p. 4 | Preach Both Life and Death by Rev. E. P. Marvin

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 29, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 38.

Preach Both Life and Death

By Rev. E. P. Marvin

A UNIVERSALIST preacher, after his conversion, told me that, in his twenty years' preaching the love of God and universal salvation, he never saw a sinner converted to God. God plainly and emphatically declares in Ezekiel, that if watchmen do not warn the wicked of the death-penalty for sin, they will not repent, and the watchman must perish with them. You may talk love to careless sinners until they are love-sick, but this pleasing aspect of redemption alone will never convert them. Both life and death must be set before them, the reward of the righteous and the punishment of the wicked. Love is more influential after conversion.— Rev. E. P. Marvin.