WHILE a young man was waiting on the edge of the platform for his train to come up, he began to reflect in a dreamy way on what he had lately seen and heard, living over again in memory the scenes through which he had passed. He was startled from his idle musing by a sharp cry from one of the officials of
“Attention!”
“Who can the fellow be shouting at?” he said to himself. “Someone needs rousing, or is in difficulty or danger.”
Again the call—
“Attention!”
This time the man looked on either, side of him, wondering to whom the summons was addressed, when he felt a hand upon the collar of his coat, and was suddenly dragged back. Just then an engine came whizzing past so closely that he would have been caught and dragged along by it but for the timely aid of the bystander.
“Thank God for preserving my life!” exclaimed the young man fervently (who, I am happy to say, was a Christian). “Ah!” thought he, “that is the way with many who are strangers to Christ, and in danger of the great judgment. They seem to think the warnings of God’s Word are intended for someone else, —greater sinners, it may be, than they are. ‘They have ears and hear not,’ or if they do hear with their ears, do not ‘understand with their heart.’ How wise are they who give to the gospel call attention.”
And how earnestly we who are Christians should seek to snatch them from danger; as the Apostle Jude wrote, “pulling them out of the fire.”
ML 09/02/1917