Some time ago a man just dropped in my office who obviously was despairing of life. It did not take long for me to know that he had virtually come to the end of his rope. He had no meaning, no purpose in existence. I had just been teaching to our church the Roman road of salvation and I decided that I would use that plan of salvation on him. I took that little book of Romans and I opened it to the first page where they asked the question, “Would you like to have eternal life?” And he said to me, rather emphatically, no. He said, as a matter of fact, that is the last thing in this world that he wanted was eternal life. He said that the finest thing that could happen to him would be to go to sleep and never wake up again.
Sometimes, he said, “I think about taking...