting down on 
 your marrow bones and staying there before God 
 until God searches you through and through. 
 Preparation means forsaking. Preparation 
 means restitution. Preparation means restora- 
 tion. Preparation means all of that before you 
 can believe God for salvation. Brother Slater 
 said he read in a book that an evangelist went 
 around and each year counted the same folks 
 
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 some other evangelist counted the year before. 
 ,You know why? Because of lack of straight 
 Gospel preaching. The Gospel is the power of 
 God unto salvation today wherever it is preached 
 and believed; and the great trouble is, there is 
 not faithful dealing with souls down here at the 
 altar. It is a good thing to leave a soul to the 
 Holy Ghost. He will deal with it, and He will 
 deal faithfully. He did with me. I did not have 
 anybody around me when I was seeking. The 
 first night there were a few, but I went home 
 and put the thing through on my knees — morn- 
 ing, noon and night, and there was not anybody 
 there to talk to me and make it easy for me. The 
 Holy Ghost was making it hard for me. The 
 Holy Ghost was going to the bottom of things. 
 What we need today is to leave people to the 
 Holy Ghost. I am not saying the former days 
 were better than these. I do not believe it. God 
 is the same. The old Bible is the same. The 
 Holy Ghost is the same. Man's needs are the 
 same, and man needs the truth today just as 
 much as ever he did in the past, and men today 
 need to go through on God's lines, and meet the 
 conditions that God lays down right here in the 
 Word. 
 
166 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 "Prepare to meet thy God." You must meet 
 Him, and meet every sin you ever committed, 
 down on your knees at some altar of prayer, or 
 else meet them up yonder at the judgment seat 
 of Christ, Where it will be too late to pray. I 
 believe that when I as a sinner came before God 
 in prayer, that He brought up before me every 
 sin I ever committed, down there on my knees, 
 and the devil came and said to me, "Look here, 
 you have been such a bad, wicked boy, Jesus 
 Christ can save everybody else, but He cannot 
 save you." Let me repeat it: You must meet 
 your sins on your knees, and confess out before 
 God, or else you will meet them at the judgment 
 seat of Christ, where it is too late to confess. 
 
 I was preaching last August. A young girl 
 came there, and she did not think much of this 
 preacher. I was preaching every night and 
 pouring on the truth, just as God gave it to me, 
 and she sat away back the first night she came — 
 was almost in the rear of the Tabernacle. The 
 next night she came she was four or five seats 
 farther front. The next night she came she was 
 farther up yet, and the next night she was nearer 
 the front, and then one night, about 10 o'clock, 
 that girl came to the altar. I wish you had heard 
 
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 her pray. She prayed until half past 12 at night, 
 and she prayed through, and that campground 
 was just one scene of glorious revelry when that 
 girl got through. Let me tell you how she 
 prayed. "O God! O God! If you will only for- 
 give me I will never drink any more wine. I 
 will never go to any more skating rinks. I will 
 never go to any more dance halls. I will never 
 run with any more married men. I will never 
 kill any more babies. I will tell my husband all 
 about it, O God, if You will only save me !" That 
 is the kind of confession that she made there on 
 her knees, and about half past 12 at night, God 
 saved her. 
 
 You say, "Preacher, why did you preach that 
 way?" I will tell you why. Down there in that 
 town they had water works, a great big reser- 
 voir, and they emptied that reservoir one time in 
 order to clean it out, and found fifty babies in 
 it, and the preachers in the town told me of it 
 more than once. We have got to preach straight. 
 It is murder, murder, murder ! Not merely tak- 
 ing a knife and driving it home in somebody's 
 back, but the blood of unborn innocents on their 
 fingers, going into eternity, and bearing evidence 
 of their damnable act to the judgment throne of 
 
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 God. Do you believe God will forgive it? Yes, 
 I do; but it has to be confessed. I was preaching 
 in that Campmeeting, and I had my meals on the 
 ground in the dining hall. I had a beautiful 
 room about a block and a half from the camp- 
 ground. I preached one night, and God helped 
 me. Oh, how God did help me preach, and the 
 next day a man came to me, threw his arms 
 around my neck, and said, "I went home and 
 confessed to my wife last night." He said, "I 
 had confessed to her before, but the way I con- 
 fessed to her was this: I told her that when I 
 got drunk, before I was married, that I did 
 things a drunken man did." He said, "That is 
 all the confession I made, but after I heard you 
 preach last night, I went home and told my wife 
 all the sins I committed, and she said, 'Hus- 
 band, I forgive you/ " How much better he felt. 
 About halfpast 9 the next morning, in a beau- 
 tiful automobile, a man with his wife drove up 
 in front of where I was stopping. He came to 
 the door and said, "Mr. Kulp, I want to see you. 
 I heard you preach last night/' He said, "There 
 is my wife out there. She wanted to come with 
 me." He said, "Wife, come in. Mr. Kulp is 
 here." And they came into my room and sat 
 
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 down, and he said, "Oh, if I had only heard it 
 preached before ! If I had only heard it preached 
 before!" That night, in preaching, I preached 
 this: "Unconfessed sins never go under the 
 blood." And that man heard me preach, and 
 went home and said as he went home, "I will con- 
 fess to my wife." He was a moneyed man, a 
 business man. He said he was down in the cellar 
 helping to fix some boxes, and his wife came 
 down there and he said, "God sent her down here 
 that I might make the confession." He con- 
 fessed, and said, "Let's go see the preacher." 
 And they drove over to see me that morning, 
 and he said, "Preacher, I never sinned against 
 my wife until after our last child was born; but 
 I was in a city, putting up at a hotel, and a 
 woman was stopping at the hotel. They were 
 going to move there, and her husband was back 
 in the town where they were moving from, and 
 she was there. I was standing in front of the 
 postofnce one day, and she came along and said, 
 'Are you going down to the hotel?' I said, 'Yes/ 
 and I went down to the hotel and roomed on the 
 same floor w r ith her, and she said, 'This is my 
 room/ And I said, 'That is mine/ and she came 
 into my room, and I sinned against my wife. If 
 
170 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 somebody had only preached, 'Unconfessed sins 
 never go under the blood/ I would never have 
 done it." And there stood his wife, and her 
 heart breaking, and she was weeping. 
 
 Say, listen! Unconfessed sins never — never — 
 never go under the Blood. Here is the text — 
 "Prepare to meet thy God." God is the friend of 
 every repentant sinner. But every sinner who 
 wilfully continues in his sin, runs against the 
 bosses of Jehovah's buckler, and that Bible says 
 that God is angry with the wicked every day. 
 There is no soft solder about that. There is no 
 sentimentality about that. I am giving you God 
 Almighty's truth, and I do not care how much 
 money you have, how respectable you are in the 
 society where you move, I do not care what your 
 reputation may be, if there is one single sin be- 
 tween you and God in all your past that is not 
 repented of, and you have not taken God's way, 
 and met God's conditions, that sin will sink you 
 into the devil's hell, though the preacher may 
 preach a beautiful sermon and eulogize you, and 
 pass you into the gates, amidst the acclamations 
 of angels, but you will be damned because of un- 
 repented sins. Do not tell me a man cannot live 
 without sin. A man cannot be saved until he 
 
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 quits sin. A man has to go out of the sinning 
 business. 
 
 I was preaching not far from here, and a man 
 was at the altar. He said, "Yes, I have got 
 through. There is one thing yet I have got to 
 confess to. I was hurt, and I claimed the benefit 
 of a compensation law, and I have been paid a 
 part of it, but I will not take the rest, for I was 
 not hurt as bad as I let on." 
 
 You are not dealing with man. You are not deal- 
 ing with preachers. You are dealing with the 
 Holy Ghost. I should not wonder but you would 
 surprise some folks in your community if you 
 would go around making things right. They 
 would look at you in astonishment. One time I 
 stopped in Indianapolis; just had time to run in 
 and get my dinner, and the dinner was fifty 
 cents, but it did not have cantaloupe on the bill 
 of fare for the fifty cents, and I wanted a piece 
 of cantaloupe, and said to the waiter, "Bring me 
 a piece of cantaloupe." He brought it, and I 
 went up and paid my bill and I got into the car. 
 I said, "There, I did not pay for that canta- 
 loupe !" I said, "The first time I am in Indianap- 
 olis, I will pay for that cantaloupe." I was back 
 about a year afterward, and I walked into that 
 
172 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 restaurant and went up to the clerk, and said, 
 "Is here where you take the money for dinners 
 and suppers?" And he said, "Yes, sir." A po- 
 liceman sat right there. I said, "Well, I was 
 here about a year ago, and got a fifty-cent din- 
 ner and ordered a piece of cantaloupe that did not 
 belong to the dinner," and I said, "here is fifteen 
 cents; I want to pay for it." He looked at me, 
 and the policeman looked at me. I guess he 
 thought I was an innocent just escaped. Oh, I 
 should not wonder a bit but what the grocer and 
 the shoemaker and the tailor, and a few other 
 business men in town might be greatly benefited 
 and highly astonished, if you would get enough 
 religion to go around and straighten up the past. 
 That is what preparation means, and I had to 
 write some letters, and I had to send some money. 
 Oh, beloved, it means something to prepare to 
 meet God. If the Holy Ghost does not back that 
 up, don't you move; but if the Spirit of God 
 applies that truth, you mind the Holy Ghost. 
 How are we going to meet God ? Red-handed ? 
 
 One time a British vessel was after a smug- 
 gler, and the captain of the smuggling vessel 
 said, "There comes a British vessel. We will 
 have to throw the cargo overboard." And so 
 
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 they went down in the hold and were throwing 
 it out, and throwing it out, and by and by they 
 came up on deck after having thrown every bit 
 of it out, and they said, "But it floats!" And 
 there was the cargo floating. Say, listen! It 
 floats. You have left a trail behind you, and I 
 want to tell you, all the money you can give in 
 a campmeeting, and all you can unload, never — 
 never — never will atone for your sins in the past. 
 It will take the blood of Jesus Christ. 
 
 Now wait a moment. In some places restitu- 
 tion has gone to seed. You say, "What do you 
 mean, preacher ?" I will tell you what I mean. 
 I have heard people get up and testify, and they 
 said, "I could not get right until I made restitu- 
 tion, and I made the restitution, and everything 
 was all right." I do not believe it. Restitution 
 does not save you, and if you could undo every 
 sin you ever committed, if you could restore ev- 
 erything you ever wronged anybody of, it would 
 not save you. It takes repentance toward God, 
 and faith in Jesus Christ. Listen, brother! If 
 you cannot stand this kind of truth, what are 
 you going to do when you meet the God that gave 
 it? Jesus Christ said, "Thy Word is truth." 
 
 Now, again — your church membership. I 
 
174 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 would rather be a sinner outside of the church, 
 than a sinner inside. I think I would have a 
 better chance, that there would be a greater 
 probability of my getting to God, if I was out- 
 side of the church, than in. The devil would say, 
 "Now, don't go back on your profession. Now 
 don't dishonor your church. Now what will 
 your folks think of you?" It is not what folks 
 think. It is, what does God think? Here is 
 a woman dying. Mrs. Norris, a woman of the 
 same church, came into the bed chamber. The 
 woman looked up and said, "Oh, Mrs. Norris, 
 isn't this awful, to be forty years in the church, 
 and to die and be lost!" I used to labor some 
 years ago with Doctor Keen. I was wi+h him 
 in a campmeeting up at Bay View, Mich. Listen 
 to what he said just before he died. He said 
 that 75 per cent of the church members that he 
 was called upon to pray with before they died, 
 he had to pray with them that they might be 
 saved. Good Lord help us ! How is it with you 
 tonight? May God wake us up here! 
 
 Preparation. When? Now. "Now is the ac- 
 cepted time, now is the day of salvation." You 
 may be summoned into the Divine Presence any 
 moment. I knew the president of a bank — I will 
 
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 not tell you where it was, but I was in his private 
 office one day, and he had been a warm friend 
 of mine for years. I had preached the funeral 
 sermon of his father, who was a good, old-fash- 
 ioned Methodist, and had real Bible salvation. 
 This president said to me, "Mir. Kulp, there is 
 one thing I hate (he was president of a state 
 bank), at any moment the state inspector can 
 walk into this bank. He can demand of me to 
 furnish all of my books, to furnish all my pa- 
 pers. I will have to show him the whole thing, 
 let him examine it. He can come whenever he 
 pleases, and I have got to pay him ten dollars 
 a day, and," he said, "how I do hate having that 
 inspector, that bank examiner, come around." 
 
 The Holy Ghost is an Examiner, and while I 
 am preaching He is applying the truth, and to- 
 morrow is eternity, and in that eternity is the 
 great white Judgment Throne, and men are go- 
 ing to be judged for the deeds done in the body. 
 God knows every heart. "Go call thy husband." 
 "Why, I haven't any husband." You told the 
 truth then. The man you are living with now 
 is not your husband. You have had five. "Who 
 said so?" The Man that is going to be the Judge 
 out yonder. He knows. He knows all about it. 
 
176 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 There is no secret history He does not know. 
 There is nothing that He does not have on rec- 
 ord. During the war the Department of Justice 
 sent for me, and I went over there with a friend 
 of mine. I was introduced to the gentleman, 
 Mr. Smith, and he said to me, "Well, Mr. Kulp, 
 you were out preaching for that pro-German 
 the other night, wasn't you?" I said, "Pro- 
 German? No, sir; that man is not a pro-Ger- 
 man." He called for somebody, and they brought 
 out a pile of papers. He said, "Here we have it. 
 Here is what he said. Here is where he said 
 it. Here are the witnesses. We have got the 
 record here." And that man did not know a 
 single thing about that record — but they had it. 
 Listen ! God Almighty has got your record, and 
 it is your record you are going to face, and 
 preparation to meet God means canceling that 
 record on God's conditions. What are they? 
 Repent. That means, go out of the sinning busi- 
 ness. What are they? Confession. "If we con- 
 fess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive 
 us." What are they? Forsake. "Let the wick- 
 ed forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his 
 thoughts : and let him return unto the Lord, and 
 He will have mercy upon him: and to our God, 
 
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 for He will abundantly pardon." Oh, brother, 
 God has the record. But listen ! I want to tell 
 you something tonight. The law, the ordinances, 
 were against us. Jesus Christ took them, and 
 He nailed them to the cross, and He made peace 
 through His blood. But, brother, you will have 
 to meet conditions in order to get the merit of 
 that blood. What are you doing? I was preach- 
 ing up here at New Richmond, Ohio. After I 
 got through at night, I dismissed the congrega- 
 tion, and a young woman came up and stood 
 before me. She said, "Mr Kulp, I have only got 
 one thing more to do." "Well," I said, "what 
 is that?" She said, "I lied about somebody. I 
 have got to go and confess it." My! If folks 
 had to confess all the lies they had told, wouldn't 
 it keep them busy? A Sunday School class one 
 day had a lesson on Ananias and Sapphira, and 
 the teacher said, "Children, why doesn't God 
 strike people nowadays when they lie?" A little 
 girl held up her hand and said, "Because there 
 would not be anybody alive." God has got the 
 record, and it is always fresh in the memory of 
 God, and in the conscience of the sinner. Tt 
 takes the blood of Jesus Christ to purge an evil 
 conscience. How is it with you tonight? Are 
 
1 78 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 you ready to meet God? What is your salvation 
 good for if you are not ready to meet God on 
 a moment's notice? 
 
 Up where I was pastor so long, there are some 
 people who will not come to hear me preach. 
 They say they are made so uncomfortable. I 
 wish they would stop and think. I wish men 
 and women tonight would take a retrospective 
 view of their life, while the Holy Ghost is apply- 
 ing the truth, and while the text comes in 
 thunder tones — "Prepare to meet thy God." Just 
 take a backward look, and then remember, be- 
 loved, remember that the God who came to 
 Adam and said, "Where art thou?" is on your 
 track tonight. Remember that man never hid 
 from God until he sinned, and sin is just as hate- 
 ful in God's sight tonight; but remember, "The 
 blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin." 
 Remember, "When I see the blood, I will pass 
 over you." Oh, there is hope for you, but you 
 will have to meet God's conditions. 
 
 A fellow brought a load of coal to a house, 
 went in and said, "Where do you want this 
 coal ?" The lady said, "You will have to go down 
 and unlock the cellar window." The man went 
 down and unlocked the cellar window, and com- 
 
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 ing back, he saw a fine pair of gloves. Oh, they 
 would be good for a driver ! And he took them 
 and put them in his pocket. He unloaded the coal 
 and went away. Twelve years afterward that 
 man yielded himself to God. He hunted up the 
 man who owned the gloves and said, "Say, I 
 have got something to tell you. For twelve years 
 I have never met you but what I have been 
 ashamed of myself." The man said, "What is 
 the matter ?" He said, "Twelve years ago I took 
 a load of coal to your house. I went down in 
 your cellar to unlock the cellar window. There 
 was a pair of driving gloves there, and I stole 
 them, and I want to pay for them." Twelve 
 years ! Conscience has a long memory — and God 
 has a longer one ; and if our conscience condemns 
 us, God will condemn us, for God is greater than 
 our conscience. Prepare. When? "Now is the 
 accepted time, now is the day of salvation." 
 
 Do you know why a great many people do not 
 come here? Because they are unwilling to meet 
 the conditions. A young man was standing 
 right down about there in my church, and I saw 
 the fellow was under conviction. I went to him 
 and said, "God is talking to you. You ought to 
 be a Christian." He said, "Mr. Kulp, if what 
 
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 you preach is true, I will never be a Christian." 
 I said, "What is the matter?" He said, "I have 
 sinned against some people, and injured them, 
 and they do not know that I am the fellow that 
 did it." God knows. M. W. Knapp, when dy- 
 ing, said, "Wake them up! Wake them up! 
 Wake them up !" and the only thing I know that 
 will wake them up is the truth, as it is in Jesus 
 Christ, preached by godly men and backed by the 
 Holy Ghost. Jesus is able to save unto the ut- 
 termost all them that come unto God through 
 Him, and save them now — when you meet con- 
 ditions — and then you will be saved on the merit 
 of the blood of Jesus Christ, and not because of 
 your good works. 
 
 It is 8:58. How many persons are there here 
 tonight ready to meet God at 9 o'clock, in just two 
 minutes? You know whether you are or not. 
 Let me tell you something. My old mother is 
 ninety-six years of age next November. Once 
 in a while she will have a flash of her old self, 
 and when she does, she will sing some old hymn : 
 
 "Drooping souls, no longer grieve, 
 
 Heaven is sufficient, 
 If in Christ you do believe, 
 
 You shall find Him precious. 
 
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 Jesus now is passing by, 
 
 Calling mourners to Him, 
 He has died for you and me, 
 Now look up and view Him." 
 
 I can hear her old cracked voice. Then again 
 she will say to me, when she has those moments 
 — they do come now and then — "I am all ready 
 whenever the Master sends for me." Thai never 
 leaves her. Somebody referred to something of 
 that kind the other day, and I thought of 
 mother. Oh, thank God, there are some things 
 we know. You can know if you are ready. Bish- 
 op Hughes says never to put a test that is not 
 Scriptural — and I am not. That is the test tlat 
 Jesus Christ puts — -"Be ye also ready, for in such 
 an hour as ye think not, the Son of man-Cometh." 
 Are you ready? 
 
I«2 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 WRATH REVEALED 
 
 "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven 
 against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of 
 men who hold the truth in unrighteousness/' 
 (Rom. 1:18.) 
 
 The Bible is. the Word of God, not only con- 
 tains the Word, but is the Word of God. You 
 believe it? Yes? But how many are living as 
 though it is? How many are living the Word? 
 The criticism of the Chinese as they see men 
 from America, supposing that all are Christians, 
 is, "You are not as good as your Book." God 
 speaks to us in this Word. How much attention 
 are you paying to it? If your children disobeyed 
 you as persistently as you have disobeyed God, 
 what would you do to them ? Your life is a con- 
 tinual disregard of the claims of God. We call 
 Nero a monster because he murdered his mother ; 
 but the sinner is crucifying the Son of God, 
 counting His blood a common thing, and putting 
 Him to an open shame, and repeating it every 
 day, all the time. 
 
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 This Book tells us of heaven — says that heaven 
 is for the righteous. The pure in heart shall see 
 God. I go to prepare a place for you, my dis- 
 ciples, that where I am there ye (my disciples) 
 shall be also. Do you expect to get to heaven? 
 Do you really mean it ? Are you sure that you 
 are not confused, taking a desire for a hope? 
 You know there is a vast difference between a 
 desire and a hope. You no doubt desire a million 
 dollars, but you have no hope of getting it. Let 
 us examine and see upon what your hope is based. 
 The Word says, "Blessed are they that do His 
 commandments; they shall enter in through the 
 gates into the city." The first commandment to 
 all is, Repent. John, the forerunner of Jesus, 
 preached Repent. They took his head off, and I 
 really think that more preachers would have 
 their heads taken off if they would preach re- 
 pentance. Jesus came and the first thing He 
 preached was repentance, and they crucified Him. 
 The Apostles on the Day of Pentecost preached, 
 "Repent and be ye converted/' And only one of 
 them died a natural death. Repentance is not the 
 easy thing that some folks think. It means some- 
 thing to repent. Let me ask you, Have you repent- 
 ed? When did you repent? Do you remember? 
 
