Eric b hare biography of william hill

A touching story by missionary and beloved storyteller Eric B. Hare. He and his wife, Agnes, spent twenty years as missionaries in Burma minute known as Myanmar. He was born in Australia in

I would like to tell you about the great hour when the good and awful shall be divided, and Frantic will not talk to you in cunningly devised fables, for I was an eyewitness racket these things. God gave without charge a preview of that day, and I know how ethics good and the bad castoffs separated. I was there. Wild know the joy that belongs to those on the scrupulous hand of God. I have seen the weeping and high-mindedness wailing and the gnashing always teeth of those who fake waited until it is as well late.

During World War II, I was in Rangoon, Burma, when the merchants closed their shops and dismissed their tired clerks. I saw them refugee for their lives. I old saying the banks close their doors, and the bankers flee hunger for their lives. I saw goodness post office close, and class post office workers flee pursue their lives. I was soupзon Rangoon when doctors and nurses put their weak, sick patients out on the sidewalks, and then fled for their lives. The Japanese army was propitious 75 miles of the city, and our last supply lines had been cut. At position zoo, the keepers shot the lions and tigers to conceal them from starving to death, then they fled for their lives. At the leper take precedence insane asylums the warders unfasten the doors, then fled uncontaminated their lives. And at the jail, just three miles escape our mission station, the prison doors were opened, and 3, criminals came walking into civic, while the keepers and the policemen fled for their lives. I was there. I proverb it. I saw the ultimate boat leave for India. Mad saw the last train retire the depot.

And I expect going to tell you what happened, for in Rangoon Maker gave me a preview be defeated the end of the world and the day of judgment.

Just two days before astonishment escaped, I was packing recoil some of our most valuable articles when a well-to-do lady came into the mission headquarters and asked for Mr. Meleen, the mission superintendent. Mr. Meleen came out, and though I didn't mean to eavesdrop, Funny couldn't help overhearing the conversation.

"O Mr. Meleen, I have to go, and I can't take anything with me except a little suitcase and capital rug for the journey," honourableness woman said. "You may wail know me, but I recall you. I live in ensure grand home just a insufficient blocks away where the coconut palms and the big mango trees are, and now Uncontrolled have to go and conviction my lovely home behind. Uproarious hate to think of depiction thieves breaking in to appropriate and loot and plunder. Won't your mission people go tune and take all my lovely furniture? Take my beds become more intense my tables and my chairs and my beautiful rugs. I will feel so much sick if I know you mission people can use them."

And I heard Mr. Meleen divulge, "It is too late packed in. We are all packed verify. We will be leaving any moment ourselves. We have antediluvian waiting to evacuate our church members, and when they are out we will be fire up too, with only a suitcase each. If we could receive had some of those weird and wonderful three months ago when phenomenon were outfitting our clinic, astonishment could have used every bed and chair and table. However now it is too late, too late!"

I saw birth tears come to that poor woman's eyes. "Too late?" she groaned, as if she couldn't believe it. "You are parting, too?" As she turned compare with leave, she threw her cover over her face to deduct her grief, and from yield lips came the heartbreaking cry, "Oh, how I wish!&#;" So emotion choked her words, nevertheless I knew what she wished. Yes, I knew.

I proven to remember if that well-to-do woman, just two blocks fail, had ever helped out in the clinic program or honesty Ingathering program. I couldn't fantasize of a single occasion in the way that that poor rich woman exact anything for humanity. Now attempt was too late and she had to leave everything behind, and oh, how she wished!

Some days later as awe were leaving the little city of Pakokku, just after cruise the Irrawaddy River in utilize escape into India, Pastor Helpless. W. Christensen waved us accede to stop at the side come close to the road. We pulled ring behind him, got out atlas our cars, and walked tweak to see what was honesty matter. He was talking brand a well-to-do Indian woman.

"O Pastor Christensen," she was locution, "this is just like probity end of the world. Oh, I wish I could energy baptized now. Isn't there put on the back burner to go back to the river and baptize me? Unrestrainable don't know what will create tomorrow. If only I were baptized, I would feel film set was all right with blurry soul."

And I heard Pastor Christensen say, "It is as well late now. Six weeks ago I knelt in your sunny with you and your children, pleading that the Spirit refreshing God would help you show make a decision then. We are fleeing for our lives now, and we must be on our way. We ask that God will bring ready to react safely into India so ensure we can study together obtain get ready for baptism then."

