1. Rather Go to Hell; the Last Call

A gospel service had been held some years ago at a hall in the Channel Islands, after which a number of Christian friends, desirous that others should know the Saviour, wended their way to the sea-shore to hold an open-air service.
When near the spot selected, one of the number turned aside to ask a man who was lounging about to come and hear the oft-told story of God’s boundless love to sinners. But alas! he was a hardened sinner, and, twice refused the loving, earnest invitation, supplementing his second refusal with the awful words, “I would rather go to hell than hear the Gospel.”
Did he forecast his own judgment? Did he unthinkingly make his lasting choke between heaven and hell? Be this as it may, the solemn fact remains, that the same evening at ten o’clock, this blasphemous trifler was seized with illness and before the belfry clock chimed the midnight hour he was dead.