“That when the Great White Throne shall be set, the real Christian will be seated in glory with Jesus, the Judge. And only the wicked, unsaved dead will be judged there. The sin of the true Christian, she said, is done with, settled, put away at the Cross.
“‘There is therefore now no condemnation (judgment) to them who are in Christ Jesus.’ ‘He that heareth, and believeth on Jesus, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into the judgment, but is passed from death unto life.’
“She told me that the true Christian, who might be living, when the Lord should Return, would be caught up into the air, with all the Christian dead, who will rise from their graves; and, that then the only judgment that can ever come to the Christian, will take place. That will be at Christ’s judgment of Rewards. She said that eternal life did not enter into the question. That was settled once and for ever, but at Christ’s Reward-judgment, the Christian’s work would be tried.”
Some of the silk-hatted listening men began to fidget. All this talk was foreign and uninteresting to them.
“The lady,” the girl went on, “promised to meet me this morning at the station, at the same time as we met yesterday, ‘Should the Lord Tarry’ she said. But I saw nothing of her this morning. She had been ‘caught up,’ of course, to meet her Lord in the air, and I——”
The girl’s voice broke, her eyes streamed with tears. One of the youngest of the stock-brokers asked:—
“But why, if Salvationists are Christians, are you here? Why were you not translated?”
“God help me!” she cried, “I know now, now that it is too late, that I was never converted. I was drawn into an Army meeting by reports I heard of the singing and music. The Army’s methods fascinated me—the young officer who came to our town, was a very taking fellow. He talked to me in an after-meeting, I wept with the many emotions that were at work within me; I went to the penitent form—and—and—afterwards joined the Salvation Army—but I know now, I was not really saved.”
She caught her breath in a quick sob, then a little glow suddenly filled her face, as she added:—