It is this inevitableness of the demonstration upon which we would fasten attention.  We are not always to live in this world of shadows.  We are going individually into the very face and eyes of Jehovah, and whatever notions we may have adopted and maintained must all disappear, except as they shall be actually verified by what we shall see and know in that period of our existence when we shall perceive with the accuracy and clearness of God Himself.  Our most darling theories, by which we may have sought to solace our souls in reference to our future destiny, if false, will be all ruthlessly torn away, and we must see what verily and eternally is.  All mankind come upon one doctrinal platform when they enter eternity.  They all have one creed there.  There is not a skeptic even in hell.  The devils believe and tremble.  The demonstration that God is holy is so irrefragable, so complete and absolute, that doubt or denial is impossible in any spirit that has passed the line between time and eternity.

2.  In the second place, this subject shows that indifference and carelessness respecting the future life will not protect the soul from future misery.  There may be no false theory adopted, and yet if there be no thoughtful preparation to meet God, the result will be all the same.  I may not dispute the Newtonian theory of gravitation, yet if I pay no heed to it, if I simply forget it, as I clamber up mountains, and walk by the side of precipices, my body will as surely be dashed to pieces as if I were a theoretical skeptic upon the subject of gravitation.

The creature’s indifference can no more alter the immutable nature of God, than can the creature’s false reasoning, or false theorizing.  That which is settled in heaven, that which is fixed and eternal, stands the same stern, relentless fact under all circumstances.  We see the operation of this sometimes here upon earth, in a very impressive manner.  A youth or a man simply neglects the laws and conditions of physical well-being.  He does not dispute them.  He merely pays no attention to them.  A. few years pass by, and disease and torturing pain become his portion.  He comes now into the awful presence of the powers and the facts which the Creator has inlaid in the world, of physical existence.  He knows now even as he is known.  And the laws are stern.  He finds no place of repentance in them, though he seek it carefully with tears.  The laws never repent, never change their mind.  The principles of physical life and growth which he has never disputed, but which he has never regarded, now crush him into the ground in their relentless march and motion.