"They preach of God's love and mercy, as they ought to do; and as God commanded them; but of what avail is it to preach mercy unless they preach also the doom of the wicked? And how shall we effect the purpose of preaching unless we warn men that if they turn not 'God will whet his sword?' I fear that in too many places the doctrine of future punishment is rejected and laughed as fancy and a chimera; but the day will come when it shall be known to be a reality. Ahab scoffed at Micaiah when he said he should never come home alive; the men of Noah's generation laughed at the foolish old man (as they thought him), who bid them take heed that the world should be drowned, but when they were climbing to the tree tops, and the floods were following them, did they then say that the prophecy was untrue: And when the arrow was sticking in the heart of Ahab, and he said, 'Take me from the battle for I must die,' did he then think that Micaiah spoke an untruth? And so it is now." (Source Turn or Burn)
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