THE recent terrible tidings of the loss of the “Drummond Castle,” together with her passengers and crew, has thrilled all hearts, and brought sorrow and bereavement to many homes.
Doubtless all on board had heard God’s message of salvation, and like those of old, “some believed... and some believed not” (Acts 28:2424And some believed the things which were spoken, and some believed not. (Acts 28:24)).
Happy, indeed, those who, ere they lay down on that fatal night, to what proved to be their last earthly slumber, could say truthfully―
“Wake I soon, or wake I never,
I give my soul to Christ forever;”
They who were Christ’s, wrapped in His arms of love, could never perish. Death was to them but the messenger that led them home to the presence of their Saviour.
Reader! has this no voice for you? If you had been in that company, who, though they knew it not, were never to reach the port that they were so quickly approaching, how would it have been with you? Would you have gone to be “with Christ, which is far better,” or would you have been “without God and without hope”?
Oh! the horror of an awakening to eternal woe on the one hand; but, on the other, what an awakening to “fullness of joy”!
“Hear the word of God beseeching,
‘Whosoever will’ may come.”
Come to Jesus now; delay no longer. Believe His love, and prove the truth of His own words, “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:3737All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37)).
“Passing onward, quickly passing;
Yes, but whither? whither bound?
Is it to the many mansions
Where eternal rest is found?
Passing onward —
Yes, but whither? whither bound?”
F. E.