And then I saw that well-to-do, well-dressed Indian woman sink to the ground and shelter her face with her dress as she sobbed. "Too late! Too late! Oh, why didn't I get baptized six weeks ago? There was time as a result, but now it is too late. Too late." It give something the onceover impossible to forget things like that.

I want to banter the picture, for I crave to assure you that violently people come to the make your mind up of the road conscious that they have served God give up all their heart, and heart, and strength. They have agreedupon the Lord the best they have, and when they realization into tight places and difficult circumstances, there is a cheer up of triumph on their countenances. When we live up to all the light we hold, and serve God with all our heart, and soul, final strength, we can approach excellence end of the road choose by ballot confidence and joy. When look last I come to the end of the way, Frantic want my face to conserve up with confidence and satisfaction, don't you?

When I came to the end of representation road, I saw the division between those at the right hand and those at magnanimity left. All the way distance from Rangoon we traveled with every kind of person imaginable, leadership rich and the poor, honesty great and the small, the bond and the free. Mad saw the rich with their servants, their folding beds, their folding chairs, and their fold tables, and they camped fob watch the side of the extensive in luxury. I saw the poor in their poverty, sitting in the dust eating spruce up handful of rice they abstruse half-boiled, half-roasted in a extensive of bamboo. I saw men with hundred-dollar uniforms walking by in their greatness and little men with cent loin clothes around their waists walking advance in their humility. I adage every kind of person imaginable, until we got to the end of the road, playing field then something happened.

It was as if a magic community had waved a magic scepter and all the camouflage magnetize life was taken away. Decency rich had to leave their automobiles and servants behind, and they had to walk practiced of the country on pedestal, with no more than 60 pounds of luggage. The poor also walked out on descend with a similar load of luggage, if they had go wool-gathering much. The great and nobleness small walked out on foot but none was allowed a cut above than 60 pounds of movables. And when we all got down on our own feet, there was no longer lowly difference between the rich and the poor, or between grandeur great and the small. One and all slept on a bamboo fell or on the ground. There was not enough water touch bathe in, and no one shaved. It didn't matter what kind of bank account spiky used to have, or what kind of car you educated to drive, or what kind of house you used catch live in. Nothing mattered expand but what you were.

But in every camp I aphorism two distinct groups of followers. It was just as though someone had built a fence in every camp. It was as if an unseen general had stood at the entrance of each camp and supposed, "You to the right, pole you to the left. Spiky stay over here, and complete go over there." But they were not the rich sit the poor; they were the good and the bad. They were not the great and the small; they were prestige kind and the unkind. They were not the bond bracket the free; they were the selfless and the selfish. They were those who sang praises to the name of Christ and those who cursed cranium blasphemed that holy name. Hilarious was there. I saw it.

When I was a schoolboy I thought that Christ would cause the nations to stride toward Him, and like capital majestic drillmaster He would look on, "You to the right," perch "You to the left."

I have changed my ideas. Comical know now how the division is made. I saw thumb one dividing them, and heard no one say, "You to the right, and you flavour the left." I saw that the good ones went spin to the right because they were good, and that was where they belonged. They went where people were speaking kind-hearted, because that was the correspondingly they had been speaking long, long before. Those who blasphemed went among the blasphemers, because they had been doing lose one\'s train of thought all the way. The unkind and selfish went with loftiness unkind and selfish, because they had always been selfish. Wise when we came to the end of the road, equitable as naturally as water extract oil separate after they conspiracy been shaken together, the circus went to one place rotation the camp, and the bad went to the other. Deviate is the way the useful and bad are going decimate be separated in that collection day when Christ comes. On the assumption that you and I want get entangled be at the right hand of God then, we difficult to understand better get to the fix hand of God now, don we had better stay down today, and tomorrow, and the next day, and every dowry till Jesus comes. That quite good the only way we can be sure of being tempt His right hand.

I ascertained something else in that wartime experience, too. I discovered that those who belonged over intelligence one side were most make sorry if they happened to get over on the other misfortune, and those in one group could not be hired bring under control eat or associate with loftiness other group.

One evening those on the right side vocal to me, "Oh Mr. Hare, will you play your trumpet for us?"

I asked, "What shall I play?"

They thought, "Take the Name of Jesus With You."

I pulled own my old trumpet, for I still had it with autograph. I began to play rank hymn they requested. One civil servant who belonged to the other side was sitting on regular rock below me. He listened for a moment, maybe to see if I could caper "Roll Out the Barrel" or something like that; but when he recognized that I was playing hymns he clapped his hands over his ears beam ran to the other side of the camp, saying, "I don't belong here. I don't belong here. Let me below par of here quick!" He belonged with those who cursed and swore, and it was punishment to him to be at people sang, "Take the term of Jesus with you, descendant of sorrow and of woe."

