LITTLE readers are not very likely to be interested in what are called “railway accidents,” as they take place so often, and are mostly very shocking. But sometimes their very suddenness teaches a lesson. Such is the case with one of which I am about to tell you.
A young man was standing on the platform watching a train move off from the station when something pushed him off the platform down on to the rails beneath. In an instant the ponderous wheels passed over him, crushing him to death. He was just heard to exclaim, “I shall die!” and before another word could be spoken, he, who five minutes before was in health and strength, was gone into eternity—his mangled, lifeless body alone remaining to tell what had been.
What a sudden, shocking death. And the worst of it was, there was no reason to believe that he knew the Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of sinners. He was gone in a moment into eternity, without so much as one cry to Jesus, or one word to show that he had ever believed in Him. Where is he now?
Ah, dear young reader, it is a solemn thing indeed to live without Christ for a single day. Does not this, does not every fatal accident tell you so? Those who live without Jesus, may be called upon to die without Him at any moment, and then, “gone in a moment,” they have no opportunity of believing in Him forever and ever!
Dear reader, either you have believed in Jesus as your own Savior, or you have not; which is it? If you have not, you are as yet unsaved. Can you be content to go on for a single day in this state? Have you not had many opportunities? If you are a reader of “Messages of Love,” you surely have. Who shall tell how long they may last?
Another year has but just begun, are you sure to see the end of it?
May the Spirit of God apply this sad story to your heart and conscience, so that you may be constrained to go at once to Jesus, whose precious blood cleanseth from all sin.
ML-02/08/1920