If men did but really and realizingly believe the truth and importance of the Gospel and eternity, they never could "care nothing" about them. If a man really believes that he is at the point of death, and that there is a medicine in the next room that will cure him if taken, he never can be careless, if he have his senses, whether he takes it or not: or if a man is absolutely certain he shall be executed on such a day, if a reprieve be not previously obtained, he can never be careless about the interest of a friend that could obtain it for him: so that where people care nothing about these things, they do not really believe the truth of them; at least, they are just that to them, and no more, than if they did not believe them. They believe as if they believed them not—the belief has no effect.

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