"Your maid confessed Christ as her Savior just now," said a visiting preacher to me one morning. He had marked her interest as night after night she had attended his meetings, and had sought an opportunity for a personal word. I knew that other influences struggled for mastery with her, and rejoiced with trembling.
It was as I feared. The mission came to an end, the preacher went away, and, sad to say, her desire for salvation vanished. The world pulled hard, especially the companionship of her worldly sister who was near her own age.
In vain we tried to win her. We pleaded with her to let Christ be first in her heart. She was almost persuaded, but —.
Who shall say what her future may be? Even if she should be saved after all, think of the years wasted, sowing to the whirlwind, when she might have been sowing the seed that would have produced a golden harvest for Christ.
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"Will you speak to Annie? She has had a frightening dream, and is anxious about her soul.”
Soon the opportunity came. She had dreamed of the Day of Judgment, and that she had been there unsaved. She wept as I pointed her to Jesus. We prayed, and I hoped she would decide for Christ. She seemed so near, almost persuaded, but —.
In her case a lover was the obstacle. He did not want a Christian wife. What shall the end be? I know not. When I last heard of her she was more careless than ever. Oh, how dangerous a thing it is to be deaf to warning! How dangerous to stifle soul anxiety!
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"Have you ever thought of giving yourself to Christ?" I asked a young man. He told me he had thought much about it since he had been at a special service some weeks previously. Once again I sought to tell him the simple, lovely story of Jesus and His love. I besought him earnestly to yield himself to the Lord who had loved him and given Himself for him. In the end he said, "I have not heard it like this before! I must think it over." He, too, seemed so near, almost persuaded, but—.
Years are passing away. Will he ever yield to the Savior? God grant he may!
Is it thus with you, my reader? If so, beware of being almost saved, for that is perilously near being altogether lost. What hinders you—a sister, a lover, a friend? Let me tell you the solemn truth: they may keep you from Jesus; they may unwittingly compass your soul's destruction; but they can never save you. Today you can be saved. Today the Savior longs to bless you. "TODAY if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts." Heb. 3:1515While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. (Hebrews 3:15). When the barrier of time is once passed over I can give you no hope. Delay not, then, but give ear and heart to the words:
"Behold the Lamb of God,
which taketh away
the sin of
the world!”