SOME time ago there were brought to men’s minds thoughts which never would have arisen unless there had been something to create these thoughts. I refer to the chapter of accidents we heard of, and the number of souls hurled into eternity without a moment’s warning and with no possible chance of escape.
“Life at best is very brief.” “Be in time.” The first incident is the burning at sea of the emigrant ship “Volturno”; then the colliery disaster at Senghenydd, Wales; the railway accident at Liverpool; and lastly, the airship catastrophe in Germany.
God has spoken once, yea twice—once on the sea, once on the land, once beneath the land, and once above the land, proving that the “eyes of the Lord are in every place,” and the voice of God is to all men and women everywhere.
Supposing you, my dear unconverted reader, had been in any of these accidents. How would it have fared with your soul? Would it have hurled you into the presence of God, into the company of the Lord Jesus, into one of the many mansions? or would it have hurled you into the “lake of fire”? into “hell fire, where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched”? into “everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord”?
In one or other of these two spheres your eternity MUST be spent. Where will you spend it? Oh! hasten, friend, the day of grace will soon be past. Decide now, for the cold clammy hand of Death may claim you as its next victim.
Remember, God has issued a commandment, and that to repent.
The blessed Lord Himself said, “Except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish.” What is repentance? My dictionary says, “Deep sorrow for sin.” The Scriptures teach me it is “taking sides with God against yourself.” But what are God’s terms of repentance?
When? “Now.”
To whom? ‘All men.”
Where? “Everywhere.”
Why “Because He hath appointed a day in the which He will judge the world in righteousness.”
It is to be obtained through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
“What can wash away my stain?
Nothing but the blood of Jesus.”
Oh! dear friend, listen to the speaking and commanding voice of God.
B. G. D.