1 84 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 God says in this Word to us. He that covered! his 
 sins shall not prosper, but he that forsaketh and 
 confesseth shall find mercy. If we confess our 
 sins He is faithful and just to forgive us our 
 sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 
 When the Prodigal came to himself he said, "I 
 will arise and go unto my father and I will say 
 unto him I have sinned" — in other words, I will 
 go unto him and confess. How much confessing 
 did you do? This is one of the commandments, 
 and we cannot evade it. Men do not like to 
 confess. They are like Dr. Juniper, an old col- 
 ored herb doctor in Baltimore. He was attend- 
 ing a revival service, and being under deep con- 
 viction, he went to the altar and prayed earnestly. 
 The folks at the altar were getting through fine- 
 ly, and the old doctor did not know what to make 
 of it that he did not get through; so he said, 
 "O God, I guess you don't know who I is; I is 
 Dr. Juniper." But the Lord did not pay any 
 more attention to Dr. Juniper than before. And 
 still the others kept praying through. The old 
 doctor really wanted God and was now almost 
 heart broken, and lifting his hands and voice he 
 cried, "O God, I isn't Dr. Juniper; I is nothing 
 but a poor old sinner." And that very moment 
 
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 he got through. Have you confessed your sins 
 to Him? I was in a meeting in an Ohio town 
 and after the meeting a woman came to me and 
 said, "I have done everything but one. I must 
 go to a woman I lied about and tell her." She 
 seemed to think it was her duty to go and tell 
 the woman, and I did not say her nay. The Word 
 of God says, "Let the sinner forsake his ways 
 and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let 
 him return unto the Lord, for he will find mercy." 
 You expect to get to heaven? Have you for- 
 saken all sin and sinful associations ? How much 
 forsaking did you do? Did you leave the card 
 table, the dance, the moving picture show, the 
 theater, the snuff and tobacco? You see it says, 
 "his ways." Was this one of your filthy ways? 
 A clean case of religion gives a man a clean 
 mouth. It will change the color of his spit. Oh, 
 yes, God demands forsaking on our part. Have 
 you forsaken the old crowd? I remember of a 
 case where a young woman went to a revival 
 meeting accompaniel by her escort, and during 
 the meeting she arose, left him and went to the 
 altar. He was so angry he left her and went 
 home. A real gentleman would have waited. 
 The next day she received a letter in which she 
 
186 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 was told, "If you are going with those people, 
 you cannot go with me." And that little woman 
 sat down and wrote him one of the sweetest little 
 letters he ever had received, and it said just one 
 thing, "Goodbye!' She left all things, associa- 
 tions and associates to go with God. This was 
 very different to a case at Sephardsyille, Mich., 
 when a young woman came to the altar. There 
 were a number of young persons at the altar, and 
 they were praying through, too, and she prayed so 
 earnestly that I was ready to shout for the vic- 
 tory that appeared to be in sight. All at once 
 she stopped praying, wiped away her tears and 
 rose up and said, "The Lord shows me that my 
 friend will be saved." I saw it at once and I said 
 to myself, "Tricked by the devil." She was keep- 
 ing company with an ungodly man. The Lord 
 told her to give him up. The enemy came and 
 said to her, "Your friend will be saved; that is 
 all right." And she listened to him; the thing 
 suggested was in harmony with her own inclina- 
 tions, and she was caught with the guile of Sa- 
 tan and missed the experience that God wanted 
 to give her. If any man will be my disciple let 
 him do as did Matthew of old; he arose, left all, 
 folks and everything else, and followed Jesus. 
 
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 It is better to go with God than folks. Abram 
 went with God, but Lot went with Abram. Lot 
 went to Sodom, and lost his wife and some of 
 his children; but Abram walked before God and 
 received the promise of all the land. Be ye holy 
 is a command. This is the will of God even your 
 sanctification. Rejoice evermore, pray without 
 ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this 
 is the will of God concerning you. If any man 
 will do my will he shall know the doctrine. Do 
 you have the experience? Have you got a hope 
 of heaven? Repented and know you did? Con- 
 fessed clear through and know you did? For- 
 saken all sin and all sinful associations, all secret 
 sins and secret places, come out from among 
 them and are separate and clean and you knozv 
 it? Then to you comes with power the Word of 
 God, "Blessed are they that do His command- 
 ments for they shall have a right to the tree of 
 life and enter through the gates into the city. 
 
 There is a heaven and there is a hell. Believe 
 it? Oh, I do not know so surely about that. 
 Where did you get your knowledge of heaven? 
 From the Word of God? Yes and nowhere else. 
 I know there is a heaven on the authority of 
 God's Word, and on the same authority I know 
 
1 88 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 there is a hell. If thy right arm offend thee, cut 
 it off. It is better to enter into life maimed, 
 than having two arms to be cast into hell fire 
 where the worm dieth not and the fire is not 
 quenched. Who said that? Jesus did. In hell 
 the rich man lifted up his eyes being in tor- 
 ment. Who said so? Jesus did. Hell from 
 beneath is moved to meet thee at thy coming. 
 God's Word for it. The wicked shall be turned 
 into hell with all the nations that forget God. 
 Oh, just as surely as you make a map of the 
 universe you write down "heaven," so surely 
 write down hell, for there is one and it will be 
 the eternal home of the sinner who refuses to 
 repent and go with God. There is wrath, and 
 my text tells us of wrath revealed from heaven; 
 the wrath of God against sin and the unrepent- 
 ant sinner. And I would say here, the Word tells 
 us of wrath to come, not as a threat, but as a 
 warning. Because there is wrath. Beware! 
 
 Now to our text. Wrath revealed in the Word. 
 Why did God drive out of Eden our first 
 parents? Because they did what you are doing 
 every day — they sinned against Him. Why did 
 God destroy the Antedeluvian world? Because 
 they sinned against Him. WJiy were the cities 
 
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 of the plains destroyed, and left in ruins by the 
 fires of heaven that God rained down upon them ? 
 Because they sinned. Oh, sin is no joke — no 
 dream. Sin is the thing that God hates, whether 
 in an angel or a man. If the angels who kept not 
 their first estate were cast down to be reserved 
 in chains of darkness unto the judgment of the 
 great day, how shall we escape if we neglect so 
 great salvation. Achan took a wedge of gold 
 and a Babylonish garment and was stoned to 
 death by Divine command. God hates sin. Uz- 
 zah put out his hand to steady the ark, and God 
 killed him, for he violated the law God gave. 
 The Word of God teaches there is wrath against 
 sin, and this Word came from heaven. Holy 
 men of old spake as they were moved by the 
 Holy Ghost. 
 
 The wrath of God against sin is revealed in 
 conscience. Charles the Ninth of France yielded 
 to the entreaties of his queen mother and signed 
 the paper that meant the death of his Huguenot 
 subjects. He afterward sat in the window and 
 saw them shot down — men and defenceless 
 women and little children, until the streets of 
 Paris ran red with the blood of the innocents. 
 In a few years he was on his death bed, his very 
 
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 igo THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 pores ran blood, and before his eyes were the 
 sights he saw on that awful night when he per- 
 mitted his subjects to be murdered, and he cried, 
 "O doctor, give me something to take away this 
 blood from my eyes. ,, But the doctor could not 
 by any medicants reach the conscience of the dy- 
 ing king. The wrath of God revealed in con- 
 science against the sins of the past. A woman 
 was dying in Michigan, and as she laid. on her 
 bed she kept crying, "Take away those little fin- 
 gers, they are pinching my face — they are pinch- 
 ing my face!" What was the matter? The 
 wrath of God in the conscience. She had mur- 
 dered more children before they were born than 
 she ever brought into the world. The brethren 
 of Joseph saw him coming across the fields and 
 said, "Here comes that dreamer; now we will 
 get even with him. ,, And they planned to put 
 him in the pit, and they did; but seeing some 
 Ishmaelites coming along the road, they sell him 
 to them and down into Egypt he is taken while 
 they go home with a coat dipped in blood to de- 
 ceive their old father. They were adepts at de- 
 ception, forgetting "what a tangled webb we 
 weave when first we practice to deceive." The 
 years roll along and the whirligig of time brings 
 
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 God's revenges. There is a famine in the land 
 of Canaan and corn only in Egypt, and 
 these brethren go down there to get some 
 corn and get into trouble, for there is 
 a man there that knows them, though they know 
 him not, and they get together and say one to 
 another, "Verily, we are guilty of our brother's 
 blood." No one has said a single word about 
 their brother. What is the matter ? Simply this, 
 the wrath of God revealed in conscience against 
 the sin of years ago. Belshazzar trembles at a 
 handwriting on the wall — trembles, though he 
 cannot understand a single word that is written. 
 What is the matter? Just this, conscience con- 
 demns him; he knows he is guilty, and that is 
 enough to know. "A guilty conscience makes 
 cowards of us all." 
 
 The wrath of God is revealed in His provi- 
 dences. Nations have proved this in the past. 
 The Jew was to give the land a rest every sev- 
 enth year, but led on by their greed, like the 
 profiteers of America today, they robbed the land 
 as these do the citizen who is at their mercy and 
 cannot help himself. And they did this for four 
 hundred and ninety years, apparently forgetting 
 that God can count, and that He is a jealous God. 
 
192 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 But the time came when He stepped out of the 
 shadows and took notice in a practical manner, 
 for the Babylonians came into the land, and car- 
 ried them off into captivity and there they had to 
 endure captivity until the land rested seventy 
 years, the number of years in which it had been 
 robbed. You cannot cheat God at all. The land 
 belongs to Him. He says the earth is mine. And 
 when you rob even God's earth you may expect 
 Him to visit you in wrath. We might take the 
 time and tell you of nations now decadent, deca- 
 dent because they violated the laws of God and 
 had to pay the price. Rome, Spain, once the 
 mightiest empire on earth, Babylon, Greece, all 
 sinned against Him, and now are paying the 
 price. It is said that no denomination that ever 
 missed its opportunity and went to decay and 
 death, ever was restored, and it is eminently true 
 of nations, when they fall they fall like Lucifer — 
 never to rise again. 
 
 The wrath of God is revealed in nature against 
 sin. A sin against one's own body is a sin against 
 God, for He who wrote the laws on Sinai, who 
 gave us the Decalog, also gave us the laws that 
 govern our bodies, and to violate the laws of the 
 body is to sin against God. He who does it must 
 
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 pay the price. The hospitals for the insane are 
 filled today with young people who have 
 indulged in secret vices until the mind has be- 
 come deranged, reason dethroned and they are 
 shut in as a menace to society and a reproach 
 to humanity. There is no escape. God may 
 forgive, but nature never does. The young man 
 who has the cigarette habit is doomed to shorten 
 his life, wreck every nerve, and curse his prog- 
 eny. A young fellow one day entered the office 
 of a physician and said, "Doctor, I am all in." 
 The doctor said, "I see you are. How many 
 cigarettes do you smoke in a day?" He an- 
 swered, "About forty." The doctor asked him 
 to bare his arm, and taking a leech from a bottle 
 he put it on the fellow's arm, and in exactly two 
 minutes it dropped off dead. "Young man, if 
 you think that was an accident, I will put on 
 another." And he proceeded to put on another 
 and in two minutes the same result. "That is the 
 result of your cigarette smoking," said the doc- 
 tor. And the youngster did not say I will quit 
 at once, but like the slave of habit that he was, 
 he merely said, "I will not smoke so many." 
 There are more women going to the operating 
 tables than there are mien, and one reason is they 
 
194 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 are lying nightly by the side of husbands who are 
 poisoning them gradually by the nicotine in their 
 blood. I once made this statement on a camp- 
 ground where was a man who was a constant 
 user of tobacco. He was talking to his wife 
 earnestly as I passed by and she called me say- 
 ing, "My husband wants to talk with you." I 
 went to them, and to say he was angry is to put 
 it mildly. He at once began: "I do not see how 
 a man by the use of tobacco can poison his wife." 
 I replied, "I have not the authority with me, but 
 let me have your name and address, and when I 
 return home I will get it and send it to you." I 
 went hom^ and one day entered the office of Dr. 
 Leslie, and I said, "I am called into question 
 because of a statement I made in reference to 
 the use of tobacco." He asked me to be seated 
 and went to his bookcase and took down a book 
 called "Woman the Eternal Sufferer/' and turn- 
 ing the leaves over rapidly he called my attention 
 to the chapter and page that revealed the facts. 
 It was written by an eminent Jewish physician 
 on the Pacific Coast I copied it and sent it to 
 my wrathy friend, and the next time I went to 
 that place he canue to the altar and quit his to- 
 
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 bacco, and today is preaching and practicing a 
 clean Gospel. 
 
 "Do you see that home we just passed, doc- 
 tor ?" "Yes, I do, and I know the family." 
 "Well, doctor, I think a man with a home like 
 that and a proportionate income could be a happy 
 man." "Well," said the doctor, "that man is 
 poisoning his wife — killing- her by slow degrees. 
 He is a tobacco fiend." The medical man knows 
 that tobacco is an evil that will shorten the days 
 of the m|an who uses it. Nothing good can be 
 said of the weed, and nothing good comes of us- 
 ing it, and God's curse is upon the use of it and 
 upon the user. During the Spanish American 
 war, half of the young men who applied for en- 
 listment were rejected on account of the "tobacco 
 heart." No sentiment here, just hard common 
 sense, aided by medical science. Be sure your 
 sin will find you out is true of all sin, whether 
 it is sin against the body or sin against the law 
 as revealed to us in the Word. 
 
 The wrath of God as seen in the past is terri- 
 ble. The blasphemers who were slain the night 
 the angel of the Lord passed through the Assyri- 
 an ranks knew that he but did the Divine will 
 on them. They knew it when it was too late. 
 
196 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 The men who sneered at the Missionaries on the 
 island of Martinique knew when too late that 
 God was capable of wrath. Only a few days 
 1 before they had told these men of God they were 
 not wanted on the island, and must get off. They 
 took a pig and nailed it to a cross and carried 
 it through the streets of the city, and said to 
 the MHssionaries, "Here is your Christ" But 
 very soon God rose in the might of His power, 
 shook the island as with an earthquake; Mount 
 Peelee blew its head off and there came out mud 
 and steam, hot water and stones, burning lava 
 and ashes, and forty thousand people were hur- 
 ried into eternity. They did not want God, and 
 said so, and God showed them that He was 
 through with them until Judgment Day. Out 
 in San Francisco the drunken mobs with their 
 political processions could parade the streets 
 with red fire and blare of bands, cheering and 
 hooting, and nothing be said about it; but when 
 the Salvation Army, and the little bands of Holi- 
 ness people appeared on the streets, they were 
 told they were disturbing the peace of the city, 
 and must stop, and when they kept right on and 
 sang and prayed and testified, they were told 
 they must stop or go to jail — and they stopped. 
 
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 But God knew, and sometimes He uses measures 
 that are quite convincing. The city had retired 
 to rest for the night, but He never slumbers, and 
 He just put out His little finger and shook the 
 Pacific Coast, and San Francisco went down in 
 ruins. Then some of them at least wanted God, 
 and they prayed and wept and cried aloud on 
 the streets to God to have mercy. Wrath revealed 
 in nature against Sin and Sinners. 
 
 There is only one way to avoid wrath, and that 
 is the way that God has appointed. Repent. 
 When God was aroused and sent a prophet to 
 Nineveh to cry, "Forty days and Nineveh shall 
 be destroyed !" the king and the nobles and the 
 people all put on sackcloth and ashes, and God 
 saw their repentance was real, and He heard 
 their cry and spared them. Repent and be ye 
 converted, that your sins rmay be blotted out. 
 Though they be red like crimson, yet shall they 
 be whiter than snow. Whoever shall call upon 
 the name of the Lord shall be saved. I believe 
 with Dean Alford, "All man's salvation is of 
 God, and all of his damnation is of himself." 
 God in Christ has done all that He could do to 
 prevent the consequences of sin. Each man 
 makes his own hell and fixes his own eternal 
 
198 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 destiny. Man as a free moral agent can do 
 as he pleases. To whom ye yield yourselves 
 servants to obey, his servants ye are. It is not 
 in the power of Omnipotence to save a man 
 against his own will. Man can resist all the in- 
 fluences of Divine Love, all the strivings of the 
 Holy Spirit. Peter once said, "As did your 
 fathers so do ye; ye do always resist the Holy 
 Ghost." But there comes an end; an end to pro- 
 bation, and Sin loved and persisted in will send 
 a soul to where it is forever separated from God. 
 Then evil character is fixed beyond the power of 
 change, and wrath forever is wrath against sin. 
 May God keep all who hear these awful truths 
 from the wrath to come. 
 
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 XI 
 LYING TO GOD 
 
 "I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my con- 
 science also bearing me witness in the Holy 
 Ghost." (Romans 9:1.) 
 
 A He is an intentional violation of the truth, 
 a false statemient made knowingly and deliber- 
 ately for the purposes of deception. It is any- 
 thing which misleads, deceives or disappoints, 
 anything false, hollow and deceptive. It is to 
 profess to have something which we know we 
 do not possess. Men lie to men, but in the last 
 analysis all lying is unto God. Peter said to An- 
 anias, "Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie 
 to the Holy Ghost . . . thou hast not lied 
 unto men, but unto God." In fact all sin is sin 
 against God. There are powerless lives all 
 around us ; men and women are loud in their pro- 
 fession and yet whose lives in the home, in the 
 community, in the church, are absolutely devoid 
 of any spiritual power, and "there is a reason." 
 We talk glibly about consecration, forgetting 
 
200 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 that consecration means abandonment unto the 
 Holy Ghost of the whole life of the individual, 
 and all that life means unto the one will of God 
 for all time and all eternity. Martin Wells 
 Knapp said, "Consecration means taking your 
 hands off of that which belongs unto God." And 
 when we consider that all we are and all we 
 have and all our present and all the future is 
 ours only because given us of God, we begin to 
 see what it mieans to be abandoned unto Him. 
 It means a glad acceptance of all the will of God 
 for ourselves unto the farthest possibility. And 
 now please remember that consecration and 
 power go together. The very moment a soul 
 abandons itself unto God, that very moment the 
 Holy Ghost comes in as the Sanctifier. It is a 
 principle in philosophy that nature abhors a 
 vacuum, and so does grace. God is glad to give 
 the Holy Ghost unto all them! that obey Him. 
 He says so in His Word, and all the theories men 
 can invent to cover their lack of experience, can- 
 not displace the truth. This leads to the inquiry, 
 "Why, then, are there so many powerless lives 
 all around us?" Listen to God speaking in the 
 Word, "Ye shall receive power, the Holy Ghost 
 coming upon you." Power to be a living wit- 
 
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 ness for God. Not to shout, though that is good 
 when He puts the shout in us; not to jump, 
 though that is all right when we delight our- 
 selves in the Lord, for delighting means in the 
 original, "jumping up and down in the Lord"; 
 but living for God, in harmony with Him, walk- 
 ing with Him, keeping step with Him, in cheer- 
 ful obedience to all His will, all the time and 
 everywhere. Why, then, are there so many 
 powerless lives? Men are lying to God! Charles 
 G. Finney was the leading evangelist of the nine- 
 teenth century, wonderfully owned of God. He 
 was engaged in a meeting at a certain place and 
 church, and a Presbyterian Elder came across 
 the country to the meeting to see him and get 
 advice. This man had been seeking the baptism 
 of the Holy Ghost, but thus far had failed to 
 receive Him. Mr. Finney was being enter- 
 tained in the home of an elder who had received 
 the Spirit, and the visiting elder was also a guest 
 in the same home. As they sat down at the 
 table for dinner the visiting elder was so full of 
 the desire, that he could not wait, but immedi- 
 ately asked the elder, his host, "How did you 
 receive the Holy Ghost ?" And back came the 
 answer, "I stopped lying to God." At once the 
 
202 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 man rose from the table, went to his room and 
 came back in five minutes, his face all aglow, 
 and said, "I told God I had told Him my last lie, 
 on my knees or off." Oh, that all churches, all 
 men, all women, all who profess the religion of 
 the Lord Jesus Christ would quit lying to God 
 All churches ? Yes. Here is a church to be dedi- 
 cated to God. Listen to the trustees as they 
 stand there before the mjinister, "We present 
 unto you this church, to be dedicated to the serv- 
 ice and worship of Almighty God." Hear the 
 minister: "We dedicate this church to His serv- 
 ice for the reading of the Scriptures, the preach- 
 ing of the Word of God, the administration of 
 the sacraments, and for all other exercises of 
 religious worship." Go along the street on which 
 that church stands in a few weeks and read the 
 Bulletin Board, "A chicken-pie social, Saturday 
 night, twenty-five cents. All are welcome." That 
 church is a lie before God and the world. It 
 was dedicated to the worship of Almighty God, 
 and here it is used for revelings and banquetings, 
 for guzzling. Revival services held for ten days 
 — a kind of a periodical spasm, something relig- 
 ious must be done to wipe away the reproach, to 
 miake the world overlook the lie. An evangelist 
 
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 must be sent for; there is not enough spiritual 
 life and power in the church to keep a weekly 
 prayer meeting on fire for one night; a revival 
 must be imported, and when the imported revi- 
 val is over the imported evangelist will quite 
 likely take away with him the imported revival. 
 I have a firm convicton that any church that can- 
 not have a revival without importing an evan- 
 gelist, the whole outfit ought to go to the altar — 
 minister and congregation. In my pastorates I 
 used to invite an evangelist to come and help me, 
 because I wanted my people to hear other men, 
 and I wanted to hear them myself, and God 
 blessed in the whole business, and the pastor and 
 people were all ready to back the evangelist up 
 and did not first have to go to the altar to get 
 ready for the revival. Praise the Lord! 
 
