David Brainerd, the devoted missionary to the American Indians, wrote,
“O, to live on the verge of eternity! Would that I could continually dwell on its borders in studying and following out every avocation.”
Another God-honoring missionary, David Sandeman of China, wrote in his notebook in large letters,
“Eternity! eternity!” and afterward, “Let me act more as if I were now in the next world, looking back to see how I should have acted for the glory of the Lord Jesus.”
How soon time for us may change into eternity by the coming of the Lord! Will it take place this year or today? While none can affirm that it will, none can deny that it may.