MY DEAR young readers, —I wonder if you are aware of the fact that the Lord Jesus is coming again.
It is a matter of very solemn import, and concerns you personally, whether you are saved or unsaved.
If you will open your Bible at the last chapter of the Revelation, and read verses 7, 12, and 20, you will see that the Lord Jesus Christ thrice repeats the, promise of His speedy return; “Behold, I come quickly”; “Behold, I come quickly”; “Surely I come quickly”.
Now, my dear converted reader, does this not stir your very heart?
Oh! if we were only awake to the momentous fad, the blessed reality, how very different our lives would be. But what a voice of warning to you, dear unconverted reader! How does this startling fact affect you? You must surely know that Jesus is coming. Ah! though this world despised and rejected Christ, and would not even accept Him when Stephen proclaimed Him as glorified (Acts 7), yet God has a company on earth now who own Him as Lord and Christ. And all His own blood-washed ones, whose hearts have been touched with His love, are in some little measure able to respond to His love, and also able to respond to this blessed prospect, and say, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
Now may I, in love for your precious soul, ask this question—
“Are You Ready,”
should Jesus come tonight? Perhaps your father and mother and all the other members of your family are ready, and know they would be taken to be with Himself for ever. And you? Ah! what about you? Left! —left for judgment. Why will you not avail yourself of God’s salvation, which is so free and so full? He says (see Rev. 21:66And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. (Revelation 21:6)), “I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely”.
Could words be more simple and plain, or terms more easy?
Why, God’s salvation is offered you now for nothing! But “how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?”
This is no light matter. I beseech you, do give it your earnest attention, and rest not until you are able to say with us who are His, “Come, Lord Jesus”.
May God, in His mercy, cause you to hear the warning voice of love NOW, this very moment, so that you may escape to Christ and be saved.
ML 07/10/1904