 Men are lying to God. Dr. Kieen once said: 
 "Seventy-five per cent of the professing Chris- 
 tians that I am called upon to pray with I have 
 to pray that they be made ready." He was 
 speaking of those with whom he prayed on their 
 death beds. Listen to this man pray. He is sick, 
 very sick, or else he would not have prayed : "O 
 Lord, spare me, raise me up from this bed of 
 sickness and I will serve You all the days of my 
 
204 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 life." God spares that man's life, raises him 
 up, and he goes right on living the same old life. 
 What is that man's life? It is a living lie! A 
 lie unto God. An old sea captain was sitting in 
 a parlor, telling the friends how he had been 
 shipwrecked, was floating on the sea for twenty- 
 four hours, holding on to a floating mast, hoping 
 some vessel might come that way and rescue him. 
 His listeners were spellbound, but one of them 
 had a question he wanted to ask, and so he said, 
 "Captain, may I ask you a question?" "Certain- 
 ly, sir." "Did you not promise the Lord if He 
 would spare you that you would serve Him?" 
 And quick as a flash came the answer, "None of 
 your business, sir!" But the next day the Cap- 
 tain came around and said, "I beg your pardon, 
 sir; I was very rude yesterday. You touched a 
 sore spot. I did promise God when I was float- 
 ing out there on the ocean, that I would serve 
 Him — and / have not done it" That captain's 
 life was a lie — a living lie. Do you remember 
 the promise you made the time you were sick? 
 Have you kept the promise? Broken vows and 
 promises made to God stand in the way of your 
 peace and salvation. There are lies to be 
 straightened out, and the time will come when 
 
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 you will remember them and tell God you lied, 
 and ask Him to forgive you. I knew a man who 
 was standing in his parlor, and in front of him 
 was a little white casket, and in it a precious little 
 one God had taken to Himself. By the side of 
 the doctor stood an old friend, a man of God, 
 and the doctor said, "Brother F , I remem- 
 ber as I stand by this casket the vows I made 
 unto God and did not keep." Oh, he thought of 
 them now, and the lies oppressed his very soul. 
 Well do so many sing, "Broken vows and disap- 
 pointments thickly strewn along the way." Here 
 is a meeting in progress and souls are at the 
 altar; some are praying very earnestly. Hear 
 this man pray, "O Lord, I give myself unto Thee, 
 soul and body, for time and eternity. I say yes 
 to all thy will. I abandon myself to Thee for- 
 ever, in the name of Him who died for me, who 
 shed His blood to wash away my sin." I am 
 expecting something to happen. I am ready to 
 shout over that fellow. But nothing happens — 
 no fire falls. What is the matter? He does not 
 mean it. It is only lip deep. He did not pray 
 from his heart and mean it. In other words, he 
 is lying to God. There must be obedience before 
 there can be faith. The Holy Ghost comes where 
 
2o6 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 He is really wanted, and comes suddenly, and 
 where there is His presence, there is power and 
 fire. 
 
 Hear this man pray, "Lord, I am Thine, 
 Thine forever, to be Thine alone." No fire, and 
 he goes out and flirts with the world, runs with 
 the world's people, looks like the world. There 
 is an old adage that comes to me just now, and it 
 is this: "You cannot hunt with the hounds and 
 run with the hare." I wish all professing folks 
 would remember that. It would keep them out 
 of lots of bad company. Here is a man and 
 woman come to me to be married. I tell them 
 to stand, the gentleman on the right of the lady, 
 and I ask him, "Wilt thou have this woman to 
 be thy wedded wife? Wilt thou love, 
 honor, cherish, and forsaking all others keep thee 
 only unto her so long as you both do live?" And 
 he says, "I will" I then ask the woman, "Wilt 
 thou have this man to be thy wedded husband 
 so long as you both do live? Wilt thou love, 
 honor, cherish, and forsaking all others, keep 
 thee only unto him so long as you do both live ?" 
 And she answers, "I will." And then I pro- 
 nounce them husband and wife in the name of 
 God the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. 
 
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 Whom God hath joined together let no man put 
 asunder. Now is it so that that man has no 
 right to look at another woman, nor to flirt with 
 another woman? That woman has no right to 
 make eyes at another man, no right to flirt with 
 another mian ? You say yes ; and so God in His 
 Word says, "Come out from among them and be 
 ye separate." A real consecrated life is a sep- 
 arated life. Old World, goodbye — and goodbye 
 forever. 
 
 No Christian can flirt with the world, wear 
 the world's garb, and keep right with God. I 
 once heard Caughey, the celebrated Irish evan- 
 gelist, say, "You cannot let the devil be your 
 tailor, nor your milliner, nor your dressmaker. ,, 
 Mjy father and mother were converted in old 
 Green Street Methodist Church, in Trenton, N. 
 J., under the labors of Rev. Charles Pitman, and 
 I have heard them say that at night, after the 
 altar services were closed, one could go all along 
 the altar and pick up the feathers and flowers 
 and jewelry. I was in a meeting in the Holiness 
 Church at Huntington, W. Va. A woman came 
 to the altar with a hat on her head that had on it a 
 big ostrich plume. She came again and again ; no 
 one said a word about such things, but one after- 
 
208 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 noon she put her hand up and pulled off the big 
 feather. When the meeting closed, her daughter 
 picked the feather up and said, "Mamma, here 
 is your feather." The mother said, "I never 
 want to see the thing again. " Oh, the Holy 
 Ghost is always faithful, and He works along 
 the same old lines. 
 
 Here is a church wedding. They have import- 
 ed an organist of ability, the church is splendidly 
 decorated, the bridesmaids are arrayed in fine 
 linen and purple, the little relative is there car- 
 rying a lily in which is a ring. The bridal par- 
 ty walk up the aisle to the peals of the wedding 
 march; the whole thing passes off beautifully, 
 without a hitch. The couple go home, when the 
 following conversation takes place: "John, did 
 you hear how finely the organist played the wed- 
 ding march?" And John says, "No." "Well, 
 John, you noticed how beautifully the brides- 
 maids were dressed, did you not?" And he said, 
 "No." "But, John, you must certainly have seen 
 how sweetly the little girl looked as she walked 
 up the aisle carrying the ring?" And again John 
 said, "No." "Well, John, please tell me, what 
 did you see, anyhow?" He said, "I did not see 
 anybody but you." That is the ideal for the 
 
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 Christian who is abandoned unto the Holy 
 Ghost, who has given himself to Jesus. The con- 
 stant song of his heart is, 
 
 Since my eyes were fixed on Jesus, 
 
 I've lost sight of all beside, 
 
 So enchained my spirit's vision, 
 
 Gazing at the Crucified. 
 Jesus and only Jesus can fill the vision of the 
 sanctified soul. God help us all to get the vision. 
 I was in a meeting in Indianapolis; there came 
 a man to the altar, a local preacher; alongside 
 of him was a preacher, also seeking, dressed like 
 a fashion plate. He was seeking the blessing, 
 but before he got very far he found out he need- 
 ed to get saved, and God did save him, and Sister 
 Sadie Camly of that city, had the privilege after- 
 ward of seeing him get the blessing as she 
 prayed for him. But it is the other fellow I want 
 you to see. How he did wriggle and squirm, and 
 squirm and wriggle. He would lie on the altar, 
 first in one position and then in another ; and he 
 would groan, and groan again and again, and 
 I finally said to one of the brethren, "What is 
 the matter with that fellow, anyhow ?" And they 
 said, "He has got a farm. ,, Now a farm is a 
 good thing to have, especially in these days of 
 
210 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 high cost of living; but the trouble was putting 
 that farm on the altar. The most tender place 
 about some men is their pocket. To pray, "O 
 Lord, Thou canst have all that I have," and not 
 to put the farm on, is lying to God. I think it 
 is the height of meanness to look God in the 
 face and say, "One tenth Thine and nine tenths 
 miine. ,, I have been in meetings where there was 
 a silence as soon as I began to talk about tithing; 
 but some people begin to get hilarious because 
 they tithed, gave God one tenth, gave Him what 
 was His already; and what if one withheld — you 
 Were a robber and a thief. I hold that no one 
 gives God a single cent who does not give more 
 than a tenth. God says, the tithe is Mine. This 
 is the Word and under the Dispensation of the 
 Holy Ghost all we have is the Lord's, and mak- 
 ing a profession of having the Holy Ghost and 
 yet withholding from God is lying to God. 
 
 Here is a man who is dead to the world, and 
 those are the kind of people I am looking for. 
 But how can one be dead to the world and yet 
 get over on to the world's territory, enjoy the 
 world's people, follow the world's fashions. Un- 
 godly men and womien are today setting the 
 styles for the world, and professing Christians 
 
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 are changing their garbs at the behest of the 
 devil's fashion makers. Dead to self. That is 
 the last thing to die. The first temptation was 
 an appeal to self. "Thou shalt be as God." And 
 the thing took, and man fell. Few people today 
 are saying, "Blot me out that Israel may live," 
 like that man back there on the mount with God. 
 No wonder God took him up to talk face to face 
 with Him. Let me alone, said the Almighty 
 One, and I will blot Israel out and make of thee 
 a great and mighty nation. That promise would 
 have won a Caesar, or a Napoleon, or an Alex- 
 ander at once; but this man said, "Blot me out 
 and let Israel live." He was dead to self. No 
 wonder the Holy Ghost records he "was the 
 meekest man on the face of the earth." But here 
 is the truth, the eternal fact — Self Must Die — or 
 we will die, and that eternally. The Apostle said, 
 "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. 
 
 How did you pray last Watch night, do you 
 remember ? Was it anything like this : "O Lord, 
 by Thy grace this shall be the best year of my 
 life." "I will walk in all the light that God gives 
 me." Have you done it? Does the Holy Ghost 
 and your own conscience join with you in saying 
 yes? Have you fellowship with Him? Are you 
 
212 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 cleansed from all sin ? You are if you are walk- 
 ing in the light. By their fruits you shall know 
 them. This applies to us as well as to others. 
 If their is no fellowship, there is no cleansing, 
 for the two go together ; where there is one there 
 is the other. Have you prayed in the closet, 
 in the secret place, at the family altar? I have 
 seen men who were in the church in good stand- 
 ing, but they had no family altar in their homes. 
 Have you studied the Word of God? Jesus said 
 search the Scriptures. The Holy Ghost said 
 give attendance to reading. Have you? Are 
 you in partnership with God? Do you put God 
 first? The first sentence in the Bible is, "In the 
 beginning God." The first table in the Deca- 
 logue puts God first: "Thou shalt have no 
 other gods before me." The first sentence in 
 the Lord's Prayer (commonly so called) is, "Our 
 Father who art in heaven." The whole Book 
 teaches God wants you in partnership with Him- 
 self. Write it out so big the whole world can 
 see it, and then display it so three worlds will 
 know it — God Almighty, The Triune God and 
 John Smith. 
 
 Obedience to God is the keynote to victory. 
 Emotion is good, but without obedience it is good 
 
WORDS THAT BURN 213 
 
 for nothing. Obedience without emotion, with- 
 out one single bit of feeling, is pleasing to God. 
 To obev is better than sacrifice, and to hearken 
 than the fat of ramis. The Holy Ghost is given 
 unto them who obey Him. 
 
 In closing, let me call your attention to a vic- 
 tor who would, under any circumstance, keep 
 his vows made to God. You will find him men- 
 tioned in the roll call of heroes of whom the 
 world was not worthy, but God found them of 
 sufficient worth to put them in the hall of eternal 
 fame, where angels and men could read their 
 names and deeds, and feel good while doing so. 
 I see him kicked out by his own flesh and blood 
 because they said, "Jepthah, you are the son of a 
 strange woman, and we do not want you 
 around. ,, And out he went. He gathers around 
 him a band of valiant fellows, who perhaps like 
 himself, had been kicked out, and he wins his 
 way, acquires a name for himself and his band. 
 After a while the Ammonites oppress the chil- 
 dren of Israel, and they are unable to deliver 
 themselves, and would you believe it, they turn 
 to the man they had kicked out, and they fairly 
 beg him to come and deliver them, but he re- 
 minds them that they kicked him out, hated him 
 
214 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 and expelled himi from his father's house; but 
 still they begged, until at last he said, "If I come 
 and the Lord delivers the children of Ammon 
 into my hand, shall I be the head of Israel ?" And 
 they said, "Yes, you shall be the head." Then 
 this man prayed and said, "O God, if thou wilt 
 deliver the children of Ammon into my hands, 
 if thou wilt give the victory to Israel, I will give 
 thee the first thing that cometh forth of mine 
 house." And he meant it. He spoke from his' 
 heart, and God knew it and gave him the victory. 
 He went out and led the hosts of Israel to bat- 
 tle and he smote Ammon with a very great 
 slaughter. He returns to his home, the folks 
 come out to meet him with timbrels and dances, 
 they sing praises unto the God of Israel, they 
 mention the name of Jepthah, but look, look to- 
 ward his home, who is that coming forth from 
 his doors? It is his own daughter. Will he be 
 true? Will he keep his vows. This man who 
 lived more than a thousand years before Cal- 
 vary? Hear him, "Alas my daughter, thou hast 
 brought me very low and thou art one of them 
 that trouble me, for / have opened my mouth 
 unto the Lord, and I cannot go back" Have 
 you opened your mouth to the Lord and gone 
 
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 back? I say the truth in Christ and lie not, the 
 Holy Ghost and my own conscience being my 
 witnesses; God requires truth in the inward 
 parts and in the inward parts He will make us 
 to know wisdom. Search me, O God and see if 
 there be any wicked way in me. 
 
216 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 XII 
 THE SECOND DEATH 
 
 "This is the Second Death" (Rev. 20:14). 
 
 Death has been denned as the separation of 
 soul and body. But is not death more than that ? 
 If that were all, why should men fear death? 
 Nature is kind to the dying, and has made pro- 
 vision for an easy and almost painless exit from 
 this life. The blood stagnates, a lethargy creeps 
 over the frame, consciousness departs, and all is 
 over. I know there have been those who have 
 cried in agony, and dreaded death, but it is what 
 comes after death the sinner fears. Death im- 
 plies the separation frorm loved ones. A young- 
 man walked into the office of a railroad magnate 
 and said to him, "I want a train for New York. 
 I want the right of way for a hundred miles 
 ahead. I want switches nailed down for that 
 distance, for I must reach New York in the fast- 
 est possible time." The manager said, "Young 
 man, it will cost you something to get that." "I 
 did not ask you what it would cost; I told you 
 
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 What I wanted." "All right, you shall have it." 
 He got it; every switch was nailed down for 
 hundreds of miles ahead of the train; the right 
 of way was given; he arrived in New York in 
 the fastest time ever given to a man; he took 
 the auto in waiting, was whisked to a palatial 
 home in a few minutes, but there was crepe on 
 the door. Death had beat him; a loved one 
 whose one desire was to see the young man had 
 been hurried away by the hand of death. Death 
 and time and tide wait for no man. 
 
 Tom Johnson was Mayor of Cleveland. He 
 was eminently a self-made man, had made and 
 lost several fortunes. He made the fight for 
 three-cent car fares for the people of the city, 
 but one day he called in wife and children, and 
 said, "I have called you to say the last farewell. 
 I am going to the land of shadows; the doctor 
 tells me there is no hope, and wife, children, 
 goodbye." They came from the room with weep- 
 ing eyes and breaking hearts. Death, then, is 
 more than the separation of soul and body. It 
 is separation from loved ones. To the Christian 
 it is only a separation for a little while, and then 
 an eternal reunion. When Rev. George W. 
 Bacheldor was dying, he called in his wife, who 
 
218 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 was the daughter of that stalwart man of God, 
 Dr. D. W. Bartine. As she sat by his side he 
 put his arms around her neck and bade her 
 "goodbye for a little while, ,, saying, "I love you 
 next to Jesus." The second death is an eternal 
 separation from all that is good and true, and 
 pure and holy and happy forever. Death is a 
 separation from home. I was called to preach 
 the funeral sermon of a man in Michigan who 
 had been a very successful farmer. He was a 
 hard worker; he had cleared every acre of that 
 farm on which he lived ; planted every tree, made 
 every foot of lawn, sowed every field, and now 
 he Was to die. As he laid there he said to some 
 of the neighbors who were in the room, "Boys, 
 lift me up; take me to the window; let me look 
 out on the old farm once more." They carried 
 him to the window. He looked long and loving- 
 ly at the barns which he had built, at the orchard 
 he had planted, at the lawn he had made, and 
 then he said, "That will do, carry me back," and 
 lying down again he died. Death, then, is more 
 than separation from the body — it is a separation 
 from home. Miazarin, the Premier of France, 
 was nearing the end. He called his servants, 
 asked them to take him out to the art gallery 
 
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 of his mansion, and as supported by their arms, 
 he passed along the long gallery, looking at the 
 works of artists and sculptors, admiring them 
 with a critical eye, he was heard to say, "Must 
 I leave you? Can I not take you with me?" 
 Yes, he and all the rest of us must leave behind 
 all the associations that we have loved. A lady 
 was riding along a country road with her driver 
 when they came to an old church. The shutters 
 hung on one hinge, the cobwebs were over doors 
 and windows, the weeds had grown up in the 
 path, and yet she said to her driver, "I want to 
 go in that old church for a little while." And 
 getting out she went in and stayed for more than 
 half an hour. The driver grew impatient. 
 "What does that woman want in that old church, 
 with all its dust and decay?" and he made up 
 his mlind he would ask her when she came out. 
 After she was reseated in the carriage, he ven- 
 turned to ask, "Madame, will you please tell me 
 what it was that kept you so long in that dusty 
 old church ? w "Certainly I will. I am visiting 
 back in this neighborhood where I was reared, 
 after an absence of forty years. I never ex- 
 pect to return. I was converted more than 
 forty years ago in that old church, and I wanted 
 
220 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 to go in and get down at the altar where I first 
 met Jesus. I forgot you — forgot the passage of 
 time while I was there. I know you will forgive 
 me for keeping you waiting." That old altar 
 was dear to her heart and she knew she was 
 leaving it for the last time. 
 
 There is a spot to me more dear 
 Than native vale or mountain, 
 
 A spot for which affection's tear 
 Flows grateful from its fountain. 
 
 'Tis not where kindred souls are found, 
 Though that is almost heaven; 
 
 But where I first my Savior found, 
 And knew my sins forgiven. 
 Death is more than separation of soul from the 
 body; it is separation from loved associations. 
 
 But my text refers to the Second Death. Eter- 
 nal Death. Death is a monster, an enemy; it is 
 pitiless, cruel; it takes the young, the ambitious, 
 the hopeful. It separates the husband and wife, 
 the mother from the child. I have no liking for 
 that hymln that once was in the Methodist 
 Hymnal, "Ah, lovely appearance of death, thy 
 sight upon earth is so fair." God in His Word 
 says Death is an enemy; but this text means 
 eternal death, unending, never ceasing, dying 
 always and yet never dead. There are three 
 
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 kinds of Death. First, there is physical death, 
 the separation of the soul from the body; then 
 there is spiritual death, the separation of the soul 
 from God ; and there is eternal death, the separa- 
 tion of the reunited soul and body from God for- 
 ever. Have you never been in the room where 
 they were a long time dying? "How is he to- 
 day ?" "Oh, he is nearing the end. The doctor 
 says he will pass out before sundown." Sun- 
 down comies and friends ask, "How is he today?" 
 And again comes the answer, "He is almost 
 gone — cannot live through the night." But the 
 night has gone and again the friends come and 
 ask, "How is he today?" And again the; answer, 
 "He is nearly gone — cannot last till noon." But 
 at last someone inquires and is told, "He is 
 dead." But after ten millions of years have passed 
 away, there will never come a time when it can 
 be said of an immiortal soul, "It is dead." Death 
 flees from them; they want to die in hell and 
 cannot; always dying and yet never dead. I do 
 like that word eternal — when it is yoked up with 
 some words that belong to the vocabulary of the 
 skies, or the Christian. Eternal peace. Eternal 
 joy. Eternal Heaven! But, oh, the horrors 
 when it is yoked up with Eternal Death! Oh, 
 
222 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 think what it means for that husband who is un- 
 saved, who is going straight to a devil's hell, 
 while his sanctified wife is going straight to a 
 glorious heaven ! It means, "Wife, goodbye 
 forever/' Eternal Separation! 
 
