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 28:24).
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;”
or in the words of Scripture, “Whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s” (Rom. 14:8).
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”!
But God is “not willing that any should perish” (2 Peter 3:9). Even now, though you have long neglected His call, He waits to save you.
“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 6:37).
“To you is the word of this salvation sent” (Acts 13:26).
“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.