WHAT is there after death? is the great question uppermost in the minds of many in the present day.
The pleasure-loving worldlings seek the answer from infidelity and skepticism, and fain would persuade themselves that there is nothing after death, but conscience makes cowards of them all, for when, as they think, the question has been fully answered and disposed of, again and again there is forced upon them the solemn fact, that there is something to follow after death. Why do the stout-hearted quake in the presence of death if there is nothing beyond? Why should terror seize the boastful infidel, as the King of Terrors approaches, if he only comes to enfold his victim in his arms, and lull him into an eternal sleep? Ah! however deadened man’s conscience may be, the moment comes when he feels he must meet God, the God against whom he has sinned, the God upon whom he has turned his back.
Reader, will you not face that question today? Deceived and duped by the devil you may have been, but let us take you kindly by the hand and tell you plainly that there is something after death, for the Word of God declares―
AFTER DEATH THE JUDGMENT;
while at the same time we tell you how you may escape that judgment which you deserve.
Why should you be so foolish as to seek to shut your eyes to this solemn fact? nay, rather look it full in the face, and see how you stand in relation to it. Do you tremble at the thought of having to meet it? Then listen while we tell you that there has been One in this world who came into it in order that He might bear the judgment which was due to us as sinners, and set us forever free from the penalty which our sins deserved. “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
Sin must be judged by a righteous God, and the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life, and to this end He gave His Son, that both death and judgment having been undergone by Him, eternal life might righteously be God’s blessed gift to all who believe on Him. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”
E. E. N.