 Let us now consider what the Second Death 
 really means. It is separation from God forever. 
 From God, the Source of life and power and 
 love. The soul was made to enjoy God forever; 
 made to walk and talk with Him ; made for com- 
 munion with Him. I have thought that God 
 really enjoyed walking and talking with that 
 first man with whom He would mieet and talk 
 in the cool of the garden in the morning. I have 
 thought God missed the morning walks with 
 that good, pure man when he fell. I think that 
 God thought so much of Enoch, that other man 
 who walked with Hint, that He took him up to 
 Himself to make the pleasure an eternal one. 
 But think of it! Man made to walk and talk 
 with God, separated from Him forever! One of 
 the blessings of the pure in heart is that they 
 shall see God; but the sinner in hell shall never 
 see God, never talk with God, never have a 
 prayer answered — it is an eternal separation 
 from Him. 
 
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 It is separation from heaven, angels, friends, 
 saints, forever. Here we have churches, the 
 bells peal forth an invitation every week to all 
 to come to the house of God — but there are no 
 church bells calling in hell. I rode on a train 
 one time with a man who knew me well, and he 
 said, "I would not live in a town where there were 
 no churches and no schools. I want them for my 
 children. I am not a church member, but I re- 
 spect the churches for the good work they are 
 doing." Separation from Bibles and Sabbath 
 Schools, and good people forever. Never to hear 
 another prayer in the Spirit, or Spirit inspired, 
 for the Holy Ghost never inspires anyone to pray 
 when it is useless, and it is useless to pray in hell ; 
 not even a drop of water in hell, though men cry 
 for water, water, water, to cool their parched 
 tongues. 
 
 The Second Death is companionship with dev- 
 ils and demons and Satan forever. With the 
 lost in hell forever. Think of it ! Made for God 
 and heaven, made to glorify God and enjoy Him 
 forever, and yet shut up in hell to be the com- 
 panion of the damned of all ages. All the whore- 
 mongers, all the adulterers, all the liars, all the 
 drunkards, all the saloonkeepers, all the vile and 
 
224 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 vicious, all that loveth and maketh a lie, all the 
 unrepentant of all ages, with Neros, the Borgias, 
 the tyrants, the persecutors, the crucifiers of the 
 Son of God, the Judases who betrayed Him, and 
 this forever! After earth, with its Gospel priv- 
 ileges, with its blessed sunlight, with its gracious 
 providences, with its preached Gospel, the woo- 
 ings of the Holy Spirit, then to be lost in hell 
 forever! This is the Second Death. 
 
 It is bitter memories forever. Just to thirk. 
 Once appointed unto salvation. Once an heir to 
 a robe and a crown. For I fully believe that 
 every child that comes into this world is a saved 
 child. As in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all 
 be made alive. There are no heathen babies. 
 They are all Christian, born under the atone- 
 ment of Jesus Christ, and no matter where the 
 child dies — in Africa's jungles or the arid plains 
 of India — it goes straight to the presence of God 
 as fast as the white-winged angels can carry it. 
 No matter what the color of its skin, it is a saved 
 child. But to be lost, to reject the light that 
 comes through the atonement of Jesus' blood, to 
 have to think and think forever, "I might have 
 been saved!" God gave His Son to die for me, 
 gave me the Word, unto me was the Word of 
 
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 salvation sent; His providences were around me, 
 and now they are all gone forever, and I am 
 damned." 
 
 It is tormenting remorse forever; it is agon- 
 izing despair, forever ; it is weeping and wailing 
 and gnashing of teeth, forever; it is outer dark- 
 ness forever. Darkness so far away from the 
 throne of God that the light never reaches it. 
 I saw a picture representing Napoleon at St. 
 Helena. He stands down by the seashore; his 
 arms are folded; he is looking away across the 
 waters towards La Belle France. I imagine he 
 is thinking, "Over yonder I was the loved Em- 
 peror of a devoted people; I was on a throne sup- 
 ported by the love of France. An army moved at 
 the command of my Generals. But I, led on by 
 my cursed ambition, was not satisfied. I aimed 
 at a dominion that meant Europe at my feet. I 
 trampled on the bones and blood of my loyal 
 friends to reach the goal — and here I am, to die 
 with my boots on, to live only as a memory in 
 the days to come." So with the lost in hell. To 
 look out as far as mind can carry them to think, 
 "Once I lived on yonder earth, where I was a 
 free moral agent. I might have been a king and 
 priest unto God. I might have been a co-worker 
 with the Son of God, with high heaven; but I 
 
226 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 loved sin, I loved the pleasures of the world, I 
 loved to gratify the flesh. I said No to God, and 
 here I am banished forever from God and heav- 
 en, and hope. Death would be a relief, but death 
 never comes here; a coffin would be a welcome 
 sight, but coffins are useless in hell. I am lost 
 forever. 
 
 It is to be wicked, and constantly growing 
 more wicked forever. Want Scripture for that? 
 You shall have it. "Evil men and seducers wax 
 worse and worse." It is to be without any hope 
 or power of repentance forever. Here is a man 
 who sold his birthright and he found no place 
 of repentance forever, though he sought it care- 
 fully and with tears. Every sinner has sold his 
 birthright. He was appointed to be saved and 
 would not. Jesus said, "Ye will not come unto 
 me that ye might have life/' "Let the wicked 
 forsake his way and the unrighteous man his 
 thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, for 
 He will have miercy, and unto our God, for He 
 will abundantly pardon." That LET implies he 
 may. He can, IF he will. Every sinner is the 
 author of his damnation. He reaps what he 
 sows. He may cry, as I have heard them cry, 
 "O God, give me one more chance ! Give me one 
 
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 more altar call. Let me hear one more sermon !" 
 But it is too late when the line is crossed. 
 
 The Second Death is the aggravation of all 
 the woes, of all the sorrows, all the pains, all 
 the horrors, all the diseases, all the curse that 
 sin ever produced in the world, shut up in one 
 place, with one class of people forever — the peo- 
 ple who rejected Jesus Christ while on earth and 
 deliberately chose sin, for sin when it is finished 
 bringeth forth Death, and my text declares it is 
 eternal death. I went one time to an insane 
 asylum in the state of Michigan. I went with a 
 man, then a preacher, who once had been a clerk 
 in the institution. We went on the first floor, 
 where the folks were so natural you would not 
 know they were insane. Then we went on the 
 second floor, where they were surely insane, and 
 you soon found it out, but they were perfectly 
 harmless. My friend then asked the doctor, who 
 was our escort, to take us on the third 
 floor where the incurables were, so we 
 went up on the third floor. A door was 
 unlocked, and we were locked into the "Dis- 
 turbed Ward" with the doctor and the incurably 
 insane. They came around us, hair long and 
 unkempt, finger nails unkept, cheek bones high, 
 eyes sunken in. They reached out their hands, 
 
228 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 touched us as though we were visitants from 
 some (to therm) unknown world. I was glad to 
 get out of there, and I have never wanted to go 
 back since. But hell is the disturbed ward of 
 the universe, for to my mind the most insane 
 thing a man can do is to reject the only salvation 
 that can deliver from sin. When a soul rejects 
 Jesus, he is an incurable, for there is no other 
 name under heaven whereby we can be saved save 
 the name of Jesus. There is no rest nor peace in 
 hell. In the disturbed ward the constant cry is, "I 
 want to go home. I want to go home. ,, So in 
 hell the one cry is for Home, for hell has nothing 
 homelike about it. Love reigns and rules in a 
 home; that is what will make heaven so homey. 
 But hate reigns in hell. They hate one another, 
 hate God, hate Jesus, hate the Holy Spirit, hate 
 the preachers who withheld the whole truth, hate 
 the professing Christians who failed to warn them 
 of the hell that awaited them as the consequence 
 of sin, for as sure as God lives hell is the sequence 
 of a life of sin! 
 
 The Second Death is to be lost in hell forever. 
 So lost there is no hope. Lost to God, lost to 
 hope, lost to love, lost to peace, lost to friend- 
 ships, and lost forever! No Savior, no Holy 
 Spirit , no promises, no mercy, no mourners' 
 
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 benches, no time. Can you imagine what earth 
 would be without these? Make it as bad as you 
 can, and then it is what hell is forever, And 
 now, let me give you a description of a lost soul 
 from a preacher of the South, a master of lan- 
 guage, a man who communed with God, and 
 when he passed out of this life he was on his 
 knees in prayer. He lived in an afflicted body, 
 but it was, nevertheless, a temple of the Holy 
 Ghost, and' this man's mind and soul were filled 
 with the quickening touch and power of the 
 Divine within. Hear his description of a lost 
 soul: "Saints commune with saints, and angels 
 with angels, and they all commune with God; 
 but this soul, sympathetic and social in the very 
 construction of its being, its state changed and 
 not its constitutional nature, is eternally isolated 
 from everything like itself, and plunged into an 
 ocean of darkness interminable to its flagging 
 wing, where no sight nor sound will ever greet 
 its aching sense, and d©omed to wander on in 
 the pathless void, while cycles roll and ages go 
 grinding on. See it careering in its bewildered 
 flight. It has crossed its track and recrossed it 
 a thousand times. It is lost, lost beyond the 
 power of finding. It knows it. It feels, but still 
 it flies, now advancing, now regressing. It turns 
 
2 3 o THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 again and lo! a blush of dusky light, a stupend- 
 ous arch of massive bend, greets its vision. It 
 fain would scale the loftiest turret. It soars, it 
 hovers, but, oh, horror of horrors ! temples, gates 
 and towers melt away into darker gloom, and 
 it is left in awful loneliness, hanging in agony, 
 but a speck of quivering terror in untenanted 
 and unilluminated space. Shall it ascend, de- 
 scend, or move off on a level ? There are no ups 
 nor downs or recumbent planes where there is 
 nothing. If ups and downs and planes there are, 
 it may soar up-up-up forever, or dip down-down- 
 down forever, or rush on-on-on forever. It is 
 still — and through all eternity — A Lost Soul! 
 
 See it — yonder, yonder, yonder ! It goes that 
 way — Lost! Lost! Lost! It comes this way, and 
 shrieking Lost — Lost — Lost! till our hearts 
 stand still with horror. Scream on and fly on, 
 cursed and ruined spirit; no battlemented walls 
 of jasper will ever meet thy gaze, or furnish a 
 resting place for thy weary pinions. Fly on, lost 
 soul, forever; no angel of mercy will ever cross 
 thy solitary way or overtake thee in thy wander- 
 ings. Lost spirits blackened with the curse of thy 
 God, fly on and repeat in thy despairing cry the 
 chorus of thine own horrible death march. Lost 
 — lost, where no echos will ever mock thy 
 
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 misery. Immortal soul, lost in boundless, 
 bottomless, infinite darkness; fly on, thou shalt 
 never find company till the ghost of eternity will 
 greet you over the grave of God, and thou shalt 
 never find rest till thou art able to fold thy wings 
 on the gravestone of thy MJaker. And the Judge 
 will say to the angels : Bind Him hand and foot 
 and take him away and cast him into outer dark- 
 ness. There shall he weeping and gnashing of 
 teeth (Matt. 22:13)/ " 
 
232 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 XIII 
 DWELL DEEP 
 
 "Dwell deep — without care — alone" (Jer. 49: 
 
 30-30. 
 
 Jesus knew what we would have to do if we 
 were to dwell deep, and so he told us in a parable 
 of a man who was going to build a house and 
 he digged down deep. He got all the rubbish, 
 and sand and clay out of the way. He also told 
 us that storms were coming and the building 
 we erected would be tested, and it was necessary 
 that we should build on the Rock. All the time 
 we are living we are building — for all are build- 
 ers — and all may see there is a necessity for deep 
 Egging- The Christian life is built on Christ. 
 He is the Foundation — other foundation can no 
 man lay. The poet has well said, 
 
 "On Christ the solid Rock I stand, 
 All other ground is sinking sand! 1 
 
 It means much to go with God. We will find 
 the crowd, the multitude going the other way. 
 
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 "Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, 
 and many there be that go in thereat/' It took 
 a hundred years to make a Stradivarius, but 
 when it was made it was worth twenty-five hun- 
 dred dollars. It took God and Stradivarius to 
 make one. First, the tree to grow, to grow where 
 the winds and storms would beat on it, where 
 the lightnings and thunders would play around 
 it. These would toughen its fiber, would get it 
 ready for good work some day in the hands of an 
 artist. Then, after all the years, the ax would 
 be applied and it would be cut down, and then 
 placed away till all the moisture was out, and 
 then Stradivarius, with knife and plane. So it 
 is with the Christian life. It means all hell to 
 oppose, the world to hate, the carnal mind to 
 criticize and scoff, to be at times misunderstood, 
 and it is necessary to build, and more necessary 
 to dig down deep. Oh, there are so many super- 
 ficial, shallow professors these days — so many 
 giglers. I went one day into a large furniture 
 house, and the salesman, one of the firm, showed 
 me a piece of furniture that he said was cherry. 
 A nice piece of furniture, and he would sell it 
 to me at a very reasonable figure, considering 
 it was cherry. I bought it, took it home, showed 
 
234 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 it to wife, and lo and behold, it was cherry — on 
 the outside. It was a very nice job of veneering; 
 looked like cherry, but it was a very thin piece 
 of cherry glued and pressed tight to a very light 
 wood. There is so mjuch veneering in these 
 days; inot worth [much when it comes to the 
 testing. Men do not want — much less seek — for 
 God's way. They are like an old farmer who 
 had plenty of money and brought his son to Mr. 
 Garfield to get an education. Mr. Garfield was 
 the president of the college, and he showed the 
 farmer a catalogue, and what would be required 
 of the young man; and he told him, further, that 
 it would take four years or more to finish the 
 course contemplated. The old man said, "I do 
 not want him here four years. I can pay for his 
 education." Mr. Garfield saw the point at once 
 and replied, "It takes a hundred years to grow 
 an oak; you can have a squash in a few months. 
 What do you want your boy to be — an oak or 
 a squash?" It was ships of oak as well as hearts 
 of oak that made Britain the mistress of the 
 seas for so many years. There are storms com- 
 ing, dig down deep. You are building for the 
 skies. When you contemplate building high you 
 must go down deep. I was in Philadelphia one 
 
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 day and stopped to look at a foundation they 
 were preparing. It was way down deep, far be- 
 low the surface. It cost something to put it in, 
 but they counted the cost and said, "It will pay 
 to go down." When they built the St. Louis 
 bridge across the Mississippi River, the engineer 
 who drew the plan said to the contractors, "You 
 must go down till you strike the rock." And the 
 contractors said to the foreman, "You must go 
 down till you strike the rock." And the foreman 
 said to the men, "You must dig down deep till 
 you strike the rock." And they began, they went 
 down day after day, and one day the man said, 
 " We have the rock." They sent a piece of the 
 rock up to the engineers, who after a look said, 
 "No, that is only sandstone; go down till you get 
 the rock." They dug a few days more and said, 
 "Now we have the rock, and again they sent up 
 a piece; but the engineers said, "No, that is not 
 rock yet; that is only a little harder sandstone." 
 And on they went digging down deeper. But 
 one day they heard a great shout coming up from 
 the men. This time they did not send up a piece 
 to be examined. They said, "We have the 
 rock." The engineers shouted back, "How do 
 you know?" Back came more shouting, "We 
 struck fire!" Sure enough, you will know when 
 
236 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 you have struck the rock you will get fire at the 
 same time. Never stop digging till you get fire. 
 It is promised, "There is one among you . . . 
 He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and 
 Href' Where He is there is fire — and you will 
 know it, and other folks will know it, too. Have 
 you been down so deep that you have struck the 
 fire. We can never dwell deep, unless we first 
 dig deep. 
 
 Dwell Deep. A man who had one time gone 
 down until he struck the Rock and consequently 
 was dwelling deep, said, and I think I can hear 
 the shout of victory in the tones, "For me to 
 live is Christ. The life I now live, I live by the 
 faith of the Son of God who loves me and gave 
 himself for me." When we dwell deep we dwell 
 in Him, not in the church alone, not in folks, 
 but in Him. We can and do sing, "He is mine 
 and I am His." We live in the Spirit and the 
 Spirit in us. That means we are led by the 
 Spirit. We walk in the Spirit and do not fulfill 
 the lusts of the flesh. We then move in Christ. 
 All our ambitions, all our desires are in His will. 
 All our activities are in harmony with his plan 
 for us. All our inspirations are from Him. If 
 we want to go to Bythinia, and He says, "No," 
 we say no, too. If we are looking toward Asia 
 
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 and He says, "No," we are as cheerfully obedi- 
 ent as if He had said yes. We not only move 
 in Him, we move for Him. The love of Christ 
 constraineth us. If He says slums, we say slums 
 with all our might. I have never yet been able 
 to understand why folks should weep and moan 
 because God told them to go to the slums. If 
 that is His will, better be in the slums working 
 for Him than in Heaven. If He says Africa, 
 say Amen. I once heard a young woman who 
 had for years had the call of God upon her for 
 Africa, make this remark: "Why doesn't God 
 call some girl whose mother does not need her 
 at home." Let us stop talking about the sweet 
 will of God while at the same time we are fight- 
 ing His place for us, anywhere. Carey was in 
 India because God wanted Him there. Taylor 
 was in China because the King pointed there. 
 Melville was called to Africa and the Missionary 
 Board said we have not the money to send you, 
 and he replied, "I must go to Africa if I go as a 
 hand before the mast." That is the spirit that 
 makes the angels rejoice and sets all the bells of 
 heaven ringing. 
 
