Our text speaks of the way to the kingdom of God as being one of much tribulation. Now I received the message, which I believe the Lord has given me to deliver to you this morning, in a singular manner. It came to me in a dream on Friday night. Without further preface I shall now proceed as simply as possible to narrate my dream. All the inhabitants of the world appeared before me in an extensive open plain. As I gazed, I perceived there were great differences among them of race, locality, refinement, religion, colour, and riches. Great masses were sunk in poverty and vice. Still, there seemed plenty of gaiety, animation, and even happiness, among considerable sections. Besides, the vast plain where they…

How vast is the difference between the man who is a Christian and the man who is not a Christian! For to the Christian to live is Christ, and for him to die is gain. On the contrary, the man who is not a Christian lives to self and the world—whatever may be his profession; and for him to die in that state is loss of all his hopes, the loss of all his happiness, the loss of all his possessions, and the loss of his immortal soul; and, "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Mark 8:36, 37). May the Lord seal…