In our western country in the autumn, when there has not been for months any rain, sometimes the prairie catches fire, and the flames just roll along twenty feet high over that western desert, at the rate of thirty or forty miles an hour, consuming man and beast.  When the frontiersmen see it coming, what do they do?  They know they cannot run as fast as the fire can run.  Not the fleetest horse can escape from that fire.  They take a match and light the grass around them and let the flames sweep, and then they get into the burnt district and stand safe.  They hear the flames roar, they see death coming towards them; but they do not fear, they do not tremble, because the fire has passed over the place where they are, and there is no danger.  There is one mountain peak that the wrath of God has swept over; that is Mount Calvary, and that fire spent its fury upon the bosom of the Son of God.  Take your stand by the cross, and you will be safe for time and eternity.
                                                                                                                            Dwight L. Moody