ONE Sunday evening, in a seaside town, two sailors were present at a gospel meeting in which salvation was preached and offered in Jesus’ name. Both of them were afterwards personally conversed with, and were entreated to seek the Lord while He might be found. Both listened, but only one of them attended to the things spoken. One was wise, and the other foolish. The one who was wise, received Christ; the other, who was foolish, went away rejecting Him, saving. “Not tonight.”
Many have said and done the same thing, and to their everlasting shame and contempt. What thoughts passed through the mind of this man as he left the meeting, no one can say; nor whether he slept comfortably that night after his willful refusal to receive Christ as his Savior or not.
A few days afterward he fell into the sea and was drowned. Where do you think his soul will be? Where do you think yours will be, if this night your soul shall be required of you?
O, dear children, do come to the Lord Jesus, accept Him as your Savior, while it is yet the day of God’s grace. Very soon the Lord Jesus will come and take all who believe on Him, up to be with Himself in the Father’s house; and all who have not taken Him as their Saviour, will be Forever shut out of His presence.
“Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.” 2 Cor. 6:2.
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