"The year of our Lord,"—A.D. 1954. What a privilege to every one who now reads this page to have lived in what is called "the year of our Lord"! Ever since A.D. 1, the "grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord" have been freely offered to all who receive the Savior.
But I question you, my reader: To what degree has 1954 been to you "the year of our Lord"? Have you in the year now nearly gone acknowledged Jesus Christ as Lord? Has He been given first place in your heart and life?
Present possession of eternal salvation is a wonderful blessing—truly "the gift of God." Has this been your portion in 1954? If not, it can be. In the little while remaining of this "year of our Lord" you can enter into the joy of knowing Him "whom to know is life eternal.”
To receive into your own heart the blessed Savior of sinners and to confess Him as Lord takes but, a moment. No novitiate of days, nor months, nor years is required. Yet once you have received Him, your own response of love will gladly yield to Him every moment of the time that He in His wisdom may give you.
A.D. 1954 is nearly gone. What have you done with it? Or—most important—what have you done with "Jesus, the Son of the living God"? Even the world, lost and on its rapid way to destruction, acknowledges His title to the fleeting years of time: Anno Domini, "the year of our Lord.”
Oh, my reader, let not these closing hours of 1954 leave you with "no hope, and without God in the world." TIME is fast slipping away, and ETERNITY is just ahead. Your only hope of everlasting joy is JESUS, the LORD.