A youth at one of the large ironworks in Sheffield was some time ago accidently thrown on a red-hot armor-plate. When he was rolled off by his fellow workmen it was doubtful if he could live, as nearly all one side of him was burned to the hone. His workmates cried out, “Send for the doctor,” but the poor suffering lad cried, “Never mind sending for a doctor; is there anyone here who can tell me how to get saved? My soul has been neglected, and I am dying without God. Who can help me?” Although there were three hundred men round him, not one could tell him the way to salvation, and after twenty minutes of untold agony he died as he had lived.
One who saw this accident and heard the cries of the dying lad said, “I have heard the cries ever since, and wished I could have stooped down and pointed him to Jesus, but my life closed my lips.”
What a lesson to those who read this — a lesson to young and old who are not saved. In these fast closing days, some people are getting harder and harder, send trying to set God at defiance.
Reader, whether young or old, if not saved, remember that the day is coming when you will have to give an account of all your deeds to God! Your conscience may he asleep amid all the fading pleasures of this world, but the day is coming when it will all end. I was told once that we should enjoy life to the full, and enjoy the pleasures of this world while we were in it. Alas, what is time compared to eternity? The joys of this world are short lived, and Satan is doing his best to plunge your never-dying soul to an eternity of woe. No time to repent after this life.
One man told me not long ago, “I shall wait until I am on my death-bed.” How the devil rejoices to hear someone speak like that. You may be taken into eternity without a moment’s notice, or like that young lad, die in agony with no time to repent.
Oh, be saved before it is too late; come believing just as you are, and He will save you. “It is appointed unto man once to die, but after this the judgment” (Heb. 9:2727And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27)).
T. C. R.