PICTURE to yourself a workhouse infirmary. On one of the beds lies an old man very ill. It is visiting day. Many friends are there to see him, amongst them two of the Lord’s servants, one of whom has long striven to lead this sick soul to the Saviour, but hitherto only to meet with rebuffs; but now all is changed―the fear of death is there, a God to meet, an eternity to spend, sin and its judgment―eternity in its dread reality has opened up to him.
Waving his arm, he bids his friends to stand aside, and after asking forgiveness for what he had said before to his kind visitor, he spoke in a loud voice, so as to be heard by all in the ward, the following words―
“Jesus I want―Jesus I must have; or I perish.” He died and went to be with Jesus one week after this.
How is it with you, my reader? Do you want Jesus? If you don’t have Him, you perish! Don’t wait another moment. God never in Scripture offers salvation at any time but the present. Not in the future, but now.
Jesus you must have, or you perish.
“I could not do without Thee,
O Saviour of the lost,
Who by Thy blood redeemed me
At such tremendous cost.”
E. C.