 When a soul dwells in Him, all the ambitions 
 are in His will. As Wesley sang, so it is the 
 language of the soul: 
 
2i,& THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 Take my soul and body's powers, 
 
 Take my memory, mind and will; 
 All my goods and all my hours, 
 
 All I know or think or feel, 
 All I speak and all I do, 
 
 Take my heart, but make it new. 
 How blest are they who still abide, 
 Close sheltered in Thy bleeding side; 
 Who thence their strength and life derive, 
 And by Thee move, and in Thee live. 
 Dwell without care. Down here, in a world 
 that is full of care? Yes, right here, and it is 
 a lesson it will do us good to learn. The prom- 
 ise made to those who will seek first the Kingdom 
 of God and His righteousness is, "And all these 
 things shall be added unto you." Food, raiment, 
 and the things the Gentiles seek after. We may 
 prove we are Israel indeed. We can carry the 
 goods with us so people will know we are one 
 hundred per cent Israel. There is a law now 
 that miakes the manufacturer write on the label 
 the contents of the can, and that it is all it pro- 
 fesses to be; and if the can does not contain 
 goods according to the label, then the makers 
 may be prosecuted. In other words, tbe law says 
 live up to the label. It can be done, it may be 
 done, it should be done, and it must be done, if 
 
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 we ever see the inside of the pearly gates. Patti, 
 that wonderful soprano, once went to a city 
 where she was almost a complete stranger. She 
 called at the postoffice to get her mail, and there 
 were a great many letters for one Adelina Patti, 
 but she must be identified, and there was no one 
 to do it. Again she applied, but the clerk said, 
 "I am sorry, but you must prove to me that you 
 are Patti." A happy thought struck her, and 
 at once she began to sing a simple little song. 
 The people stood with open-eyed wonder, the 
 clerks came to the windows, all work ceased, and 
 an old clerk cried out, "That is Adelina Patti." 
 Of course she got her mail — she had proved her- 
 self. We must, the world demands it. Jesus 
 said, "Ye are my witnesses." Live without care. 
 Madame Guyon was shut up in a prison, but she 
 was free from care and sang in her cage like a 
 bird: 
 
 "My Lord, how full of sweet content 
 I pass my years of banishment! 
 Where'er I dwell, I dwell with Thee, 
 In heaven, in earth, or on the sea. 
 To me remains nor place, nor time; 
 My country is in every clime; 
 I can be calm, and free from care 
 On any shore, since God is there." f & 
 
2 4 o THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 Hear Him! from the Word. Casting all your 
 Care on Him for He careth for you. My God 
 shall supply all your needs according to the 
 riches of His grace in glory by Christ Jesus. No 
 good thing will He withhold from him that 
 walketh uprightly. If we care for God, we will 
 care for His cause, and He will care for us. 
 Queen Elizabeth once appointed one of her no- 
 bles, a man of ability, to a foreign ambassador- 
 ship, and he, thinking of his own estates at home, 
 said to the Queen, "Who will look after my in- 
 terests while I am gone?" and she at once re- 
 plied, "You look after my affairs abroad and I 
 will care for you and yours. " He trusted her 
 and went. Be careful to be careless — that is, 
 without care. I know now you are thinking 
 Gentile thoughts; but it is true and some have 
 proved it to be true. There was a man in the 
 city of Pittsburg, who was most blessedly saved 
 while working for a railroad company, and he 
 at once went to the superintendent and said, "I 
 cannot work any more on Sunday, so I cannot 
 go out tomorrow. " The superintendent asked, 
 "Why can't you work?" and he said, "I have got 
 religion and I cannot work on the Lord's Day 
 and keep a clear conscience." "Well," was the 
 response, "you have more religion than is good 
 
WORDS THAT BURN 241 
 
 for you. Go to the office and get your time. We 
 don't want men who are too good to work on 
 Sunday." He was discharged and went home. 
 His wife met him at the door and he told her, 
 "Wife, I am fired." "What for?" she asked. 
 "Because I will not work on Sunday." She said, 
 "You are a fool. As good men as you work on 
 Sunday and belong to church, too." But he went 
 on his way and would not work. The street cor- 
 ners were filled with mien who were out of work. 
 He tried to get a job, but failed. He used up 
 all the money he had in the bank, then used up 
 all the credit he had at the store, the merchant 
 saying, "I know you are honest. I have trusted 
 you until the bill is more than I can afford to 
 carry. I am carrying so many others." And he 
 went home to hear his wife's taunts again. Then 
 he went upstairs and opened his Bible and in 
 prayer he said to God, "Here is your word, Lord, 
 seek ye first the kingdom of God and His right- 
 eousness, and behold all these things shall be 
 added unto you. Now, Lord, I am out of work 
 because I minded Thee. Please prove Thy Word 
 to me and get me work." And do you know that 
 God did it? In a day or two a knock was heard 
 at the door, and the call boy said, "The super- 
 intendent wants to see you." So down to the 
 
242 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 office he went and the superintendent said, 
 "Have you got a job yet?" "No, sir; I have 
 looked everywhere, but I am still out of work." 
 "Will you work on Sunday?" was the next query, 
 and as quick as the light travels came the an- 
 swer from the heart of the young man, "No, sir ; 
 I will not work on Sunday for the railroad or 
 anyone else." The superintendent laughed and 
 said, "Well, I have a job for you. I want you 
 to be conductor on a local passenger. It has no 
 Sunday run, and your wages will be twenty dol- 
 lars a month more than you had in your old 
 place." We do not have to care. We have all the 
 angels in heaven to minister unto us; we have 
 God looking out for us, and He holds jobs in the 
 hollow of His hand for those who trust Him. 
 He knows all about the future — you do not. 
 Trust Him and live your trust. He knew that 
 the day would come when there would be a fam- 
 ine in the land of Canaan ; he knew that some of 
 the heirs of the promise would be in that land, 
 so He sent a man down there twenty years ahead 
 of the famine to miake provision for the heirs. 
 Not only that for seven long years He made the 
 soil in the land of Egypt to bring forth by hands- 
 ful, and then He had it stored away in granaries 
 so it would keep good for the heirs, and then 
 
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 He made it so the heirs had to get down to the 
 corn, and He gave them Goshen, the richest 
 province in all the kingdom, where they could 
 raise sheep and eat corn and live without care. 
 
 Have faith in God! The starry dome, 
 
 The verdant earth, each flowery plain, 
 The babbling brook — and all combined 
 
 A Father s love and power proclaim. 
 And not a sparrow to the ground 
 
 Can fall without His wise decree — 
 In Him shall light and life be found — 
 
 Have faith in God— He cares for thee! 
 
 "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, 
 so the Lord is round about them that put their 
 trust in Him." 
 
 Dwell Alone. 'Get alone with Him. This is 
 the one thing needed. I have had good times in 
 the public worship, good times in the social serv- 
 ices, the prayer and testimony meetings. God 
 has blessed me so in preaching that I have actu- 
 ally thought if He blessed me any more I would 
 not be able to endure it in the flesh; but the 
 sweetest times in all my Christian experience 
 have been when I was alone with Him in secret. 
 When thou prayest enter into thy closet, and 
 when thou hast shut the door, pray to thy Father 
 
244 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 which seeth in secret, and He shall reward thee 
 openly. But to lie still in His presence, to let 
 Him talk to you, to just know that it is God who 
 is dealing with you in love, and you are alone 
 with Himi. You can tell Him things you would 
 not tell anyone else, and He will tell you things 
 He would not tell anyone else about you. A 
 friend is one who knows all about you and still 
 Joves you, and the only one that I know of to 
 whom that will apply is God. He's a Friend 
 above all others. Oh, how He loves! His is 
 love beyond a brother's. Oh, how He loves! 
 Earthly friends may fail and leave you. This 
 day kind — tomorrow grieve you ; but this Friend 
 will ne'er deceive you. Oh, how He loves ! Take 
 time to be alone with Him. I read some time ago 
 if you have thirty minutes for the closet, take 
 ten minutes to read the Word, ten minutes more 
 to pray, and then Ten Minutes to be still, and let 
 Him talk to you. This will be the sweetest part 
 of the thirty minutes. Jesus often went up to 
 the mountain tops to be alone with the Father. 
 He went to the garden to talk with the Father. 
 He went a stone's throw farther to be alone with 
 Him, and pour out His heart in cries and tears. 
 He left us an example, and we should follow in 
 His footsteps. We may dwell alone with Him. 
 
WORDS THAT BURN 245 
 
 "When storms of life around me beating, 
 
 And rough the path that I have trod, 
 Within my closet door retreating, 
 
 I love to be alone with God. 
 Alone with God, the world forbidden — 
 
 Alone with God, O blest retreat — 
 Alone with God and in Him hidden, 
 
 To find with Him communion sweet" 
 
246 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 XIV 
 HELL A PLACE AND A STATE 
 
 "In hell he lifted up his eyes." (Luke 16:23.) 
 
 One time I was asked to go to see a man who 
 was dying — an old man about eighty years of 
 age. He did not want to see me, and I went 
 there with the understanding that he did not 
 want to see a preacher. I talked to him about 
 preparation for the future, and he made this re- 
 mark to me, "I had nothing to do with my com- 
 ing here, and I have nothing to do with my go- 
 ing away, and as to whether there is any here- 
 after, I do not know." He said, "Nobody ever 
 camle back" — but there was where he was wrong. 
 Somebody has come back. They were burying 
 a man in the land where the old prophet Elisha 
 was buried. They were carrying his corpse out 
 when a number of raiders made their appear- 
 ance, and these people were frightened and in- 
 stead of putting the body in the grave allotted 
 to it, they put it down in the grave where it 
 touched Elisha's bones, and immediately the 
 
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 corpse was brought to life. He came back, but 
 we have no record that he told us anything* about 
 where he had been. I do not believe that a soul 
 ever loses consciousness. I think it steps out of 
 this life into the life to comle; this body fails, but 
 the life v that has come to the soul never fails. 
 Lazarus was four days in the other world. Jesus 
 Christ stood in front of his sepulcher and called 
 him forth, and he came, and he sat at the table 
 with Jesus and ate with Him, and the people 
 came to see the man who had been raised from 
 the dead; but we have not a record, of a single 
 word that he ever said * % hat. the world beyond. 
 Dorcas died; they .^ni for the Apostle and he 
 came, and the women stood around showing the 
 garments that she had made and were weeping, 
 and the Apostle called her back to life; but not 
 a single word is given — not a single utterance 
 about the life beyond. Paul preached so long one 
 night that a fellow who was sitting in the win- 
 dow went to sleep and fell out of the window, and 
 they picked him up dead, and God through Paul 
 restored him to life, but the man never told a 
 word about the land to which he had been. 
 Why? Because eternal verities are not to be 
 proved by human testimony. There is a reason. 
 "Neither will they believe though one was raised 
 
248 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 from the dead." And they did not. All of our 
 knowledge comes from the Word of God. I be- 
 lieve in the whole Gospel, a whole Christ, a whole 
 heaven, and a whole hell. If there is no hell, 
 there is no heaven. All that you know about 
 heaven you get from that Word; all that you 
 know about hell you get from that Book. Jesus 
 Christ was the most gentle man that ever walked 
 this earth, but he told the most terrible truths 
 in regard to the fact of hell — he told us so that 
 we might avoid it. It is not a threat; it is a 
 warning. You take your Bibles and you read, 
 "Hell hath enlarged herself." And again, "It is 
 better for thee to enter into life maimed, than 
 having two hands to go into hell, into the fire 
 that never shall be quenched: where their worm 
 dieth not, and the fire is not quenched." Who 
 said so? Jesus. "And if thy foot offend thee, 
 cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into 
 life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, 
 into the fire that never shall be quenched : where 
 their worm dieth not, and the fire is not 
 quenched." "And if thine eye offend thee, pluck 
 it out : it is better for thee to enter into the king- 
 dom of God with one eye, than having two eyes 
 to be cast into hell fire: where their worm dieth 
 
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 not, and the fire is not quenched." Jesus Christ 
 knew what He was talking about. 
 
 Listen to my text, Jesus' words: "In hell he 
 lifted up his eyes." Who was he? A church 
 member. George Whitefield was preaching one 
 time in Philadelphia in his inimitable manner, 
 and he said, "Gabriel, are there any Methodists 
 in heaven?" "No." "Any Presbyterians in 
 heaven?" "No." "Any Baptists in heaven?" 
 "No." And he might have said, "Any Holiness 
 people in heaven?" "No." "Well, who have you 
 there?" "All those who have washed their robes 
 and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." 
 "Any Methodists in hell?" "Yes." "Any Presby- 
 terians in hell?" "Yes." "Any Baptists in hell?" 
 "Yes." "Any Holiness people in hell?" "Yes." 
 Your church membership will not save you; 
 your profession will not save you; your mere 
 testimony will not save you. The Bible says, 
 "They were saved by the blood of the Lamb and 
 the word of their testimony," but the blood comes 
 first. That is the teaching of God's Word. This 
 man was a church member. Listen! I am not 
 asking your pardon for saying so, I am not apol- 
 ogizing for the truth, I do not believe that half 
 the people who make a profession of Jesus Christ 
 have ever been saved, and I do not believe that 
 
250 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 half of the people who profess to having been 
 sanctified have received the blessing. Why? "By 
 their fruits ye shall know them." I labored with 
 Dr. Keen a few years ago, and he has put it 
 on record that 75 per cent of the church members 
 that he prayed with when they were dying, he 
 had to pray that they might be ready. Church 
 mjembers ! This man was a church member. "In 
 hell he lifted up his eyes." He had the Bible; 
 had the thirty-nine books of the Old Testament; 
 he had the Scriptures to which Jesus referred 
 when He said, "Search the Scriptures, they are 
 they which testify of me." These thirty-nine 
 books testify of Jesus. This man had these books 
 — had them in his home. He was an orthodox 
 Jew; he was a member of the church, but he 
 died without any hope, just as many a church 
 member has died. It takes more than your name 
 on the church record, it takes more than sprin- 
 kling a few drops of water on you or going in 
 the river; it takes more than partaking of the 
 sacraments to make a man a Christian. You can 
 support the preacher, you can give your money 
 to the church, you can make a profession, you 
 can have a button in your buttonhole labeled, 
 "Holiness unto the Lord," and die and go to hell. 
 Bible Salvation is a life — just as good on Mbn- 
 
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 day as it is on Sunday; just as good in the middle 
 of winter timie as it is in Campmeeting season. 
 Just as good when you are 1,000 miles away 
 from campmeeting and the folks that know you 
 — just as life-giving, just as soul sustaining, just 
 as heaven-inspiring — as it is when you are sur- 
 rounded by the saints. I enjoy Christian fellow- 
 ship; I enjoy the songs of Zion. Sometimes I 
 hardly know whether I am in the body or out of 
 it when some saint of God gets hold in prayer 
 and the skies begin to open and the glory flows; 
 but God bless you ! your salvation or miine does 
 not depend on the number of Christians there 
 are around us ; it depends on our personal rela- 
 tion to God. 
 
 This man was a church member of good stand- 
 ing, but Jesus Christ, moving in the power of 
 the Spirit, giving heaven-born truths into the 
 world, Jesus Christ says, this man died and "in 
 hell he lifted up his eyes." Church member! 
 Orthodox, good standing! 
 
 We know something of hell. In hell they see ; 
 they know heaven is afar off, and they know it 
 is not for them,. There is a legend, Tantalus 
 ever standing with a fountain of water rising 
 right up to his lips. He is thirsty, and oh, if he 
 could only have a drink ! if he could only have a 
 
252 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 drink! He bends his body forward to take a 
 drink of the water, and it recedes, and when he 
 straightens up the water rises right up to his 
 lips. Thirsty! Days, weeks, months without 
 water! Moves forward again to take a drink 
 and the water recedes, rises again and the water 
 rises right to his lips, but the water is not for 
 him. The lost in hell know that over yonder 
 somewhere in God's great empire, there is a 
 heaven, there is a place where the redeemed 
 gather, where there is no night, where there is 
 no sickness, where there are no tears, and they 
 know it is not for them! Once they might have 
 been saved, once they might have had the peace 
 and joy of the redeemed, but it has gone by for- 
 ever, and they are eternally lost. They know 
 that in hell. Hell is no joke; hell is not a dream ; 
 hell is not an imagination. God tells us in His 
 Word that there is a hell that awaits the man 
 who rejects the truth of God. You do not have 
 to get drunk, do not have to be an adulterer, do 
 not have to be licentious, do not have to be un- 
 clean; you can be a good citizen, pay off your 
 debts, live a moral life and die and go to hell 
 simply because you reject Jesus Christ and re- 
 fuse to walk in the light that God gives you. 
 You can be very respectable and go to hell ; you 
 
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 can have the good opinion of your neighbors, 
 and go to hell; you can be a good husband, and 
 go to hell. Listen! God in His Word says to 
 us, "Because there is wrath, beware!" The 
 wrath of God is revealed from heaven against 
 all unrighteousness and ungodliness of man. It 
 means something to be a Christian; it means 
 something to live for God. Some people think 
 that because they pay their debts and live an 
 outwardly respectable life, that is about all that 
 is required of them. Any honest man will pay 
 his debts; morality is only another name for de- 
 cency in sinning, and it has never saved any- 
 body yet. The young man said, "All these have 
 I kept from my youth up," yet came to Jesus 
 and said, "What shall I do to inherit eternal 
 lile?" He knew he did not have it, and he was 
 moral. Oh, it means something to live for God ! 
 The lost in hell know the saints are at rest — 
 know the enjoyment of heaven. There will be 
 many a girl wake up in hell and say, "My mother 
 is over there : she shed tears for me : she exhort- 
 ed me, she lived for God before me, but I am lost 
 forever." You say, "Look here, preacher; hell 
 is the abode of spirits !" No, not alone ; it is the 
 abode of men who have bodies just as you and 
 I have. You say, "You cannot prove it." There 
 
254 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 is a resurrection of the just and unjust, a reunit- 
 ing of soul and body; the soul and body will stand 
 before the judgment seat of Jesus Christ, and 
 the Judge will say, "Depart from me ye cursed 
 into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and 
 his angels." 
 
 Another thing they do in hell — they feel. This 
 man in hell lifted up his eyes being in torment. 
 He said, "I am tormented." That is a feeling. 
 Tormented! "I might have been saved, but the 
 harvest is past. I had conviction which was 
 wrought by the Holy Ghost; I saw others going 
 to the altar and praying through to victory, but 
 I rejected Jesus, grieved the Holy Ghost, ignored 
 the truth, and now I am lost in hell forever." 
 Man is the author of his own damnation, man 
 is fixing his own destiny by his actions in this 
 life. God says so right here in His Word. 
 
 Another thing we know they do in hell — they 
 pray — and, listen! I want you to get it — if the 
 doctors did not drug you before you died, you 
 would pray before you went to hell. Nine-tenths 
 of the people who die today die drugged by the 
 doctors, and pass out into eternity unconscious! 
 If you did not give that drug to the sinner be- 
 fore the black demons who are waiting around 
 his bedside began to take hold of him, he would 
 
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 scream! and cry to God for mercy. I was with 
 a wounded soldier boy who was waiting for a 
 car to come and take him to the hospital. I had 
 to listen to that dying boy in blue: "O God! O 
 God ! O God ! Have mercy on my soul !" There 
 were a lot of soldier boys around there, but no- 
 body laughed; there was silence — he was facing 
 eternity — going out into eternity unsaved. I was 
 nineteen years of age, and I can hear him yet: 
 "O God! O God! O God! Have mercy on my 
 soul!" Oh, if it were not for your drugs they 
 would pray before they go to hell. This man in 
 hell prayed. What for ? A drop of water! Did 
 not get it. Prayed for mercy. Did not get it. 
 Mercy is offered here; mercy is all around us; 
 grace has been provided, but when men reject 
 the mercy and refuse the grace, they will wake 
 up in hell and pray for mercy, and plead for 
 grace — but mercy and grace are refused. This 
 man prayed, but in hell there is no answer. 
 
 They are hopeless in hell; weeping, gnashing 
 their teeth, biting their lips, chewing their 
 tongues — hopeless, despairing, curse God, curse 
 Jesus Christ, curse the Holy Ghost, curse the 
 preacher that did not preach the truth, curse the 
 church member who lived alongside of them and 
 did not talk to them about their souls. Hell is 
 
256 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 a place where hate reigns predominantly and 
 eternally. 
 
 Hell is the prison house of the damned. I was 
 in a city one time; I wanted my boy to see what 
 sin would do for folks, so I took him into the 
 jail. The little fellow clung to me and held on 
 to my hand, never opened his mouth, just looked 
 up in my face, looked at the jail, looked at the 
 benches in the cells, looked at the cold, bare 
 walls, looked at the prisoners, and he came out 
 with a scared look on his face and never said 
 one word. Hell, the prison house of the 
 damned. No comfort, no joy, no peace, no com- 
 munion, not even with one another. Curse God, 
 curse each other. Hell is the prison house of 
 the damned! 
 
 He was a church member, but he was in hell. 
 May one time have had an experience, but he 
 died without God and in hell he lifted up his eyes 
 being in torment. In hell they want to die. 
 Somebody told me one time, "An Englishman is 
 dying over there; you go over and see him. He 
 does not want to see you, but you go over and 
 see him." I went and found that he was dying 
 with a cancer, and every time a pain would 
 strike him he would groan and would say, "I 
 wish I had a knife!" And directly he would say, 
 
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 "Oh, let me have a razor ! Oh, if I had a razor 
 I would stop this!" But, listen! no matter how 
 terrible the paroxysms in hell, they never com- 
 mit suicide. How many suicides in the United 
 States last year? Suicides; but you cannot com- 
 mit suicide in hell. They want to die in hell — 
 * and cannot. 
 
 Every man and woman here tonight is facing 
 an eternal heaven or an eternal hell. Which 
 way are you going? Can you stand up and say, 
 "Yes, by the grace of God I am going to heaven ; 
 I have the witness of the Spirit that I am a child 
 of God?" If you cannot, God help you! "The 
 words that I speak unto you, they shall judge 
 you in the last day." God says so. I am dealing 
 with God's truth. I challenge any man in this 
 room or anywhere else to come to my room and 
 point out to me anything that I am preaching 
 that is not the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 Cannot repent in hell. The devil says, "There 
 is time enough yet, time enough yet." But, lis- 
 ten ! This man said, "Send Lazarus that he may 
 warn my brothers that they may repent." He 
 never says anything about repenting himself — 
 he knows there is no repentance in hell. Oh, 
 aren't they sorry in hell? Yes, but that is not 
 repentance. Repentance is a godly sorry for sin. 
 
258 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 There is no repentance in hell. That old Bible 
 says, "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the 
 unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return 
 unto the Lord, for he will have mercy and to 
 our God, for He will abundantly pardon." There 
 is pardon; there is mercy. When? "Now is the 
 accepted time; now is the day of salvation." "By 
 the grace of God Jesus Christ tasted death for 
 every man." "Whosoever will let him come." 
 "Oh, if it is that easy, I can find God any time 
 I want to." No, you cannot do it. There have 
 been people here who have been coming and com- 
 ing to the altar and are not saved yet ; and I knew 
 a girl who sought the Lord for six weeks, and 
 finally she got through, and before the year was 
 over I preached her funeral sermon. If you can 
 be saved anytime, why was not that girl saved 
 at the beginning, will you please tell me J You 
 cannot be saved any time you please. There are 
 conditions to be complied with. Dr. Chaplin was 
 dying, and the agony was so great he said, "Oh, 
 I pity any sinner that has to try to get ready at 
 a time like this." My Bible says, "Now is the 
 accepted time." My Bible says, "Be ye also 
 ready; for in such an hour as ye think not the 
 son of man cometh." 
 
