There are children who play a very dangerous game in large towns like Capetown. They stand on the side of the road and wait till a motor-car approaches. When it is quite close to them they run across the street as near to the car as they can, and the boy who runs closest to the car is considered by the others to be the cleverest. But if they are only a second or two too late, they are knocked down by the car.
Others play with a ball on the street, and if they are busy catching the ball or running after it, a car may come along and run over them.
The first of these games is deliberate madness, the second is thoughtless carelessness, and we hope that the children and young people who read this never play such games.
But there is something which is approaching the world with great rapidity. It is the judgment of God. Can any reader dare to play with that judgment? Will he try to escape that judgment just by a hand's breadth? Will he wait till he is old and just about to die before he turns to God in repentance?
If he decides to do this, perhaps it will be too late. If a child is playing on the street as we have described above, his foot may slip, and then he gets crushed by the car.
If the reader waits longer—for a year or a month or a week or a day, or even an hour—perhaps he will be too late.
Make sure of your safety, young people, at once. There is a place of safety, where the judgment of God has already fallen. It is at the side of Christ, who once bore the judgment for guilty sinners. He shed His precious blood for us, but is now risen and at the right hand of God. Put your faith and trust in Him at once. Do not delay; the game of delay is too dangerous.
Here are some of the things He has done and can do: —
He died for you;
He can cleanse you from your sins in His precious blood;
He is a living Savior;
He can save you from the power of sin, from the power of Satan and from the power of the world;
He can make you happy now and forever.
A. A. E.