He did it once too often! Who? A boy whose terrible mistake launched him into eternity within the twinkling of an eye.
What did he do once too often? He ran to cross the railroad tracks before the whizzing express train. It was his habit to wait until the last moment and then dash across right in front of the oncoming train, laughing as the engine almost brushed his very heels.
But he did it once too often. A miscalculation of the distance, a slip, a stumble, or the extra speed of the behind-schedule train: somehow or other he was caught and in an instant crushed to death.
Where? In the town of Valparaiso, Indiana.
You may do it once too often! Who? You! You may be sane and rational in everyday affairs, but you may be acting insanely towards your far more important soul.
What may you do once too often? Risk your soul! Once too often you may take a chance with your soul—once too often you may assume that there is plenty of time and that it is safe to postpone the most important decision of your life.
You may take that chance once too often. Where? In a land with Bibles on every side, in a land with privileges unparalleled and where no one need perish in the dark or miss an entrance into heaven because they cannot learn the way.
Jesus says, I am the way. Receive Him as your Saviour now. Don’t refuse His love any longer. Remember, you may do it once too often.
“How shall we escape,
if we neglect
so great salvation?”