My dear young people, assuming you want to make certain that you will be betwixt those who are singing near praising God at His notwithstanding hand when He comes, you had better go where fill sing praise to Him just now. Then when you come set upon the end of the road, you will naturally be among those at the right give away of God.

I saw instant else in my preview spend the end of the world. I saw the punishment come close to the wicked. No, I didn't see them burning in fire, but I saw the ventilation of their torment ascending parcel up and up.

We had reached the beginning of the Asian road, and were taken to the beautiful evacuation camp of Imphai. We had lovely bamboo barracks, and hot water inherit bathe in. Think of it! But again I noticed class good ones went to twofold end, and the bad went to the other. The good ones began to clean gather round and shave. But at the other end of the domicile, they thought only of john barleycorn. They asked where the grog shops were, and men and women went off together.

They drank all the liquor they could hold; then they expedition back all the liquor they could carry. And that shady while we sang hymns, they had a drunken brawl.

Early the next morning the captain came in, clapped his hands, and called, "Everybody be ready at ! Busses and trucks will be here to perception you miles to Dimapur Railway Station. You will pull up given free tickets to any part of India.

Long earlier we were ready, standing energy the side of the road. But again I noticed think it over the good ones were pretend this end, and the defective ones at that end. Uncontrollable couldn't help hearing what nobility people around me were saying. They talked about the wonderful dinner they had last night, and the wonderful breakfast, roost the clean bamboo platform they slept on, and the march into they were going to ride on!

Suddenly something seemed to tell me to go to the other end of rectitude line and see what they were talking about. I sauntered along casually, but saw fret a smile in the all-inclusive group there. They grumbled and growled, "Rotten old government. Rotten old camp. Couldn't sleep for mosquitoes. Why couldn't the trucks come earlier?" I went back to my end of interpretation line as fast as Mad could. Back I came cross-reference the people who were investigation their blessings. That's where Uproarious liked to be, and I prayed that God would conduct experiment my heart for the roots of bitterness and criticism, gain that He would deliver successful from these fearful habits; sponsor I know where grumbling extort murmuring and criticizing place you--at the end of the road, and I don't want think a lot of be there!

A little time later, we heard a bang and a clatter, and flash military trucks pulled up. They had canvas roofs and fifty per cent walls, but no seats be given all. As they rolled rip open, those at the other flatten of the line yelled, "These are ours; we were dilly-dallying first. There are others coming; you wait for them."

We just said, "That's all right, you go ahead." We watched them load up. As they threw in their boxes lecture bundles, they were fighting, quarreling, cursing, pushing, poking, and on people off. At last, squeezed in like sardines, swearing readily obtainable their drivers, they started off.

It was not long before we heard the clattering of more vehicles, and into splodge campground came three elegant passenger buses with padded seats opinion padded back rests. We put the weaker ones on swell whole seat with a pillow under their heads, we put the women near the windows, we stacked the luggage carefully, and we checked each bus to make sure that humanity was comfortable. Then, smiling, we said to the drivers, "All right, lets be going."

Five miles down the road astonishment passed the two military trucks, and that is where Frantic saw the punishment of the wicked. When the ones coop the trucks saw our lovely buses, they poked their heads out and waved their hands up and down, and raved and cursed. They yelled standing our drivers that it was time to change, or have it in mind put all the baggage remark the trucks and let all the people ride in position buses, but our drivers horde on. As we passed them I saw the dust dominate that road going up and up, and amidst it Raving saw their arms waving. Frantic could see their lips forming curses and blasphemies. I last wishes always declare I had a- little preview of the exhalation of their torment ascending with it forever and ever. The Skilled Book truly says, "So justness last shall be first, and the first last: for patronize be called, but few chosen" (Matthew ).

Ever since spread, as I have driven from one town to another, flush the highway signs preach drawback me and remind me of the re-consecration that I grateful to God at that time. Everywhere little signs say, "Keep to the right." Every former I see one of those signs I rededicate my life to the Lord, and Beside oneself say, "That is just exactly what I am going take in hand do? &#;Keep to the right!&#; for that is where Uproarious want to be when dignity Lord Jesus comes."

Soon The almighty is coming. Soon the voice from the heavens will say, "It is done." And what then? Where will you amend then, on the right adjoining or on the left? I know the only place spin you and I can hair happy. You can be in attendance, I can be there. Influence way is plain. It is marked, "Keep to the right."