In these closing days of God’s grace, we see on every hand, and feel the carelessness and indifference of boys and girls toward God’s offer of salvation. The young minds are taken up with that which Satan is holding out to them, and closing their ears to God’s Word.
“He that hath an ear to hear, let him bear.”
God loves you too well, to allow you to be banished from His presence for eternity. He therefore sends another cry of warning, dear ones.
If today, you were laid upon a bed of sickness, and you were told by your doctor that it was only a matter of a few hours, and all would be over; or if the Lord should come for His redeemed ones, where would eternity find your soul? This is a most searching question my friends.
A few months ago, a merchant was attacked suddenly by internal disease, death came on with rapid pace, all that money could procure or friends devise, was sought to no avail. Physicians from the city were consulted, but no relief could be given. How did death find him, dear ones. It found him surrounded by all the comforts and luxuries a large and increasing income could give. But O! that was only outward life; he was following the devises of his own evil heart, and walking after the course of an ungodly world.
During the time of his short illness, he steadily refused to see any who would speak to him of a Saviour’s love. He had closed his ears and heart against God and His Word.
A few moments before he died, he turned his eyes to his wife, and said,
“Is life so soon over? Is it so soon over?”
Was this not a very sad ending? “After death the judgment.”
O! dear unsaved soul, may God awaken you.
ML 09/27/1925