At last Jesus will sit upon a white throne, and everybody will stand round his throne. He will open some books, in which he has written down all the naughty things people have done. God has seen all the naughty things you have done. He can see in the dark as well as in the light, and knows all your naughty thoughts. He will read everything out of his books before the angels that stand around. Yet God will forgive some people, because Christ died upon the cross. Whom will he forgive? Those who love Jesus with all their hearts. He has written down their names in another book, called The Book of Life. He will forgive their sins, wipe away their tears, and let them live with him forever. Do you hope that Jesus has written down your name in his book? Ask him to give you his Holy Spirit. Then you will love Jesus, and hate to do wickedly. This is what God will do to those who do not love him—God will bind them in chains, and put them in a lake of fire. There they will gnash their teeth, and weep and wail forever. God will put Satan in the same place, and all the devils. Satan is the father of the wicked, and he and his children shall be tormented forever. They shall not have one drop of water to cool their burning tongues. Many people in hell will say, How I wish I had listened to the words of my teachers! But I would not mind; and now it is too late. I never can come out of this dreadful place. How foolish I have been! Once God would have heard my prayers, but now I weep and wail in vain. I hope, my dear children, that none of you will ever speak such sad words. Remember Satan goes about as a cunning serpent, trying to make you disobey God; but Christ will keep you from wickedness, if you pray to him. One day God will burn up this world we live in. It is dreadful to see a house on fire. Did you ever see one? But how dreadful it will be to see this great world and all the houses and trees burning! The noise will be terrible: the heat will be very great. The wicked will not be able to get away. They will be cast into the lake of fire. The world will not burn forever; God will make another world, much better than this. If you are God’s child, you will not be frightened when the world is burning, for you will be safe with Jesus, praising him for having loved and saved you. How oft behind yon hill The sun has hid his face! How oft return’d to fill With joyful light the place! And shall the sun forever thus return? Shall morn succeed to eve, and eve to morn? Oh no! the day shall come, (And who can tell how soon!) When dark shall be that sun, And red the silver moon: When sun or moon shall never more return, But God on clouds shall come the world to burn.