In Broadway Tabernacle, New York, many years ago, an eloquent Universalist preacher who had addressed a large audience, at the close of his remarks said that if any one present wished to ask any questions, or reply to his arguments he would be heard. The invitation was accepted by the Rev. John Hendericks a minister of the Reformed Church, a pious, but eccentric gentleman, who left his seat, and, standing in one of the aisles, addressed the audience substantially as follows:— “My friends, I have a few words to say in confirmation of what has been said. No doubt you have heard of the inhabitants of the world before the flood, how wicked they became, and what violence and bloodshed polluted the earth, until God, in wrath, sent the water of the deluge, and swept them from the face of the earth, and took them all up to happiness in glory. But there was poor Noah, a just man, who vexed his righteous soul with their filthy communications; the Almighty shut him up in an ark with a great lot of beasts, birds, and reptiles, and he was buffeted about by the waters of the flood until the ark rested on Mount Ararat, and then he did not dare to come out of the ark until he had first sent a raven and then a dove to see if the waters had subsided. And, my friends, there were also Sodom and Gomorrah, the cities of the plain, whose inhabitants were corrupted, and were guilty of abominable iniquity; the Lord rained down fire and brimstone upon them in wrath, and then took them all up to happiness in Heaven. But poor Lot, who was vexed with their wicked and filthy condition—the Lord sent him out of the City of Sodom, and he went wandering about in much fear and perplexity. “Now, my friends, my advice to you is, go home, lie, steal, swear, profane the Sabbath, and do all manner of iniquity, and then the Almighty may, in wrath, take you away from this world of trouble, and if what the speaker said is true, take you up to glory, like the inhabitants of the old world before the flood, and of Sodom and Gomorrah. But if you obey and keep his commandments, repent of your sins, and trust in Christ for salvation, God may keep you here a long time in this troublesome world before you are called away, and he takes you to himself in Heaven.” The audience, pleased with these remarks, laughed heartily, and no converts were made to Universalism.—Presbyterian Weekly.