One evening I was inviting the passers-by to come into a hall where a servant of God was telling
"Of a Savior's love and a home above,
And a peace that all might know.”
Among the number to whom I spoke was a young man. His answer was that he had no time to come in! He was very busy canvassing for an insurance society.
The immense difference between his business and mine struck me at once. I said to him: "You are very busy insuring people in case of death. We are, by the grace of God, insuring sinners for life, for all eternity.”
This busy young man is only a sample of a large majority in the world. Perhaps you who read this are among the number. Men are very busy thinking of this life and planning how best to secure their own interests. One insures in an accident insurance society, in case he should be injured. He insures his house and furniture in a fire insurance society, and himself in a life insurance society. I know a man who was insured in a burial society by his parents before he was seven days old.
How very eager men are to secure their own interests and comforts in this poor sin-stained world! Yet how exceedingly careless they are in view of eternity! Reader, have you ever looked your ETERNITY in the face?
The desert of Sahara is 3000 miles long by 1000 miles broad. No sane man would ever think of setting himself the task of counting the grains of sand which make up that immense desert. Yet if each grain counted as a million years, and you lived through that incomprehensible stretch of time a million times over, you would only have begun eternity; you would be no nearer the end than when you began.
If my reader is saved, what an unspeakable happiness to look forward to—an eternity of joy in heaven with Christ! But if unsaved, how terrible to spend eternity with the devil and his angels! There, in the blackness of darkness, is that awful twofold occupation: weeping in unquenchable grief, and gnashing of teeth in the bitterness of despair.
Oh, reader, pause and trust in what the Son of God says: "He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." John 5:2424Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. (John 5:24).