No man can control his belief. You hear evidence for and
against, and the integrity of the soul stands at the scales and tells
which side rises and which side falls. You cannot believe as you wish.
You must believe as you must. And He might as well have said: "Go into
all the world and preach the gospel, and whosoever has red hair shall
be saved, and whosoever hath not shall be damned."

I have another reason. I am much obliged to the gentleman who
interpolated these passages. I am much obliged to him that he put in
some more--two, more. Now hear:

"And these signs shall follow them that believe." Good.

"In My name shall they cast out devils. They shall speak with new
tongues, and they shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly
thing it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick, and
they shall recover."

Bring on your believer! Let him cast out a devil. I do not claim a
large one, "just a little one for a cent." Let him take up serpents.
"And if he drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt him." Let me mix
up a dose for the theological believer, and if it does not hurt him
I'll join a church. O, but, "they say those things only lasted through
that apostolic age." Let us see. "Go ye into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall
be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs
shall follow them that believe."

How long? I think at least until they had gone into all the world.
Certainly these signs should follow until all the world had been
visited. And yet if that declaration was in the mouth of Christ, he
then knew that one-half of the world was unknown and that he would be
dead 1,492 years before his disciples would know that there was another
world. And yet he said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel,"
and he knew then that it would be 1,492 years before anybody went.
Well, if it was worth while to have signs follow believers in the old
world, surely it was worth while to have signs follow believers in the
new world. And the very reason that signs should follow would be to
convince the unbeliever, and there are as many unbelievers now as ever,
and the signs are as necessary today as they ever were. I would like a
few myself.

This frightful declaration, "He that believeth and is baptized shall be
saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned," has filled the world
with agony and crim