th you? Judgment has begun at the house of God.
What are you? What is the product of your life? Is your influence
beneficial? Does the result of your life shew that you are born of God?

A HOLY LIFE IS THE ONLY WAY TO ESCAPE
THE FIRE OF HELL.

Do not say you do no harm; that is not enough, you are to bear fruit unto
holiness. Your life must be profitable to God, or you cannot escape the
axe. A man does not plant apple trees to look at, but to gather fruit
from. Have you paid God for all He has expended on you? Remember you
are British, you live where there are Bibles, Ministers, Sunday Schools.
Public opinion is on the side of right. It is easier to be good here
than anywhere else in the world. The husbandman will not be satisfied
with leaves or blossoms, there must be

FRUIT OR FIRE!

"The axe is laid to the root of the trees."

Yes, you will do well to consider that there is a power of destruction
which may be called into action any moment.

Look, then, at

GOD'S WOODMAN.

It is his duty to remove the trees when the time comes. Mark you, he
does not cut all down. The trees which bear good fruit he transplants to
grow for ever in THE PARADISE OF GOD. Yes, death differs in his action,
and those of us who live a holy life need not to dread him. He is rough,
but he means well by us, and though we may feel it when he pulls us up by
the roots, it is to grow in better soil, and under fairer skies.

You, though, who bear evil fruit, YOU DO WELL TO FEAR DEATH. Keep good
friends with the doctor, so that you may have no difficulty in getting
him day or night, but remember that he is useless when the woodman aims a
blow at the root.

THE WISEST AND MOST SKILFUL OF MEDICAL MEN
CANNOT TAKE THE AXE OUT OF DEATH'S HAND!

There will be no escape when the woodman gets his orders. Mark you, the
axe is at the root this time. He has lopped off some of the branches. I
see in the graveyard, headstones with names of infants low down, and
space left for the father's and mother's names. Yes, he will come for
you next. What will you do then? THE TREE IS HELPLESS, IT CANNOT GET
AWAY FROM THE AXE! Blow upon blow descends, there is no help for it, and
so it will be with you. What is it that your heart says,--"I will send
for praying people?" Yes, and if they come, what then? Perhaps God will
hear, and say to the woodman, "Put up thy axe for another year or two.
Let us see if he will keep his word and bear