A SERVANT of God was returning home one dark night, after proclaiming the precious gospel in a neighboring village. Owing to a dense fog, he lost the road, but wandered on hoping to gain the right track, when he heard someone shouting after him. He stopped and, listened, when he heard the words, “Come back, come back!” uttered in the most earnest tones.
Presently he discerned a glimmer from a lantern, and next saw a figure approaching, crying out, “Come back, come back!” Heaving a sigh of relief, the caller exclaimed, “Thank God! a little farther, sir, and you would have been killed; you were walking straight for the chalk-pit.”
Unsaved reader, yet another call has reached you. Hurrying on you surely are, not to some dangerous chalk-pit, but to a never-ending hell. Unperceived its mouth yawns ahead of you, and earnestly we call, “Come back!” You may think the warning unnecessary, and that the preachers and writers are alarmists who see visions of judgment when judgment is afar off; but remember God has said, “He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.” You may be the next to be
“SUDDENLY DESTROYED.”
You may have heard of a man dropping down dead only the other day; and who knows but that death may pay you an unexpected visit and suddenly cut you off; and if unsaved, your case would be
“WITHOUT REMEDY.”
Today the offer of salvation, through Christ, is made to you. Today the voice of mercy calls you back from the paths of sin into which you have wandered. “Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart.”
E. E. N.