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The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson
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fire is not quenched. Well, Judas loved all the disciples very much, so he
thought he would be the one and save one of the others. So he went out and
agreed to betray him to the rulers for thirty pieces of silver. He knew if
he didn't do it, it might have to be Peter, James, or John, or some one
the Saviour loved very dearly, because it _had_ to be one of them. So
after it was done and he knew the others were saved from this foul deed,
he went back to the rulers and threw down their money, and went out and
hung himself. If he had been a bad man, it seems more like he would have
spent that money in wicked indulgences, food and drink and entertainments,
etc. Of course, Judas knew he would go to hell for it, so he was not as
lucky as Jesus, who knew he would go to heaven and sit at the right hand
of God when he died, which was a different matter from Judas's, who would
not have any reward at all but going to hell. It looks to me like poor
Judas had ought to be brought out of hell-fire, and I shall pray Jesus to
do it when he gets around to it."

However it might be with our Lord's betrayer, there was one soul now seen
to be deservedly in hell. Through the patient study of the Scriptures as
expounded by Grandfather Delcher, the little boy presently found himself
accepting without demur the old gentleman's unspoken but sufficiently
indicated opinion. His father was in everlasting torment--having been not
only unbaptised, but godless and a scoffer. With a quickening sense of the
majesty of that Spirit infinitely good, a new apprehension of His plan's
symmetry, he read the words meant to explain, to comfort him, silently
indicated one day by the old man:

"Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one
vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

"What if God, willing to show His wrath, and to make His power known,
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