THE GOSPEL TRUMPET.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 222036, 13 January 1900, Page 3

THE GOSPEL TRUMPET.

“Heaven (Mark xvi.) or Hell.” Tins is a solemn text and should awake all anxiety, reaching the deepest conscience. There is no poetry about it, no argument, but a plain statement of two great eternal facts. It is one, too, of the last statements of the Lord Jesus bsfosa ascending to His Father. It is saved and the lost—believers or unbelievers, who are on the right or the wrong side of eternity. To believe is to accept Christ —the Christ- of God —God’s appointed Saviour for a.perishing world. and is baptized * shall /, but he that believeth not shall he damned . Or, he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, he that believeth not the Son shall not see i the wrath of God abideth on Sin is defiling. Sin needs atonement. Sin must be wiped out or we can neither see nor enjoy God. Sin has defiled this, fair earth, but God will not suffer Heaven to be so polluted. Yet though our sins be as scarlet they can be made as white as wool. I will Mot out all their iniquities is the Divine assurance. Sin has made its terrible mark upon our bodies that shall never be effaced, either in time or in eternity ; but in Heaven though defiled in bodies we shall be pure in soul, for holy is the Lord God Almighty and holy will those be who stand around and dwell with Him. Sin dwell in HeaveD, for it is the splfre of holiness, rest, purity the homo of the redeemed who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb (Rev. 4U. 14). In Heaven there will be work — service and adoration— but there will be no sin. Ilei'e we often have blistered .hands, aching heads, weak backs, weary legs, and strength exhausted. -But in Heaven Itee will be no fatigue, no drudgery, Bleating, nor slavery. All will be perfect rest and huly security. No trouble there, no tears, no pangs, .no heartaches, no disappointments. - Sorrow and crying shall have passed; Joy and peace will dwell for ever.

dHflfcckness nor death shall enter Heaven. Every week 10 pass away in Auckland, 1000 in New York, 2000 in London, and =IOO,OOO die in India every year. In Heaven there will be no darkness; the Lord God givoth them light and the Lamb is the lamp thereof. He grief at aU, no sickness, no death whatever! Oh, exquisite rest! Oh, glorious condition! And if -he very thought, be so enchanting, ‘what must it be to be there!’ And all accomplished and provided by Jesus Christ; dontinuous enjoymentthronghout eternity. And all free, without ’ xuoney or price—simply offered for our acceptance by faith. ‘He that beand is baptized shall be saved, BPBPhio that believeth not shall be tdamned.’ 1 1 am the resurrection and ■ the life, ho that believeth on Me W though he were dead yet shall he ” livo; and he that loveth and believe, h on Me shall never die.’ Well, this is one side of the picture, and it is a glorious poi-traiiure. The other side is rather dismal and revolting—savours of Hell. Yet there are but two worlds —believers in the one and unbelievers in the other. There is no compromise of destiny, it must be one or the other. Just as certain as jNpb writing to-night for your perusal to-morrow — IT IS LIFE ETERNAL OR EVERLASTING TORMENT. _ _ > ' l But who are they that find themv Hell ? Cain’s world, Sodom anoGomorrah, Babylon, Laodicea, religious professors—Those who have pNfeno to live yet are dead. False apostles, apostates, hypocrites. The slum of earth too will empty their freight in Hell. All the vile of earth from the creation of the world. The 'Sihiest, blasphemers, all liars, whoremongers, drunkards the ungodly. Hell will form the prison-house of the ® universe. There they riot, and foam and fight and blaspheme unhindered. f Oh ! the wailing, rai'ing, and gnashing oft h that will there take place. Think of it—east out from glorified kindred and friends, and in such company too! And that

r EVER, FOR EVER, FOR EVER Jtmn on the one side, father, mother, sisters, brothers, friends, on the other, ■while between. you there is a great gulf fixed —God Himself has spoken it. Let men think or say what they

pi ease, tut fire is torture, pain infinifce'suffering. I don’t say mental or bodily, or both, I am not discussing point,' but ’twill be unmitigated tortu © —everlasting burnings—or the English language has no meaning. Oh! ihe remorse of one who has had 1000 opportunities of being saved, yet knows and feels that he is lost, lost for ever. Oh! the weariness of one ten in anguish, wailing and desp3fi|i’ n( l y et to know that tim© has tSW ! 1 Isn’t most gone ! Isn’t it nearly ended ! When will this tortui’e cease ! ’ The light--gninp- flash reveals the writing on the -' wall of the prison house FOR EVER, FOR EVER, FOR EVER. ‘ The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from Heaven with mighty angels in fire, taking vengenco on them know not God, and have not obeyed the Gospel.’ Not I, but God says it, I am but quoting His Word, and.l will now call upon you to wit- _/ ness that I have tried, but feebly, to both sides of the picture,

and to ask which will you select as your destiny ? If you are lost ’twill not be my fault nor God,s, but your own. PARDON AND HEAVEN ARE OFFERED FREELY. ‘ Whosoever will let him take of the Water of Life freely.’ This Water of Life is Jesus, He who died that you might live, who bore our sins in His own body on the tree, so that now, he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but ho that believeth not shall be damned. Truth.