How to Hear The Gospel

Rowland Hill paid a visit to an old friend a few years before his death, who said to him,

“Mr. Hill, it is just 65 years since I first heard you preach, and I remember your test and part of your sermon. You told us that some people were very squeamish about the delivery of different ministers who preached the same gospel. You said,

‘Suppose you were attending to hear a will read, where you expected a legacy left you, would you employ the time in criticising the manner in which the lawyer read it! No, you would not; you would be giving all your ear to hear if anything was left to you, and how much it was. That is the way I would advise you to hear the gospel.’”

Good advice, well worth remembering sixty-five years!

EXPENSE OF WAR.

Give me the money that has been expended in war, and I will purchase every foot of land upon the globe. I will clothe every man, woman, and child, in an attire that kings and queens would be proud of. I will build a school-house upon every hill-side, and in every valley, over the habitable earth. I will build an academy in every town, and endow it; a college in every state, and fill it with able professors. I will crown every hill with a church, consecrated to the promulgation of peace; I will support in its pulpit an able teacher of righteousness, so that on every Sabbath morning the chime on one hill should answer to the chime on another round the earth’s broad circumference, and the voice of prayer and song of praise should ascent like an universal holocaust to heaven.

P. STEBBING.