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After a service in a place where the people had been a good deal bewildered by a young preacher, who accepted only so much of the Bible as suited his whims, and who was wont to make merry over the idea of future punishment, a man stepped up to me and said in a bantering voice: "Bishop, do you believe in hell?" I said, "Are you anxious to know what I think of hell?" "Yes," said he. "Well," said I, "the best answer I ever heard came from a poor woman. She had a young niece, who sorely tried the poor soul. The more she struggled to keep this wilful charge in the right way the more she seemed to wander. One day, after hearing a new preacher, the niece came bounding into the room and said: 'Aunty, I ain't gwine to believe in a hell no more. Ef dar is any hell, I jest wants to know where dey gets all de brimstone for dat place; dat's 'zactly what I would like to know.' The old woman fixed her eyes on her, and with a tear on her cheek, said: 'Ah, honey darlin', you look out you don't go dere, for you'll find dey takes dere own brimstone wid 'em.'" I then said, "Is there any other question in theology you would like to ask?" "No," said he. And he went home, I hope, with a new idea that sin brings sorrow and that to be saved we need deliverance from sin. Some men carry "their own brimstone" even in this world.

(Bp. Whipple.)

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KJV: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

WEB: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;