When God was challenging c t stud bout his future he came across this tract written by an atheistGod used it to challenge his lifeIt reads as followsThat I firmly believe as millions say they doThat the knowledge & practice of religion in this life influences destiny in another religion would mean everything to meI would cast away earthly enjoyments as drossEarthly cares as follys & earthly thoughts & feelings as vanityReligion would be my first waking thought & my last image before sleep sank me into unconsciousnessI should labour in its cause alone I would take thought for the morow of eternity aloneI would estemm 1 soul gained for heaven worth a life of suffeningEarthly consequences should never stay my hand nor seal my lipsEarth its joys & its griefs would occupy no moment of my thoughtsi would strive to look upon eternity alone & on the immortal souls around meSoon to be everlastingly happy or everlastingly misrebleI would go forth to the world & preach to it in season & out of it season & my text would be What shall it prophet a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soulC t stud said I saw at once that this was the truly consistant Christian life When I looked back upon my own life I saw how inconsistent it had been I therefore determined that from that time forth my life should be consitant & I set myself to know what was Gods will for me Challenged by an atheistfrom the sermon called to die by michael l brown
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Brother thank you for sharing that, I first heard this in a book called: True Discipleship by William McDonald. Also Leonard Ravenhill quoted it in his sermon on this site: [url=https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/mydownloads/singlefile.php?lid=776]Eternity (CD Quality) [/url]! thanks for sharing again. I actually wrote it in the inside cover of my old bible.
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