A YOUNG woman, who had been away some time in London, had come home for a short holiday. I was very much struck by her changed appearance.
Instead of her neat plain attire, she was dressed in all the latest fashions. I asked her how she liked being at home, but in rather a disdainful tone she answered, “I want to see life, and enjoy it.”
Ah! reader, do you want to see life and enjoy it.
Stop for a moment, and let me ask, Have you ever thought of death? This young woman was asked if she had ever thought of it, but her face plainly told me she did not want to hear about that, nor to hear that God was offering through the death of His Son, life, salvation, and peace to her, but she walked away without showing any concern about the things of eternity.
How like many lovers of pleasure, who think of nothing beyond this life! When death is talked of, they shrink and shudder from the thought.
May God, by His Spirit, cause the reader to pause and reflect!
“For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (James 4:1414Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. (James 4:14)). Away, where? In eternity. Where? With Christ or Satan, heaven or hell, blessed or cursed, in happiness or misery, darkness or light, anguish or joy?
May God give the reader to decide now, and that for Christ. Then he will be able to sing-
“Oh, happy day, that fixed my choice
On Thee, my Saviour and my God;
Well may this glowing heart rejoice,
And tell its raptures all abroad.
Happy day! happy day!
When Jesus washed my sins away.”
A. E. B.