Peter was standing on the platform of a railway station waiting for his train to come along. It was a few minutes late and he was looking this way and that, greatly interested in the other trains and in the coming and going of the people nearby. Suddenly he heard one of the station officials shout, “ATTENTION!”
“Who can he be shouting at?” Peter said to himself. “Someone may be in danger; I wonder what the trouble is.” Again came the shout, louder than ever, “ATTENTION!”
This time Peter looked on either side of him, wondering to whom the call was directed, when suddenly a strong hand grasped him by his coat collar and dragged him back. Just then a locomotive came whizzing past so close that he would have been caught and dragged along had he not been pulled away.
“Thank you, sir, for saving my life!” “But did you not hear me shouting at you?”
“Yes, sir, I heard you shout ‘Attention’ but I didn’t see any danger and I thought it meant somebody else.”
Maybe you wonder how a locomotive could be so near, and yet Peter didn’t see or hear it. There were so many other things, and so many other noises about him, that the danger came on him without his noticing it.
“ATTENTION!”
This word is directed to you, my reader, and don’t take it for anybody else. You are in danger of losing your soul eternally. Hear these warning notes of God’s Word:
This message is not for the boy next door, or for the girl around the corner—it is for you! Have your sins been washed in the blood of Jesus, or are you exposed to the coming judgment?
ML 05/14/1950