 Listen! There are no children in hell! Say, 
 
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 you remember when you stood in your parlor and 
 looked down on the sweet little face in the white 
 casket — the corpse of your child. You will never 
 see it again. Listen, sinner — you will never see 
 that child again ! There are no children in hell. 
 "There angels do always behold the face of my 
 Father which is in heaven. ,, Jesus Christ who 
 tells us there is a heaven and a hell, says of 
 children, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven." 
 Listen, sinner ! When you saw the little child in 
 that casket in your parlor you took your last look 
 at that little one you will ever have, for there 
 are no children in hell. There are no homes in 
 hell. Home is where love presides ; home is where 
 love reigns. There may be no piano, there may 
 be no velvet carpet, there may be no paintings on 
 the wall, but if there is love there, it is home; but 
 there are no homes in hell, for there is no love 
 in hell. Oh, we know something about hell; we 
 know from this Word. Everyone that enters 
 the eternal world saved through the blood of 
 Jesus Christ have the love of God shed abroad 
 in their hearts by the Holy Ghost. Love reigns 
 in heaven — hate reigns in hell. 
 
 I saw a foretaste of hell one time. It was 
 on a campground in Indiana. A young man 
 came to the altar, knelt down and pulled out o* 
 
2<5o THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 his pocket a bottle of morphine and handed it to 
 my co-laborer, saying, "Take this; I do not want 
 it any more." Brother L took it and provi- 
 dentially smashed it all to pieces. The next day 
 
 Brother L saw that young man and he said, 
 
 "How are you today?" "Not very well," and 
 his nerves were twitching, but he said, "I am not 
 going back to it." He knelt at the altar a second 
 time and we prayed for him, but his nerves were 
 all on fire. Sunday morning, the last day of the 
 Camp, someone came around to our little cottage 
 and said, "That young man is down here wanting 
 morphine." I went down to where he was, and 
 there he lay with his head pillowed on his moth- 
 er's shoulder and he said, "I want morphine; I 
 must have morphine." He said, "Brother, go 
 harness up that horse; I will drive thirty miles. 
 I know the doctor will give it to me. Great G^d, 
 I am in hell ! Great God, I want morphine !" His 
 mother said, "Now, Everett, we will pray for 
 you." Somebody said, "Look to Jesus." He 
 said, "Oh, Jesus nothing!" They sent for the 
 doctor and he said, "Doctor, give me a shot in 
 there." Somebody said, "Don't you give him 
 any; he has smashed his morphine bottle and is 
 trying to break away from it. Don't you give it 
 to him," He said, "Oh, I am dying; I am in 
 
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 hell, and I have to have it ! I have to have it !" 
 I said, "There is a foretaste of hell/' Oh, I saw 
 that. But, listen! You cannot get morphine in 
 hell. Oh, that is an example of hell ! Make that 
 eternal and multiply it by forever, and you have 
 the agonies of the damned. God help us ! What- 
 ever your sin is, you had better repent of it, for 
 it is sin that sends men to hell. 
 
 Over in Kentucky a member of the church lay 
 on his death bed, and he realized he was dying 
 and said, "I am lost ! I am lost ! I ami lost !" His 
 wife said, "No, husband, you are not lost. Oh, 
 what could the church have done without you? 
 You have been a stand-by to the church all these 
 years. You are not lost." She sends over to 
 get the preacher. He comes. "Husband says 
 he is lost; comfort him." The preacher walks 
 over and the man says, "I am lost! I am lost! I 
 am lost !" The preacher says, "No, brother, you 
 are not lost. You have been the pillar of the 
 church on which it could depend." He walked 
 away and said, "He is delirious." He said, "I 
 am not delirious; you are my pastor; that man 
 there owned the farm next to me when I was 
 farming in the country. There is my wife sit- 
 ting there. Don't tell me I am delirious; don't 
 tell me of my church work. I am lost ! I am dy- 
 
262 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 ing and going to hell, and I am a church mem- 
 ber." So was this man, and in hell he lifted up 
 his eyes. Bunyan says, "There is a way to hell 
 from the very gate of heaven." 
 
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 XV 
 AFTER THIS- 
 
 "It is appointed unto man once to die, but after 
 this " (Heb. 9:27). 
 
 God's appointments always come round. 
 When Captain Scott, the intrepid Englishman 
 who went into the Anarctic regions hoping to 
 discover the South Pole, he made all the arrange- 
 ments for success that human wisdom and fore- 
 thought could devise ; he had relays of provisions 
 left for them on their return, he had engaged a 
 party to come in time to a certain place to meet 
 them. He went south, was bitterly disappointed 
 to find a Scandinavian explorer had been there 
 and left the evidence of his discovery. He start- 
 ed with his companions on the way back, came 
 midst the most terrific storms man had ever en- 
 countered, and found that someone had failed 
 him. He laid down to die and before passing 
 away he wrote in his diary, "We did the best 
 we knew, made all the arrangements that expe- 
 rience and wisdom of man could devise, but 
 
264 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 our appointments have failed." Valiant man, 
 brave heart, must die disappointed because man's 
 appointments fail! But God's never fail! It is 
 not only appointed that man shall die, but after 
 this there is an appointment that all must reach 
 and meet. After life, after the Gospel, after the 
 last sermon has been heard, after the last con- 
 viction has been wrought in the heart by the 
 Holy Ghost, after you have attended the last 
 meeting, heard the last prayer, after the sight 
 Of your loved ones has faded out from your 
 vision, after the last pressure of the hand, after 
 the last goodbye, after the death damp has been 
 wiped from your brow, after the doctor says, 
 "He is gone." What then? 
 
 Oh, yes; this does concern you; it is the ap- 
 pointment that God has made for you. Death 
 is on your track — nearer now than ever before. 
 How old are you? Twenty years? Death has 
 gained twenty years on you. Fifty years old? 
 Death has gained fifty years on you. Does not 
 concern the young so much ? Oh, it surely does ; 
 there are more young folks die than any others. 
 Half of the race die before they are fifteen years 
 old. The average age of the remainder is thirty- 
 eight years. Only one person in five hundred 
 reaches the age of sixty-five. Your pulse is beat- 
 
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 ing funeral marches to the grave. Hear the 
 poet as he sings the truth that you do not want 
 to hear, you do not like to think about. You may 
 as well acknowledge it, you do not like to hear 
 such sermons as I am preaching; you want bou- 
 quets and rosewater; you forget that the man 
 who is called of God to preach the Gospel is called 
 to preach not what you want to hear, but what 
 you ought to hear. The poet was true to human 
 experience : 
 
 Lo, on a narrow neck of land, 
 'Twixt two unbounded seas I stand, 
 
 Secure, insensible. 
 A moment's time, a moment's space, 
 'Removes me to that heavenly place, 
 
 Or shuts me up in hell. 
 
 Death is an enemy. I read the other day one 
 of the miaxims of the Duke of Wellington, and 
 it read like this: "Never undervalue your ene- 
 my." Death is a monster, the last enemy that 
 shall be destroyed is death. God's Word for it — 
 and you must meet death. Think of it now, hear 
 the Master say, "Be ye also ready for in such 
 an hour as you think not," you must meet this 
 enemy. 
 
266 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 "My thoughts on awful subjects roll. 
 
 Damnation and the dead. 
 What horrors seize a guilty soul, 
 
 Upon a dying bed." 
 
 "But O the soul where vengeance reigns. 
 
 It sinks with groans and endless cries; 
 It rolls amidst the burning flames, 
 
 In endless woes and agonies. 
 There swallowed up in darkest night 
 
 Where devils hoivl and thunders roar, 
 To rage in keen despair and guilt, 
 
 When thousand thousand years are o'er." 
 
 Death is an hour of testing. Testing even to 
 saints. Thomas Walsh, one of Wesley's preach- 
 ers, was on his death bed and the enemy had 
 pursued him to the very end. He cried to God 
 in agony of soul for deliverance, and He heard 
 and the shadows fled away. But what must it 
 be to the sinner who has failed to make the need- 
 ed preparation for the hereafter. I was called 
 once to see a man who was in the agonies of 
 death. It was an awful scene, but all the agonies 
 of the body can never atone for the sins of the 
 soul. A woman was dying and she said to the 
 doctor, "I will give you half of what I am worth 
 if you will prolong my life six months. " He 
 
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 replied, "Madami, I have medicine to dispense, 
 but I cannot dispense time." But after the six 
 months are gone, what then? Louis the Four- 
 teenth said when dying, "The thoughts of the 
 past trouble me." A man went to a campmeeting 
 and was wonderfully wrought upon by the Holy 
 Spirit. When approached by one of the workers 
 he said, "I have no time for religion. I ami very 
 busy." But he had to take time to die; then he 
 was troubled because at that meeting he had said 
 no to God, and he declared with his dying 
 breath, "God left me that night." But will you 
 please get the thought, the agony of the intense 
 regret at that solemn moment did not atone for 
 the sin in rejecting the call of the Spirit. Dr. 
 Ichabod Spencer tells us in his book, "A Pastor's 
 Sketches," of a Universalist who on his death 
 bed renounced his universalism and exhorted his 
 son to follow his mother's teaching. He said: 
 "Die? I will not. I spurned my mother's pray- 
 ers; I was mean to my godly wife, and now hell 
 is my doom forever." His wife exhorted him to 
 pray; Dr. S. pointed him to Jesus; but all of no 
 avail. His past rejections of the Christ seemed 
 to appall his soul, and he died in despair and 
 without any hope or any repentance. But after 
 this — what then? We all must die because one 
 
268 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 man sinned, and so death passed upon all men for 
 that all men have sinned; but please remember 
 that judgment is personal. The sinner and the 
 saint will appear in the eternal world just exactly 
 as they were when they left this one. Same per- 
 son, same character, same record for God to 
 scan. Then man will reap just exactly as he 
 sowed, and just what he sowed. The past deter- 
 mines the future. On the night of the fourteenth 
 of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, Abra- 
 ham Lincoln went to the theater to see a play 
 called "Our American Cousin. " He sat in a 
 private box, and while there Wilkes Booth came 
 along the corridor, entered the box and shot the 
 President right behind the right ear. The bullet 
 destroyed the nerves of sensation and the nerve 
 of motion. Mr. Lincoln never knew what struck 
 him. He was carried across the street into a 
 house where he died at eight twenty the next 
 morning. Booth made his escape, jumping from 
 the box to the floor of the stage, his stirrup 
 catching in the flag which draped the box, caused 
 him to fall and sprain his ankle. He made his 
 way out of the rear of the theater, mounted a 
 horse that was ready for him, and went across 
 the long bridge into Virginia. The U. S. Calvary 
 were on his track and they overtook him in a 
 
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 barn in a little village in the rear of Fredericks- 
 burg, where he was lying wounded. The orders 
 to the soldiers were not to shoot, as they wanted 
 to take him alive; but a fanatic named Boston 
 Corbett fired from his carbine and the bullet en- 
 tered right behind the right ear, exactly where 
 Booth's ball struck Mr. Lincoln, with this differ- 
 ence, only one nerve was destroyed — the nerve 
 of motion. Booth could not move a limb, but he 
 knew all that was transpiring; he was reaping 
 what he sowed and more than he sowed. He 
 died knowing the way of the transgressor is 
 hard, and the end is harder. After this a judg- 
 ment for deeds done in the body. Every word, 
 every thought, every secret thing. God sees and 
 knows and hears, and keeps the record. For ev- 
 ery abused privilege we shall give an account, 
 and let us remember that unused privileges are 
 abused privileges. What have you done with 
 time? How did you spend it? What use did 
 you mJake of the Word given to you. Oh, eter- 
 nity will be an awful eternity to the man who 
 has simply neglected his privileges. I am con- 
 vinced after a ministry of over forty-five years, 
 that the preachers of today are not making 
 enough of eternal verities. The people have 
 heaped to themselves teachers, because they want 
 
270 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 their ears tickled. There are very few who are 
 in the same rank with the eloquent Frenchman 
 who said, "When I endeavor to represent eter- 
 nity, I avail myself of whatever I can conceive 
 most firm and durable. I heap imagination on 
 imagination, conjecture on conjecture. I go 
 from one age to the time of publishing the Gos- 
 pel, then to the publication of the law, and from 
 the law to the flood, and from the flood to cre- 
 ation. I join this epoch to the present time, and 
 . I imagine Adam yet living. Had Adam lived 
 till now, and had he lived in misery, had he 
 passed all his time on a rack, or in a fire, what 
 an idea must we form of his condition? At what 
 price would we agree to expose ourselves to mis- 
 eries so great? What imperial glory would ap- 
 pear glorious were it followed by so much woe; 
 yet this is not eternity — all this is nothing in 
 comparison with Eternity. I go further still. I 
 proceed from imagination to imagination, from 
 supposition to supposition, I take the greatest 
 number of years that can be imagined. I add 
 ages to ages, millions of ages to millions of ages. 
 I form of all these one mixed number, and I 
 stay my imagination. After this I suppose God 
 to create a world like this which we inhabit. I 
 suppose Him creating it by forming one atom 
 
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 after another, and employing in the production 
 of each atom the time fixed in my last calculation. 
 What a numberless sum of ages would the pro- 
 duction of such a world in such a manner re- 
 quire? Then I suppose tfye Creator to arrange 
 these atoms and to pursue the plan of arranging 
 them as of creating them. Finally, I suppose 
 Him to annihilate the whole, observing the same 
 method in the dissolution as in the creation and 
 disposition of the whole. What an immense du- 
 ration would be consumed — and yet, this is not 
 eternity — it is only a point in comparison thereof. 
 Reaping time is coming and it is an eternal reap- 
 ing! One night passed in a burning fever, or 
 in struggling among the waves of the sea, be- 
 tween life and death, appears of immense length. 
 It seems to the sufferer as if the sun had forgot- 
 ten its course, and as if all the laws of nature 
 itself were subverted. What then will be the 
 state of these victims to Divine displeasure, who 
 after they shall have passed through the ages 
 We have just described, will be obliged to make 
 this awful reflection, "All this is but an atom of 
 our misery." What will their despair be when 
 they shall be forced to say to themselves, "Again 
 we must revolve through these enormous periods, 
 again we must suffer the privation of celestial 
 
272 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 happiness, devouring flames again, cruel remorse 
 again, crimes and blasphemies again and again — 
 for ever and for ever." These chains forever! 
 Oh, the absorbing periods of eternity, accumu- 
 lated ages upon myriads of ages, these will be 
 the forever of the lost! 
 
 We must get rid of all contraband goods if 
 we would avoid the agonies of the damned. All 
 sin, all anger, pride, malice, unforgiveness, all 
 slanderous words. I was one time crossing the 
 border, and the porter came to me and said, 
 "Captain, if you do not want to be awakened 
 when the inspectors come through, just open your 
 suitcase and I will look after it and close it up 
 after inspection." I did not fear any inspection, 
 and so did as he told me; but across the aisle 
 there was a man who had something of which 
 he was in doubt about its passing. He had quite 
 a time with the conductor, telling him and asking 
 for information. Well, God will be the Inspector 
 and it becomes us to be careful, for after this 
 there will nothing pass that He hates — and the 
 only thing that God hates is sin in the heart — 
 and it will not escape His all-searching eye. The 
 history of the heart will be laid open, and how 
 can men hope to escape when every day he car- 
 ries around with hiin the evidence of his fall ; 
 
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 for whether he likes to think of it or not, a suit 
 of clothes on the individual is evidence he be- 
 longs to a fallen race; for when man was inno- 
 cent he wore no clothes and did not know he was 
 naked. With sin came shame, and man finally 
 got to a place where sin had wrought such havoc 
 with him! that he could not blush. God says so 
 in His Word. Read your Bibles and see. 
 
 After this, man will be judged for what he 
 did not do. To him that knoweth to do good 
 and doeth it not, to him it is sin. Knowledge 
 without action is simply good for nothing. Live 
 up to what you know, or it is so much the worse 
 for you. You might have repented and you did 
 not. You did not seek God, you did not mind 
 the Spirit, you did not improve the time, you did 
 not obey God, you did not pray, you did not do 
 good when you knew what good was ; and let me 
 say right here, the church of Jesus Christ will 
 be judged by the same rule. To the church that 
 knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to that 
 church it is sin. We preach to the world around 
 us and we ignore the truths we preach, forget- 
 ting, apparently, that as we measure out to oth- 
 ers it will be measured to us. We preach, "If 
 any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none 
 of His/' Please apply that to the church today. 
 
274 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 "If any church have not the Spirit of Christ it 
 is none of His." It works both ways. Every 
 coin has two sides to it, and every truth that we 
 preach we should preach to ourselves first. The 
 church must live the truth it professes; it must 
 back up the pulpit by a life. I am heartily in 
 sympathy with Mr. Spurgeon when he condemns 
 the relation of past sins with the gusto that some 
 folks have. Sin is awful, and no saint of God 
 can look upon the sins of the past with any 
 complacency. Let me give you Mr. Spurgeon's 
 exact words. You may not like them, but I do, 
 and if you do not, it is evidence you need them. 
 "I must confess that I am shocked with some 
 people I know who glibly rehearse their past 
 lives up to the time of their supposed conversion, 
 and talk of their sins, which they hope have been 
 forgiven them, with a smack of their lips as 
 though there was something fine in having been 
 such an offender. I hate to hear a man speak 
 of his experience in sin as a Greenwich pensioner 
 might talk of Trafalgar and the Nile. The best 
 thing to do with our past sins, if it be forgiven, 
 is to bury it. Yes, and let us bury it as they used 
 to bury suicides, let us drive a stake through it, 
 in horror and contempt, and never set up a mon- 
 umient to its memory. If you ever do tell any- 
 
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 thing of your youthful wrongdoing, let it be with 
 blushes and tears, with shame and confusion of 
 face, and always speak of it to the honor of the 
 infinite mercy which forgave you. Never let 
 the devil stand behind you and pat you on the 
 back and say, 'You did me a good turn in those 
 days.' Oh, it is a shameful thing to have sinned, 
 a degrading thing to have lived in sin, and it is 
 not to be wrapped up into a story telling and 
 told out as an exploit, as some do. The old man 
 is crucified with him who boasts of being related 
 to the crucified felon. If any member of your 
 family had been hanged, you would tremble to 
 hear janyone mention the gallows, you would 
 not run about and say, 'Do you know I had a 
 brother hanged at Newgate?' Your old man of 
 sin is hanged ; do not talk about him 1 , but thank 
 God it is so, and as He blots out the remembrance 
 of it, do you the same, except so far as it makes 
 you humble and grateful." I remember reading 
 once of a man in the Pacific Garden in Chicago, 
 who was in the habit of going over his past life 
 and telling folks how mean he had been, but one 
 night he came to the meeting and told the folks 
 he would never do so again, for he had read 
 in the Word where God said, "I will remember 
 them no more against you," "and," said he, "if 
 
276 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 God will not mention them, I will not." To him 
 that knoweth to do good to him it is sin. Let us 
 avoid sin in every particular. 
 
