Some time ago a newspaper firm celebrated their hundredth anniversary. To commemorate the printing of their first newspaper, they reprinted thousands of copies of their first issue and distributed them to all the houses in their district.
Mrs. Jones found a newspaper pushed through her letter box that day, and not noticing the date, she began to read the ads. By and by her eyes lighted on these words! “Wanted—woman to clean office daily! Apply Morning Messenger!”
“Just the job for me,” murmured Mrs. Jones. “I want work and I’ll be the first to apply for the job.” Putting on her hat and coat she hastened to the newspaper office. The clerk who interviewed her looked puled: “We are not hiring anyone to clean our offices,” he said; “You must have been misinformed.”
“Oh no!” she protested; “there’s no mistake — I saw the ad in today’s Morning Messenger — see, here it is.”
Producing the paper she had found in her letter box, she pointed to the ad. The clerk smiled: “You are just 100 years too late,” he remarked as he pointed her to the date on the front page. “This paper is a copy of our first issue. The opening you applied for has long been filled. You are a hundred years too late.”
One day soon the Lord Jesus will come and take all those who have trusted Him as their Saviour home to heaven. No doubt many will read the way of salvation in that day and will come and seek to enter in, but they will be forever too late. The door will be shut. Come to the Saviour now while it is the day of grace.
Only a step to Jesus!
O why not come and say,
Gladly to Thee, my Saviour,
I give myself today.
ML-10/09/1977