took this medicine and it cured me, I am perfectly well--look
at me;" I say that it is a very strange case. "Yes, it may be strange,
but it is a fact. That medicine cured me; take this medicine and it will
cure you. Although it has cost me a great deal, it shall not cost you
anything. Although the salvation of Jesus Christ is as free as the air,
it cost God the richest jewel of heaven. He had to give his only Son;
give all He had; He had only one Son, and He gave Him. Do not make light
of it, then, I beg of you." "Well" I say, "I would like to believe you,
but this is contrary to my reason." Hearing this, my friend goes away
and brings another friend to me and he testifies to the same thing. He
again goes away when I do not yet believe, and brings in another, and
another; and another, and they all testify to the same thing. They say
they were as bad as myself; and they took the same medicine that has
been offered to me, and it cured them. He then hands me the medicine. I
dash it to the ground; I do not believe in its saving power: I die. The
reason is, then, that I spurned the remedy.

So it will not be because Adam fell, but that you spurn the remedy
offered to you to save you. You will have darkness rather than light.
How, then, shall ye escape if ye neglect so great salvation? There is no
hope for you if you neglect the remedy.

Rational Belief.

Once there were a couple of men arranging a balloon ascension. They
thought they had two ropes fastened to the car, but one of them only was
fastened, and they unfastened that one rope, and the balloon started to
go up. One of the men seized hold of the car, and the other seized hold
of the rope. Up went the balloon, and the man who seized hold of the car
went up with it, and was lost. The man who laid hold of the rope was
just as sincere as the man who laid hold of the car. There was just as
much reason to say that the man who laid hold of that would be saved
because he was sincere as the man who believed in a lie because he is
sincere in his belief. I like a man to be able to give a reason for the
faith that is in him. Once I asked a man what he believed, and he said
he believed what his church believed. I asked him what his church
believed, and he said he supposed his church believed what he did; and
that was all I could get out of him. And so men believe what other
people believe and what their church believes, without really knowing
what their church and other pe