 After this, a life spent in sin, comes the Justice 
 of the Infinite God, and as sure as the Bible is 
 the Word of God, it means punishment for sin, 
 and as the sinner in eternity is always a sinner, 
 it means he is always punished: or, in other 
 words, it is a punishment that is eternal. Men 
 have been known to sneer at this doctrine, every- 
 where but on a death bed. There they have felt, 
 if conscious at all, it is an awful thing to fall 
 into the hands of the living God. Human opin- 
 ions and human feelings have no bearing on this 
 doctrine. Albert Barnes once wrote some truths 
 that are worth the consideration of every sane 
 person : "The Bible travels on from age to age, 
 bearing the same fearful doctrine, and is un- 
 changed in its warnings and appeals. Some of each 
 generation listen, are admonished, and saved. 
 The rest pass on and die. Human opinions do 
 not alter facts. Human opinion does not remove 
 death beds, and graves and sorrows, nor will it 
 remove and annihilate a world of woe. Facts 
 stand unchanged by the changes of human be- 
 lief, and fearful events roll on just as though 
 man had expected them. Nine-tenths of all the 
 
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 dead expected not to die at the time when in fact 
 they died, and more than half listen now to no 
 admonition that death will ever come. They 
 who have died had an expectation that they 
 would live many years. But death came. He 
 was not stayed by their belief or unbelief. He 
 came steadily on. Each day he took a stride 
 toward them, step by step he advanced, so that 
 they could not evade or retreat until he was near 
 enough to strike, and they fell. And so, though 
 the living will not hear, death comes to them. 
 And so the doom of the sinner rolls on. Each 
 day, each hour, each moment it draws nearer. 
 Whether he believes it or not it msakes no differ- 
 ence in the fact — it comes. It will not recede. 
 In spite of all attempts to reason, or to forget it, 
 the time comes, and at the appointed time the 
 sinner dies. Cavil and ridicule do not affect this. 
 There is no power in a joke to put away fevers 
 or convulsions and groans. The laugh and the 
 song close no grave, and put back none of the 
 sorrows of the second death. The dwellers in 
 Pompeii could not put back the fires of the vol- 
 cano by derision, nor would the mockery of the 
 inhabitants of Sodom have stayed the sheet of 
 flame that came from heaven. The scoffing sin- 
 ner dies and is lost just like others. The young 
 
278 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 man who has learned to cavil and deride religion 
 dies just like others. No cavil has yet changed 
 a fact, none has ever stayed the arrow of death." 
 God's Word is true, the comforting parts of it 
 are true, and the more terrible passages are 
 equally true. Man dies. God said this would 
 be his portion if he transgressed the command. 
 God appointed the time for man to die, and the 
 very same One has said, AFTER THIS, after 
 death there is a settling time, an award for the 
 deeds done in this life; there is a second death, 
 an eternal separation form God, and good folks 
 and angels, and heaven; and it means a lake of 
 fire, outer darkness, weeping and wailing and 
 gnashing of teeth; it means the company of the 
 damned in hell forever, whoremongers, de- 
 bauchees, lost spirits, angels who fell, the 
 beasts and false prophets, are one and yet never 
 one, for there is no unity in hell. As Dr. Munsey 
 says, "Hell is a world of ugly ruins shrouded 
 in night's blackest pall, where no one of the 
 damned has a friend, and filled with cursings and 
 strife, and where all ranks and sexes are herded 
 in one promiscuous mob with foulest demons, 
 and where every stinking cave is inhabited with 
 fiends and gnashing ghosts, and on whose black 
 crags the ravens of despair sit and croak, and 
 
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 where God's eternal justice plies His burning 
 whip and remorse lays on his fiery thongs, the 
 flashes of whips and thongs their only light — 
 world without end." 
 
 His thoughts troubled him. . . . (Dan. 5:6). 
 
 Why should a king be troubled? He was the 
 monarch of the mightiest kingdom in the earth. 
 He was surrounded by fawning courtiers, no- 
 bility, an army, and lived in a palace with a 
 treasury at his command. Lords and ladies wait- 
 ed on him. He lived in a city the walls of which 
 were one Hundred and fifty feet high. They 
 were so broad that four chariots could drive 
 abreast on their top, and yet this king was trou- 
 bled. He was strong, physically, in the prime of 
 life, hearty and well — but he was miuch troubled. 
 Same reason that you should be if you are not. 
 He was doing what you, sinner, are doing today, 
 he was trifling with sacred things. His father 
 had led an army to the Holy Land, sacked the 
 city, robbed the temple, brought the vessels ded- 
 icated to sacred uses back to the capitol city, 
 and now midst all the drunken revelry that went 
 with a Babylonian banquet, he commanded the 
 holy vessels to be brought out, and he was about 
 to drink from them when God showed His hand. 
 
 Did you ever stop to think that there is nothing 
 
280 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 really secular? 'All things are sacred, because 
 they have a relation to God and eternity. What- 
 soever we do we are to do it as unto the Lord. 
 There is nothing that is trifling. Apeles engaged 
 on a painting was very particular as to all the 
 details of his subject, and one asked him, "Why 
 do you pay so much attention to trifles?" and he 
 answered, "I am painting for eternity." We are 
 living for eternity. There are two classes of peo- 
 ple in this world — timests and eternalists; this 
 worldy, and the other worldly. When a cele- 
 brated sculptor was working on a statue, he paid 
 much attention to the hairs on the head, and some 
 bystander said, "No one will see them," and he 
 said, "Yes, the gods will see them." God sees 
 and knows and notes down all that we do and all 
 that we say, and all that we think, 'and wherever 
 we go and who we are with, and why we are 
 there; and in due time He will have something 
 to say, and something to do. With this king the 
 time was ripe for God to take part; many years 
 had rolled away, but He remembered and this 
 night He showed His hand. You remember that 
 we sing, "It was the hand of God on the wall," 
 and the poet was right. God wrote His verdict 
 on the wall, Thou art weighed in the balances 
 and found wanting. Weighed in God's balances. 
 
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 Did you ever think that like the messengers of 
 old to whom the king trusted the gold and silver, 
 that we, too, must "weigh in at Jerusalem?" It 
 will matter then very little what men have 
 thought and said about you, but it will be im- 
 miensely important what God thinks just then; 
 and please get the thought that I believe the 
 Holy Ghost wants you to have at this time, God 
 will always show His hand, and in the nearing 
 of death and eternity the sinner's thoughts will 
 always trouble him. 
 
 A few years ago man stood before the altar 
 to be wedded to a fair girl. to whom he pledged 
 faith and loyalty. For years they worked to- 
 gether to acquire a competency, but failed, and 
 were seventy thousand dollars worse off than 
 nothing. But again they faced the world with 
 new and other propositions, and fortune smiled 
 on them ; wealth flowed in, and the world was at 
 their feet. He had an office and business and 
 a private secretary, and she a woman, young and 
 beautiful. In process of tirme the wife was di- 
 vorced, and it follows she was brokenhearted, 
 for the money she received could not heal the 
 wounds that scarred her heart. The young and 
 fairer woman now became the wife before the 
 law, and with wealth at their command they went 
 
282 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 where they pleased, gratified every desire, feast- 
 ed their eyes, and all that allured, but soon the 
 former wife died, and now there came a face, 
 the face of the dead between the things the world 
 offered and this man, and his thoughts troubled 
 him. He went hither and thither, but he saw the 
 face, and carried his thoughts with him. There 
 came a time when God showed His hand, uttered 
 His thunders in this man's conscience, until one 
 day, to get rid of the thoughts that troubled him, 
 he committed suicide, went into eternity by his 
 own hand — and he is thinking yet. Man cannot 
 get rid of God. The Psalmist said, "If I take the 
 wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost 
 parts of the earth, there shall thy hand lead me 
 and thy right hand shall uphold me. If I make 
 my bed in hell thou art there/' 
 
 A manufacturer beginning business promised 
 God while on bended knees in prayer that if He 
 prospered him he would give Him one-tenth of 
 all that he made. The Lord heard and answered 
 him, and money flowed in until that man was giv- 
 ing God five thousand dollars a year, and then 
 the devil of greed whispered, "You are giving 
 too much. Where are there others who are giv- 
 ing as much as you?" And he listened and said 
 to himself, "I can put that in my business 
 and increase my capital." But God who heard 
 
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 his prayer heard him thinking, and saw him 
 acting out his thoughts, and one night that man 
 woke up and his room was all illuminated and 
 looking out of his window he saw that God was 
 withdrawing from the partnership — just show- 
 ing His hand, taking out His goods. Oh, do not 
 forget it! You can raise more cotton, you can 
 build more and larger barns, but as sure as you 
 are a foot high God will be reckoned with. He 
 will show His hand. You are making a record 
 for Divine inspection and you cannot blot it out. 
 Pilate wrote above the crucified Christ, "Jesus, 
 the King of the Jews," and the Jewish officers 
 came to him and complained, saying, "Write He 
 said 'I am King of the Jews/ " But Pilate an- 
 swered, "What I have written I have written/' 
 So it is with you, with all of us; our record is 
 indelible, and nothing but the blood of Jesus 
 Christ can ever cancel it. What we have written 
 we have written, and God sees it and will settle 
 with us. It is the yesterdays that trouble the 
 sinner, and the tomorrow Judgment Day. 
 
 What might have been troubles the sinner. To 
 him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, 
 to him it is sin. God said so in the past and says 
 so today. I did not make these facts; He made 
 them and you must face them. It might have 
 
284 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 been so different with all of us if we had only 
 minded God. The record might have been so 
 different. A Chicago doctor paid attention to 
 another woman than his wife, and led by his 
 lusts ran off to the Pacific Coast with her. His 
 wife went after him, asked him to come back and 
 live as a decent man and husband should do, and 
 she would forgive him. He came, and then, 
 womanlike, the wife paid the fare back to Chi- 
 cago of the woman who had been with him. In 
 a few years he was running with her again, and 
 the wife secured a divorce, the doctor then mar- 
 rying his former paramour. For fifteen years 
 they lived together in a Chicago home of wealth 
 and splendor, but one day a pistol shot was heard, 
 the wife ran into the parlor, and there on the 
 velvet carpet laid the doctor. The neighbors ran 
 in and found her wringing her hands and saying, 
 "Oh, he would not forget; he would think!" He 
 could not forget. God would not let him. The 
 past troubled him, his thoughts troubled him and 
 over yonder he is troubled yet. 
 
 Faces of the dead trouble some folks. A 
 thoughtless husband, fond of stag parties, often 
 went off and left his wife alone in the home. 
 But perhaps you do not know what a stag party 
 is. Well, you ought to know, and I will tell you. 
 
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 It is a party where there are no women, where 
 women are not wanted; and whenever you find 
 anything of that kind, there is some deviltry go- 
 ing on, generally. Men always need the refining 
 presence of the other sex. Place a lot of men 
 together away from home, and their morals de- 
 generate, and as a consequence of degenerated 
 morals there is conversation that is not fit for 
 print. Every old soldier knows this to be true. 
 There is more deviltry going on in the army 
 where there are all men, and results show it, 
 than society ever dreamed of. Put an army in 
 camp near a city and as a consequence the birth- 
 rate in that city increases. Statistics in the past 
 have proved it. This man went off on stag par- 
 ties so often that one time when he returned, 
 his wife said, "Oh, husband, I do wish you would 
 stay home some with me." And the brute said, 
 "What do you wlant? Haven't you got a good 
 home? If you want more money, say so, and 
 you can have it." He seemed not to know that 
 four square walls do not make a home. One time 
 he went off to the woods with one of his stag 
 parties, and while he was gone she was taken 
 sick, and it) a few days died. Wire could not 
 reach him. Mails could not, so when he came 
 back he looked on a face in a coffin, a face that 
 
286 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 was to haunt him in all the coming years. 
 Through with stag parties now, when it was too 
 late. Mourns now, stays home now, when it is 
 too late. Oh, no, Mr. Longfellow, you are 
 wrong; there is no "dead past" — the past is very 
 much alive until there is repentance and it goes 
 under the blood. 
 
 Faces of the dead? Yes, photographed by 
 memory in the indelible of eternity. A woman 
 was left with several children. The bread win- 
 ner was lying out in yonder graveyard, and she 
 determined she would keep them together, cost 
 what it might. You know that a woman will 
 keep the children together when a man can see 
 no way to do it. This mother kept them, trained 
 them, worked hard to educate them, saw them 
 all married and prospering. The eldest took her 
 home, just as he should have done; no man can 
 neglect his mother and have the blessing of the 
 God of the skies rest upon him, After some years 
 she was on her death bed. The children were all 
 there, lovingly watching and ministering to her, 
 "Mother, you have always been a good mother to 
 us." She turned her old gray head towards him, 
 looked him clear through and said, "John, you 
 never said so before" The poor old soul had 
 longed for some words of appreciation, but they 
 
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 had not come. True she had a good home, all 
 that money could buy, but she wanted to hear 
 something, some words that never came, till the 
 end was near. See that face? Yes. Troubled 
 by the memory? Oh, yes. Say, young man, go 
 to see your mother; write her a letter — say a 
 love letter — she is your best girl; tell her what 
 her heart longs to hear, and you will feel better. 
 Opportunities gone haunt the sinner, and they 
 come back only in the memory. Just to think, 
 the Man of Calvary, He of the nail-pierced hand, 
 has stood and knocked at the door of your heart. 
 He whom angels worshiped, who had all the 
 glories of heaven as His own, before He came 
 to this world, knocks, again and again at the 
 door of your heart, and says, "If any man will 
 hear my voice, and open unto me I will come in 
 and sup with him and he with Me." And yet 
 men bar Him out, keep him standing there with 
 the dews upon His head, but still pleading to 
 comie in, standing there until at last He goes 
 away, driven by neglect and coldness and wick- 
 edness, to return no more forever. A woman 
 missed her daughter one night, missed her for 
 six long years, sought her every place, until all 
 the money was gone, and heart still breaking. 
 One night she walked into a police station, saw 
 
288 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 the chief, told him the story, and the police offi- 
 cer guessed the rest — and guessed correctly. He 
 said to her, "Go home and bring me your photo- 
 graph and I will see what I can do." A few 
 hours more and she was there handing a photo 
 to the chief, who looking at it said, "This is not 
 you." And she replied with choking voice, "That 
 is my picture as I was when she went away. If 
 I was to give you my picture as I am now, she 
 would not know it." The chief took the picture 
 down to the red-light district, saw the proprietor 
 of a dance hall where the women of the town 
 were in the habit of going, and told him to hang 
 the picture up on one of the pillars of the room. 
 He did so and it hung there several months. 
 One night he came into the hall about twelve 
 o'clock at night and saw a number of the girls 
 looking down on the floor. He went to them and 
 said, "What is the matter?" And the reply was, 
 "Nellie has fainted." "What made her faint?" 
 "Why, she saw that picture." The man gathered 
 her up in his arms, took her down to his auto, 
 and started with her somewhere, when the cool 
 air restored her to consciousness and she asked, 
 "Where are you taking me?" "I am taking you 
 to your mother. Be still — I know the whole 
 story. Your mother is waiting for >;ou." They 
 
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 reached the home, the mother was waiting, and 
 soon she was back again in the arms of a mother 
 whose love had never once failed. The sight of 
 that mother's face won her back to love and 
 home. But oh, the grief of it! Nineteen centu- 
 ries ago the God of the universe so loved that 
 He allowed His own Son to hang on that middle 
 cross for six mortal hours, nailed there by your 
 sins and mine, and yet men today, sinners, are 
 trampling the blood of Jesus under their feet, 
 are counting it a common thing. Calvary is in 
 the world's vision today, but men see it not, pass 
 it by. God commended His love, but man today 
 ignores the Christ, and goes on to sin and death. 
 Remembered sins haunt the sinner. Like Ban- 
 quo's ghost, they will not down. A few years 
 ago a murder was committed at Blue Island. A 
 man who once boarded with an old resident and 
 his granddaughter who kept house for him, after 
 a year's absence camie back and asked again for 
 the privilege of boarding with them. The old 
 man said, "Just as daughter says." She replied, 
 "He can have his old room." So he took posses- 
 sion. In the course of time he ascertained the 
 old man had some money, which he kept in the 
 mattress on his bed. One night the boarder came 
 downstairs in his stocking feet, went out into 
 
2 9 o THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 the woodshed, got the ax, entered the room, 
 smashed in the head of the man, then killed the 
 granddaughter, and was putting his hand under 
 the mattress to take the money when a dog 
 barked, and thinking the neighbors were 
 aroused, he left hastily and without the money. 
 For a year he went over the West, working here 
 and there, until one day he walked into the po- 
 lice station* at Chicago and accosting the desk 
 sergeant he said, "I want to give myself up." 
 "What for?" asked the officer. "For murder," 
 said the culprit. "Where?" was the next ques- 
 tion. "At Blue Island, one year ago I murdered 
 an old man and his granddaughter." "What 
 brought you back?" "I will tell you. When I 
 took the old man's life I was after the money 
 he had in his mattress. I reached my hand out 
 to take it when I heard a dog bark. I left, think- 
 ing the neighbors were aroused, and went West, 
 but no matter where I went I could hear that 
 dog bark. I would lie down at night and wake 
 up startled by the barking of the dog. I have 
 come back to get rid of that dog's bark." Every 
 sinner has a dog on his track. Memory will 
 haunt him ; aye, he has a pack of hounds on his 
 track; memory and conscience will never cease 
 
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 to bark, and only by repentance towards God can 
 an evil conscience be purged. 
 
 There will come to every sinner to trouble him 
 the miemory of opportunities that he murdered. 
 Off the coast of Scotland there was a bell buoy, 
 placed there by the government of Great Britain 
 to warn the sailor in times of fog. One day a 
 young man in a sheer spirit of recklessness de- 
 stroyed the bell buoy and the government never 
 replaced it. The young man became a sailor; 
 after a while was a captain and sailing his vessel 
 off the coast of Scotland he was caught in a dense 
 fog, and his vessel wrecked ; his life was lost and 
 some rescued sailors said that he kept crying, 
 "Oh, for the bell buoy," but he had destroyed it 
 years before. 
 
 Many a sinner when the cold hand of death 
 comes feeling round his heartstrings will cry 
 for the sermon he once sneered at, will long for 
 an altar call and a mourners' bench, and the 
 prayers of the saints, but they will never come 
 back. 
 
 A coming judgment haunts the sinner, trou- 
 bles the sinner. It is not death that men fear. 
 It is what comes after death. Man will meet all 
 his sinful record at the judgment. "Know thou, 
 that for all these t Jungs God will bring thee to 
 
292 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 judgment/' And the Christ that men reject to- 
 day will be the Judge. The person you do not 
 want to see is not the person that injured you, 
 but the one you have injured. And the sinner 
 has injured Jesus, insulted Him, turned Him 
 away. Did you ever read Whittier's "Skipper 
 Ireton?" He tells of the Skipper of a fishing 
 vessel that went out at the beginning of the sea- 
 son to fish. The skipper getting the first catch 
 of fish and first back to Marblehead % would get 
 the highest prices. Ireton secured his haul of fish 
 and was on the way back when he saw a fishing 
 vessel wrecked, and the crew in the water. As he 
 drew near they begged him to take them on, but 
 he, intent on the gold, passed therm by, leaving 
 them to die. His crew told the story, and the wom- 
 en of Marblehead, widows of the sailors he passed 
 bv, tarred and feathered him, rode him on a rail, 
 but Whittier makes Ireton to say, "It is not the 
 reproach of the tar and feathers, nor the riding 
 on the rail that stings me, but I see the faces of 
 the men I left to drown, the white hands uplifted. 
 the dying cry for help." So the sinner all 
 through the ages of eternity will see the face of 
 the mother who prayed, the wife who wept, the 
 children who fasted, that he might be saved. 
 He will think of the Christ who died for him, and 
 
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 his thoughts will trouble him, and never, never 
 will there come a time when he will cease to 
 think, to regret, to curse himself and his own 
 folly. 
 
 But now listen while I tell you that you can 
 get rid of all the sins of the past. Though your 
 sins be as scarlet they shall be whiter than snow ; 
 though they be crimson yet shall they be as wool. 
 He is able to save to the uttermiost all them that 
 come, and He says, "Him that cometh I will in 
 nowise cast out." Make Jesus your Friend, make 
 Him your Advocate. Let your Elder Brother 
 plead your case. Mr. Moody was one time hold- 
 ing a meeting that was so largely attended the 
 authorities forbade any more being allowed in 
 the building. An usher was stationed at the 
 door to keep folks out. A lady of the town got 
 out of her carriage, walked up to the door as 
 though all she had to do was to ask and she 
 would be admitted, but the usher kindly told her 
 
 there was no room for her. But I am Mrs. . 
 
 No difference; Mrs. could not get in; the 
 
 orders were to be obeyed. The Representative 
 in Congress of that District walked up and said, 
 
 "I am M5r. , of this District, arid being in 
 
 the city a few days I thought I would like to hear 
 Mr. Moody," and he presented his card; but it 
 
294 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 was no use — no one admitted. Then came the 
 Mayor of the City, and he was sure of admit- 
 tance; he told who he was, but no, sir, he, too, 
 was denied. Just then came a seedy-looking man 
 up to the usher and he said, "I want to get in 
 and hear Mr. Moody/' and he was told it was 
 too late; the building was crowded and no more 
 were to be admitted. But he said, "Yes, I will 
 see him; tell Mr. Moody his brother George is 
 at the door. ,, The usher walked up the aisle, told 
 Mr. Moody, who said, "My brother George at 
 the door? Let him in!' And he came in. Mr. 
 Moody had just left his own chair to begin his 
 sermon, and he told George to sit down on his 
 chair. So it will be with you if you make Jesus 
 your Elder Brother. I expect that each saint will 
 have the enemy to object to his entrance to the 
 City of God, into the temple of God, but I am 
 sure the Word teaches that He will say, "Come, 
 ye blessed of my Father/' and He will rise from 
 His throne and tell them to sit down, for even 
 as He overcame so have they overcome through 
 His blood and the Word of their testimony, and 
 shall sit down with Him on His throne. 
 
