I SUPPOSE you have heard someone call for help, and perhaps you have had to call for help yourself, and you can remember how glad you were when help came.
It was a hot starry night on Island of St. Vincent, and a great crowd of men and women, and boys and girls had gathered to hear the gospel in Dickson Village. I think all of them had heard the gospel many times before, and I know some of them had accepted Jesus and truly loved Him. But many were at the meetings who still were lost and needed a Saviour. Do you need the Saviour, or is He your own Saviour? It is strange to see boys and girls come to meetings week after week still unsaved, and still the Saviour waits for them, and yet sad to say some of them never come, because I suppose they never feel their need. But right in the middle of that meeting at Dickson Village somebody needed help in a hurry, and wasn't at all ashamed to shout for it. I wish I could tell you that it was somebody that wanted Jesus to save them, but it wasn't that. A little boy had been standing outside, for there wasn't room inside. The night was dark, and he wasn't looking too carefully where he was going when suddenly he dropped quickly down into a big pit about 15 feet deep. I suppose I would have broken my leg if I had fallen down like that, but those boys are very nimble on their feet, and can climb and jump better than we can. But no sooner did he land with a thump in the bottom than we heard a cry for "Help!" It must have seemed very dark down there, and he wanted to get out in a hurry, and so we didn't blame him at all for calling "Help," and calling it as loudly as he could. In a moment help was at hand, and quicker than you could think he was out again, and the meeting went on.
But how it. did make me think! There were many souls in that meeting on their way to eternity, and many of them know where they were going. If they slipped suddenly into hell and then shouted for help, would they get out again? No, it, would be too late then. Jesus wanted to save them that very night, and I hope some of them were saved. But how awful it must be to find that you have slipped, without a moment's warning, into an eternal hell—with no way out! Call for help now! Yes, just now, in the presence of God own yourself a sinner and take Jesus as your Saviour, and you will he saved and on your way to heaven.
Messages of the Love of God 11/16/1952