READING in Gospel Gleanings last month about the postman, led me to search out in the Bible one of God's letters to you which I fear in some cases has been waiting a very long time to be delivered.
Our old friend, the postman, does not care to wait long after he has knocked at our doors, does he? No, if we haven't a letterbox, he likes us to fetch them at once, or he must go away without delivering them. Unlike God, Who is still patiently waiting, he hurries on to other people, who will be only too glad to welcome him., But God will not wait forever. His Messenger must someday sorrowfully turn away, with the same feelings that led the Lord Jesus to say of Jerusalem, "How often would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.”
Now here is a very beautiful letter for you, full of love and tenderness. Do please take it at once. It tells of a free gift for you; you will find it in the third chapter of John and the sixteenth verse.
Please remember it is all for you—I don't, of course, know what your name is, but you can insert it in place of the 4th, 5th and 14th words of that verse, and so make it really and truly your own.