 Old John Burns was the citizen hero of Get- 
 tysburg. When the battle was on the Confed- 
 erates having invaded Pennsylvania, he took his 
 
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 old squirrel rifle and went out on the firing line 
 and pumped lead into the ranks of the enemy un- 
 til he was wounded. The press of the North 
 lauded the old hero to the skies, called him all 
 the good names they could think of. Abraham 
 Lincoln, the President, heard of Burns and his 
 deed, and sat down and wrote, "Mr. Burns, Get- 
 tysburg, Pa., Dear sir : I have heard of your con- 
 duct at Gettysburg, and I write to assure you I 
 would be very glad to welcome you to Washing- 
 ton, and in the White House anytime you may 
 be pleased to come. Yours, A. Lincoln. ,, You 
 may be sure John Burns was pleased to go. He 
 got out his best bib and tucker, his old Prince 
 Albert coat, brushed up his old silk hat, and 
 went to Washington. The usher at the White 
 House door met him and asked his name. "I am 
 John Burns, of Gettysburg." "Welcome, sir; we 
 are expecting you." He went in, met Mr. Lin- 
 coln, who made him feel at home, and took him 
 to church the next day. As they walked up the 
 aisle they were the observed of all observers. The 
 obsequious usher bowed Mr. Lincoln into the 
 pew, but when old John Burns attempted to fol- 
 low, the usher said, "No, no, old man ; you cannot 
 go in there." But Mr. Lincoln reached out his 
 long arm and said, "He is my old man; let him 
 
296 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 in." And in he went. So I am believing the 
 enemy who is an accuser of all the brethren, of 
 every child of God, will follow clear to the gates 
 of the City, he will accuse of all the sins that 
 ever were committed, all the mistakes that ever 
 were made, will say, "He belongs to me; he has 
 no right in there." But the Christ of Calvary 
 who died to save, and who heard you down at 
 that mourners' bench, will say, "He is Mine. Let 
 him in" And then with all the blood-washed 
 saved to all eternity, you will go in to go out no 
 more forever, and with the saints of all ages you 
 will be "transported your Lord and your Savior 
 to greet." Thank God for Jesus, thank God for 
 the Blood, thank God for the Holy Spirit, thank 
 God for the Word, which is the power of God 
 unto salvation to everyone that believeth. Praise 
 His Name Forever! 
 
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 XVI 
 THREE WONDERFUL DAYS 
 
 "Day of Salvation" (2 Cor. 6:2). "Day of Re- 
 demption" (Eph. 4:30). "Day of Judgment" (2 
 Peter 2:9). 
 
 The day of salvation is not a period of twenty- 
 four hours ; it is not to be measured by time, for 
 it began in a timeless eternity, before time began. 
 It dates from that period when in the council 
 chambers of the Godhead there came one who 
 said, "Lo, I came to do thy will, O God; a body 
 hast Thou prepared me." Before man fell, God 
 knew he would fall and made provision for his 
 salvation. Before the morning stars sang to- 
 gether, or even an angel's wing had fanned the 
 viewless ether, He had a plan for the deliverance 
 of a lost race. Angels desired to look into it, 
 but could not comprehend the love that provided 
 it. The old poet was right when he said, "the 
 first archangel never saw so much of God be- 
 fore." Angels could not save, none but God 
 could devise a plan that would meet the need. As 
 
298 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 the Englishman wrote, "He who best the van- 
 tage might have taken, found out the remedy." 
 The Son of God, the Fellow of Jehovah, the Sec- 
 ond Person in the Trinity, took upon Himself 
 our nature, stooped down to our low estate that 
 we might be redeemed. 
 
 This salvation is a salvation from sin; not 
 primarily from hell, but from sin. I once saw 
 a minister in my audience, and out of courtesy 
 I asked him to come on the platform and lead 
 in prayer. His whole prayer was that God would 
 save people from hell, and all the time that he 
 was praying I was revolting against it, because 
 I do not believe that Jesus died to save men from 
 hell — but from the sin that sends them to hell. 
 When we talk about sin, we are talking about 
 something that all know about, for all have 
 sinned, and the glad tidings of salvation declare 
 a Savior who came to save from sin in this life 
 here and now. I want to go even farther than 
 that and say on the authority of the Word, man 
 must quit sinning, go out of the sinning business 
 altogether, before God will save him, for sin is 
 the only thing that God hates. It crucified the 
 Son of God, it robs heaven, populates hell, fills 
 prisons, and dance halls, and theaters, and houses 
 of lust, and dishonors the Holy Ghost and the 
 
WORDS THAT BURN 299 
 
 Word. Sin separated the first man from God, 
 and it is the only thing that will or can. Listen 
 to the Word: "Your sins have separated you 
 from Me." 
 
 Sin burdens the conscience. Some few years 
 ago the Treasurer of the United States received 
 a letter from a conscience-stricken man who had 
 been a quartermaster during the Civil War, and 
 it read something like this : "During the late war 
 I was a quartermaster and I robbed the Govern- 
 ment of three thousand dollars. It has been 
 such a burden in my conscience ever since that 
 I herein restore the principal and interest to 
 date." Along with this in the Treasury is one 
 that reads. "Please find enclosed five cents. I used 
 as postage a two-cent stamp that had formerly 
 done service. I want to get right with God,, and 
 this has bothered me ever since I committed the 
 sin." It is not the amount, it is the sin. Con- 
 science never sleeps. A boy one time went up to 
 a baker's wagon and stole some cookies there- 
 from, and twenty years after that boy wrote a 
 letter acknowledging the sin, and paid for the 
 cookies. I was preaching in Troy, Ohio, and a 
 young man came to me and said, "You only got 
 me in one thing. I have to pay fpr some water- 
 melons I stole sometime ago/' Folks laugh at 
 
300 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 that as though stealing melons was a joke; but 
 theft will send a soul to hell, whether it is a wa- 
 termelon or a bank. Sin is sin, and must be re- 
 pented of. There was a young girl who worked 
 in a food factory as clerk. She stole money time 
 and again and placed it away. After a while she 
 became alarmed and altered her books, and then, 
 fearing the books would be examined, she went 
 down to the office and set fire to the desk, intend- 
 ing to destroy the books, which she did, and the 
 office and the factory. In a few years she was 
 married to an estimable young man and she sur- 
 prised him with the prodigality with which she 
 spent money and purchased furniture and a pi- 
 ano. He said to her, "Why, where did you get 
 all this money/' And she replied, "I worked for 
 it, was saving, and had it in the bank." One 
 month there was a revival came to that town, 
 right down from heaven. It had been prayed 
 down, and that kind of a revival always uncovers 
 sin, and alarms the conscience of the wrong- 
 doer. This young wife got under awful convic- 
 tion, and one day when her husband came home 
 she said, "I have a confession to make to you, 
 husband. I stole all the money with which I 
 bought the furniture." He stood aghast, looked 
 at her in amazement, and then she said, "That is 
 
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 not all. You remember the fire in the city that 
 destroyed the factory? Well, I went down to 
 the factory one evening, fearing the thefts would 
 be discovered, and I set fire to the bopks, but the 
 fire spread and the factory was burned down. 
 The papers said it was an incendiary fire, but I 
 did it, I did it! Oh, what shall I do? What shall 
 I do?" Let me tell you what they did. They 
 went to the Directors of the Company, and that 
 young husband said, "My wife has a confession 
 to make." She made it and when she was through 
 he said to them, "You can have all the furniture, 
 all the paintings, all the money we have. 
 We will do all we can to right the wrong she did ; 
 she must get right with God," Oh, how sin bur- 
 dened that woman's conscience. Oh, the blast- 
 ing, blighting, burning influence of sin. I know 
 a man who one day stole a broadax, and while 
 he was seeking pardon God never said one word 
 about that ax, but in the near future after he 
 heard from heaven, God spoke to him one day 
 and said, "Son, you must take back that broadax 
 you stole." And he said, "I will, tonight, Lord." 
 But God said, "Take it back in daylight." And 
 he did. I knew a boy about ten years of age who 
 came to me in one of my meetings and he said, 
 "I have just got one thing more to do." I asked 
 
302 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 what it was and was told that one day he saw 
 a man pulling some things out of his pocket, pull 
 out also a penknife, which he dropped unknow- 
 ingly on the ground, and then walked off and 
 left it lying on the ground. This lad picked it 
 up and kept it, but said he, "I must take it back 
 and tell him." And he did and was a satisfied 
 boy after that. In that same meeting a young 
 woman came to me and said, "I want some ad- 
 vice; I am keeping company with a young man 
 who is not a Christian, and I guess I must give 
 him up." I told her that was right. God was 
 not pleased with it. Then she said, "I have a 
 date with him to bring me to church tonight." 
 I said come with your mother; let him go; he 
 will not bother you when you let him know yot» 
 are going with God. How faithful the Holy 
 Ghost is all the time and everywhere. At Sulli- 
 van, Ind., a young man walked into a grocery 
 store and said to the grocer, "Since that fellow 
 has been preaching in this meeting my girl won't 
 look at me." The Spirit had been applying the 
 truth to the girl's heart, and she was minding 
 God. Thank His holy name, this salvation, the 
 real thing, will get a man where he will not only 
 not sin, but where he will not want to sin — the 
 want to will all be taken out. And God does it 
 
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 every time when you are willing He should. 
 Faithful is He who calleth you, who also will 
 do it. 
 
 Let me now call your attention to this second 
 text — The Day of Redemption. This is a day 
 the sinner will never see. Redemption is salva- 
 tion completed. It is deliverance from all the in- 
 firmities of the body, from all the ills that flesh 
 is heir to. The Israelites will tell you that from 
 the time that Jacob wrestled with the angel, he 
 limped all the rest of his days. But when the 
 resurrection morning comes, and that body is re- 
 stored, Jacob will not have his limp any longer. 
 We may suffer in these bodies of ours clear down 
 to the grave, and live to please God, too, but 
 there our sufferings will all end. Trials, tempta- 
 tions, conflict, suffering, will all be a thing of 
 the past. I confess I think a great deal of this 
 body of mine. In it I marched many a weary 
 mile, carrying a Springfield rifle and tramping 
 through the red clay of old Virginia. In this 
 body I one day met Jesus Christ, and heard Him 
 say, "Thy sins which are many are all forgiven 
 thee." In this body, which is a temple of the 
 Holy Ghost, I have had many precious times. 
 Yes, I expect in this very same body, only glori- 
 fied, to see my Lord. I have no sympathy with 
 
30 4 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 that hymn that is sometimes sung, in ecstacy by 
 some folks, "I don't care where you bury me, 
 my sins are pardoned, I am free." I do care. 
 If Jesus does not come for me, and I should go 
 the way that Jesus went, down through the 
 grave, place this old body away very carefully, 
 for as sure as Jesus rose from the grave, I have 
 the promise, "They that sleep in Jesus will God 
 bring with Him," and one day the clods shall 
 fly above my grave and I shall get up in this 
 same body and meet my Lord in the air. That 
 will be a wonderful day to the saints. One day 
 a pastor was in the poor house visiting an old 
 saint who was on her death bed,, and she was 
 smiling, so he asked her, "Why are you smil- 
 ing?" and she said, "I was thinking what a 
 change it will be for me, from the almshouse to 
 
 gl°ry" 
 
 "Oh, what a wondrous change shall Jesus* suf- 
 ferers know, 
 
 As o'er the fields of bliss they range, incapable 
 of woe" 
 
 Think of it! From trial to triumph^ from the 
 cross to the crown. Paul tells us that the saints 
 in glory are longing for the time when they shall 
 be restored to their bodies, shall have them again. 
 
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 That reminds me that a lieutenant down on the 
 Peninsula lost his good right arm. When he 
 came out from under the influence of the anaes- 
 thetic he said to the surgeon, "Where is my right 
 arm?" And they told him out in the ditch. 
 "Bring it to me; I want to see it once more. ,, 
 When they brought it in he grasped it with his 
 left hand and said, "Goodbye, old armi ; you will 
 never swing another saber, nor pull on another 
 bridle, but goodbye till the morning of the first 
 resurrection, and then I'll see you again. ,, Do 
 you believe that? Have you a faith like that? 
 If not, then you are three thousand years behind 
 the times, for old Job said as he lay there in his 
 affliction, "I know that my Redeemer liveth and 
 that he shall stand at the latter day upon the 
 earth, and though after the skin the worms shall 
 destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see 
 God." Piety day; then thou shalt be recom- 
 pensed at the resurrection of the just. That day 
 of redemption is a day the sinner shall never see. 
 With him the worst is yet to come. Whatsoever 
 a man soweth that shall he also reap. Evil men 
 and seducers shall wax worse and worse. 
 
 This leads us to the third text— The Day of 
 Judgment. A day that is big with destiny. I 
 saw a picture once — let me describe it to you. 
 
306 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 A court room, twelve empty chairs; in these 
 the jury had sat ; a lone man on the bench wait- 
 ing; a prisoner in the box, thoughtful and pensive, 
 leaning his head on his hand; nearby sat a 
 woman, the wife of the prisoner, with several 
 little children standing by, and a babe on her lap. 
 The title of the picture was, "Waiting for the 
 Verdict." He did not know what it would be, 
 but every sinner dying in his sins knows what 
 the verdict will be. The soul that sinneth it shall 
 die. Sentence against an evil work is only de- 
 layed, but each and every evil doer knows God 
 is just. Too late at that day to remedy mistakes, 
 to undo wrongs. Carlyle, the old Scotch writer 
 and philosopher, was indeed a very gifted man; 
 a man of genius, a vigorous writer and author. 
 He had a wife who would have shone in any 
 circle, but his wife was overshadowed by his 
 gigantic qualities. He kept her in the shade, and 
 she was little appreciated by him or his friends. 
 The time came when she died, and then he knew 
 what she was. He said one day, "I have lived 
 thirty years with an angel, and did not know it." 
 He loaded up with flowers from the hothouse 
 one day and went out to her grave (some men 
 never give their wives any flowers till after they 
 are dead), and as he dropped them one by one 
 
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 on her grave, he said, "Oh, Jean, Jean, if I only 
 had known." But it is too late now, and regrets 
 never undo the past, nor do they bring back op- 
 portunities. You know that the most of folks 
 have their little spats when they are first mar- 
 ried — I mean after the glamor has worn off. 
 So did a young couple of whom I have heard. 
 The wife followed him to the door as he was 
 going to work and said to him, "Goodbye, John." 
 But he went right on as though he had not heard. 
 Raising her voice she again said "Goodbye, 
 John " But the brute went right on. Calling 
 after him as he was nearly passing out of sight, 
 she repeated, "I said Goodbye, John." And there 
 was no reply. How he did wish as they brought 
 him home shortly before noon that he had said 
 goodbye, just once; but now it was too late — 
 the little cottage was burned to the ground and 
 she was in the ashes. Regrets avail nothing. 
 So it will be at the Judgment Day. We may 
 long to undo the past, we may pray, but pray- 
 ing time has gone forever. As a man has sowed 
 so shall he reap. He who has said, "Go thy 
 way," will hear, "Depart from me." He who 
 said, "Have me excused," will find he is excused 
 and excused forever. As a man sows so shall 
 he reap. Destiny is fixed forever, and fixed by 
 
308 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 a man's own actions. Here we make character, 
 and what God inspects there is character. We 
 must leave houses and lands and reputation be- 
 hind us, but we take character with us, and it 
 is the only thing that we can take. Probation 
 ends forever; the last opportunity is gone, and 
 gone forever. When James Pollock was Gov- 
 ernor of Pennsylvania a number of years ago, 
 the pardoning power was entirely in the hands 
 of the Governor, not with a commission, as it is 
 now. There was a man who was condemned to 
 die, and the last Friday was near at hand. Gov- 
 ernor Pollock was a Christian man and much 
 interested in the spiritual condition of the crim- 
 inal. One day he went to the Warden of the 
 penitentiary and told him he would like to see 
 the man soon to die, saying at the same time, 
 "Do not tell him who I am; just put me in the 
 cell with him." The Warden called the turnkey, 
 gave him his instructions, and the Governor was 
 ushered into the cell. When the prisoner saw 
 him he said, "Who are you?" "I came to pray 
 with you," said the Governor. "Well, you can 
 get out of here. When I want any snivelling 
 Harrisburg parsons to pray with me, I will send 
 for them." "But, man, you are to die next Fri- 
 day, and I am interested in your soul. I would 
 
WORDS THAT BURN 309 
 
 like to pray for you." "Get out, I told you. 
 Hallo, turnkey! Come take this preacher out of 
 here." The turnkey came, and Mr. Pollock left 
 without the opportunity to pray with the pris- 
 oner. A few days after the turnkey said to the 
 prisoner, "Do you know who that man was that 
 wanted to pray for you?" "No, I do not. I 
 suppose it was some preacher from the city." 
 "No," said the turnkey; "it was Governor Pol- 
 lock." "Governor Pollock? Why did you not 
 tell me? I would have fallen on my bended 
 knees to him. I would have begged him for a 
 pardon. I would have told him of my wife and lit- 
 tle ones. I would have told him that there were 
 extenuating circumstances, that I was not wholly 
 to blame." But the opportunity had gone. If 
 that man had prayed, if he had truly repented, 
 who knows but the Governor might have been 
 moved to pardon him. But too late, too late. 
 Here we may have pardon, here we may pray, 
 here God is always present, here are promises 
 that encourage, here are praying friends, and the 
 very heavens are bending as God inclines Him- 
 self to hear the sinner pray ; but in that great day 
 praying breath is spent in vain. Do you know, 
 have you learned it from God's Word, that the 
 men of today are the worst sinners the world 
 
310 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 ever saw, or the heavens ever looked upon ? Not 
 Scriptural ? Listen to this : " Woe unto you, Ca- 
 pernaum, woe unto you, Bethesda. It shall be 
 more tolerable in the day of Judgment for Tyre 
 and Sidon than for thee." Why? Because they 
 have sinned against greater light. Hear the 
 Master, He who spake as never man spake, He 
 to whom was given the tongue of the learned. 
 "The people of Nineveh shall rise in judgment 
 and condemn this generation, for they repented 
 at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, a greater 
 than Jonah is here." We are living in the best 
 age the world has ever seen, the Dispensation 
 of the Holy Ghost. He is doing^ His best to win 
 men for God and righteousness, and men are do- 
 ing their utmost to resist Him. I do really be- 
 lieve that the very devils in hell will be astonished 
 because you are lost. You for whom the Son 
 of God died; you to whom all heaven appealed; 
 you for whom a mother prayed, with whom the 
 Spirit of God pled and strove. Some years 
 ago a man of wealth was the president of a Na- 
 tional Bank in Chicago. He owned coal lands 
 in southern Indiana, was part owner of stone 
 quarrys, and spent much money to open up a 
 railroad to the mines. One venture he used the 
 bank to advance his own private schemes, vio- 
 
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 lated the law of the nation, and the Government 
 officials were on his track at once. He was ar- 
 rested, tried, and though defended by counsel of 
 ability and talent, he was found guilty. The case 
 was appealed to the Supreme Court and after 
 one year, during which he restored some mil- 
 lions of dollars, the Supreme Court affirmed the 
 decision of the lower court, and the wires from 
 Washington flashed the news to Chicago that 
 he must go to Leavenworth. The detective at 
 once was by his side; he bade goodbye to wife 
 and children, took the train on the Rock Island, 
 and went to the Federal Prison at Leavenworth. 
 The guards on the walls knew he was coming, 
 the prisoners in the prison knew, somehow or 
 other, that he was coming. And when he was 
 given his number and suit, they whispered to 
 
 each other is here. The man who had 
 
 his millions, the man who was president of 
 
 , the man who moved in the highest circles 
 
 of society. If we had his chances we never 
 would have been found here; we had no high- 
 priced lawyer, we had no friends to appeal our 
 case, or we would not have entered this place 
 of woe. So in hell, when you shall be lost, the 
 very demons will hiss with astonishment that 
 you of all men should be eternally lost. Hear 
 
312 THE DEPARTED LORD, or, 
 
 them as they taunt the lost soul. "For us no 
 Savior died, no Holy Spirit ever strove with us, 
 no Gospel of salvation for us. To us no ministers 
 ever came, talking of hope. When we fell, we 
 fell forever. But you — you trampled the blood 
 of the Son of God under your feet; you came to 
 the torments of the damned over the crucified 
 body of the Christ of Calvary. You invited 
 ^our own damnation; you paved your own way 
 to this hell home of the forever lost." Is it not 
 so that today men are running against the shields 
 of the Almighty? They insult the Holy Ghost, 
 they invite the wrath of God. Hear the Word, 
 "Hell from beneath is moved to meet thee at 
 thy coming." The wrath of God is revealed from 
 heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteous- 
 ness of men who hold the truth in urighteous- 
 ess. Men today are sinning against light, 
 against the examples of godly living in their own 
 homes, against their own consciences. The Word 
 cries, "Prepare to meet thy God," and they make 
 no preparation. The Son of God says, "Be ye 
 also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not 
 the Son of Man cometh." And there are few 
 getting ready. Men are in love with sin — sin, 
 the thing that God hates — they are crucifying 
 the Son of God afresh and putting Him to an 
 
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 open shame, and yet he cries, "How shall I give 
 him up?" Oh, men and women for whom Christ 
 Jied, yield yourself to God before it shall be 
 eternally too late, and thou shalt take up the cry, 
 "The harvest is passed, the summer is ended and 
 I am not saved" And to be not saved is to be 
 eternally lost! 
 
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