Excerpt from Millennial Star, Vol. 68: December 20, 1906 The World - Were you called by the Lord to preach repentance unto the people in your day? Noah - I was. The Lord beheld that the wickedness of the children of men was great upon the earth. They had entirely turned away from the holy commandments which had been delivered unto them. They took pleasure in all manner of wickedness and abominations. They were, as are millions of the human family at the present time, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God. The Lord saw that the imaginations of their hearts were evil continu ally, and that they would surely perish if they did not turn from their wicked, reprobate ways. Therefore, he called me to be a preacher of righteousness, and commissioned me to go forth and cry repentance unto that wicked and perverse generation. I was commanded to build an ark, into which I was to take all those who would hearken unto my words and turn unto the Lord. I was obedient unto the heavenly commandment, and went forth among the people, crying repentance unto them, and warning them to flee from the wrath to come. I preached not alone by precept, but by my works also. I immedi ately set to work to construct the ark, and during the one hundred and twenty years while the ark was being prepared, I cried aloud and spared not. 0, how my soul was grieved when I beheld the hardness of the hearts of the people, for I knew that God would not be mocked, that He would not strive with them forever, but that he would surely destroy them if they did not re pent of their sins. The World - What success did you meet with, Noah, in your preaching? Noah - Practically none. My words seemed to them as idle tales. They spurned the message which I brought them from their merciful Creator. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they married and were given in marriage up till the very day that I and my family-eight souls in all - entered the ark, and the Lord shut the door. Even now, I fancy I can hear their scoffs and scorns, their mockings and derisions, as we bade them a last farewell till we would meet them at the judgment bar of God. Then was the word of the Lord fulfilled, and His righteous judgments were poured out upon those wicked people and they perished from the earth. (gen. 6: And now, in closing my testimony, I will say to you, that God has not changed: He is_the same yesterday, to-day and forever; He does not look upon sin with the least degree of allowance, and just as sure as God is God, so sure will His judg ments come upon the inhabitants of the earth in these latter-days if they do not repent and turn from their transgressions. Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. (luke 13. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.