These
things you must experience.
I am now talking of the invisible realities of another world, of
inward religion, of the work of God upon a poor sinner's heart. I am
now talking of a matter of great importance, my dear hearers; you are
all concerned in it, your souls are concerned in it, your eternal
salvation is concerned in it. You may be all at peace, but perhaps the
devil has lulled you asleep into a carnal lethargy and security, and
will endeavor to keep you there till he gets you to hell, and there
you will be awakened; but it will be dreadful to be awakened and find
yourselves so fearfully mistaken when the great gulf is fixt, when
you will be calling to all eternity for a drop of water to cool your
tongue and shall not obtain it.
BLAIR
THE HOUR AND THE EVENT OF ALL TIME
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Hugh Blair, the preacher and divine, was born in Edinburgh, 1718. He
entered the university of his native town and graduated in 1739. Two
years later he was licensed to preach; he was ordained minister of
Colossie, Fife, in 1742, but returned to Edinburgh and in 1762
was made regius professor of rhetoric and belles-lettres to the
university.
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