Will you seek Philosophy, and confide in that?
It is a ravening wolf, and ere morning you are consumed.

Will you lean on human pride--on your own sufficiency?
It is a broken reed, and your fall will be forever fatal.
Will you say there is no God ?"--his voice sank into a low, menacing whisper--"will you say there is no God ?" He raised his hands warningly, and shook them over the congregation while he lowered his voice.

"Hush! hush! lest he hear--lest he mark--lest the great Jehovah"-- his voice swelling suddenly into loud, piercing tones--"Maker of heaven and earth, Judge of the quick and the dead, the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the eternal Godhead from everlasting to everlasting, should know that you, pitiable, crawling worm--that you, corrupt in nature and conceived in sin! child of wrath and of the devil! say that there is no God! Woe, woe! for the Judge cometh! Woe, woe! for the gnashing of teeth and the outer darkness! Woe, woe! for those who crucified him, and buffeted him, and pierced him with thorns! Woe, woe! for the Lord our God is a just God, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.

But oh! when the day of mercy is past! Oh! for the hour--sinner, sinner, beware! beware!--when that anger rises like an ingulfing fiery sea, and sweeps thee away forever!" It seemed as if the sea had burst into the building; for the congregation half rose, and a smothered cry swept over the people.

Many rose upright with clasped hands and cried, "Hallelujah!" "Praise be to God!" Others lay cowering and struggling upon the seats; others sobbed and gazed with frantic earnestness at the face of the young apostle.