“MY dear old friend, can you tell me what is the best thing in this world?” So spake a servant of Christ, as he placed his hand lovingly on the shoulder of a poor-looking old man. The old man turned round, and, looking into the face of the one who had accosted him, said —
“Yes, sir, I can; for though I never learned to read, yet God has taught me by His Spirit, and I know what is the best thing in this world.” Then, slowly and feelingly, the old man said —
“The best thing in this world, sir, is to be ready for the next.”
Reader, is there a better thing than that? Are you ready? — ready for glory and eternal blessedness with Christ in heaven? Thank God, there is such a thing as being ready, and such a thing as knowing it, too.
But are you ready? If not, do you wish to be ready? and do you wish to be ready now? Then turn to God now. Repent now. Believe in Jesus now. Have faith in the blood now. Now confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and say, “O Saviour of the guilty, I do believe Thou didst die for me, even for me,” and thou shalt be saved — now. “Him that cometh unto Me I will in no wise cast out.” J.B.