Charles Finney writes: “I once labored in a village in New York where Universalism prevailed. The leading man among them had a sick wife who sympathized with his views. I called to see her, and endeavored to expose the fallacy of her delusion. After I left, her husband returned, and his wife, her eyes being now opened, cried out to him, ‘O my dear husband, you are in the way to hell—your Universalism will ruin your soul forever!’ He was greatly enraged, and, learning that I had been talking with her, his rage was kindled against me. ‘Where is he now?’ ‘Gone to the meeting,’ was the reply. ‘I’ll shoot him,’ he cried; and seizing his loaded pistol, he started off. When he came in I was preaching from the text, ‘Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?’ He listened awhile, and then, all at once, in the midst of the meeting, he fell back on his seat, and cried out, ‘O I am sinking to hell! God, have mercy on me.’ And of course He did.
Today’s Reading: Psalms 31-33 Memorize: Mark 8:36-37