THERE is a remarkable incident told in connection with the loss of the steamer Scholten, sunk off Dover, which illustrates greater things. The previous afternoon, when all was fair and bright, a number of the passengers were amusing themselves on deck, by trying on the life-belts. They laughed at their strange appearance, and some said they were quite unnecessary. In the dark midnight hour, when the vessel was sinking, after the collision, there was a rush for the life-belts, and some of those who laughed that afternoon, were drowned because they were too late in securing them. Sinners laugh at God's Word, and lightly esteem the Gospel when all is bright and fair: when youth, and health, and happiness are smiling on them; but in the hour of death, how many would be glad to have that which they despised, but alas, it is then too late. Unsaved one, beware. Trifle not with God's Gospel or His truth. They are not playthings, but like the life-belts that were provided for that vessel, they must be appropriated―used, and that in time. Sinners who reject God's salvation will be engulphed in an eternal hell; sinners who receive it will be saved for endless glory. Reader, are you a receiver or a rejector.