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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 87

The Fall of Man

The Fall of Man,

and he went on to about twenty-thirdly; then he struck the second application. And when he struck the second application I knew he was about half way through. And then he went on to show the scheme how the Lord was satisfied by punishing the wrong man. Nobody but a God would have thought of that ingenious way. Well, when he got through that, then came the catechism—the chief end of mau. Then my turn came, and we sat along on a little bench where our feet came within about fifteen inches of the floor, and the dear old minister used to ask us :

"Boys, do you know that you all ought to be in hell?"

And we answered up as cheerfully as could be expected under the circumstances, "Yes, sir,"

"Well, boys, do you know that you would go to hell if you died in your sins?"

And we said, "Yes, sir."

And then came the great test :

"Boys "—I can't get the tone, you know. And do you know that is how the preachers get the bronchitis. You never heard of