Some time since a copy of the Gospel Magazine "Echoes of Grace" was subscribed for and sent to one in a far west town, hoping for eternal blessing to the one who had not been seen by the sender for fifty years or more.
"Echoes of Grace" was returned to the Bible Depot as "not wanted" and the subscriber notified. He at once wrote his old-time friend and school-mate, telling him of the serious consequences of rejecting the Gospel of God's Grace, and the sorrow to his own heart caused by the knowledge of such rejection.
His letter received no reply, but shortly afterward a telegram came from a son, saying his father was stricken down suddenly, when in the best of health, and died shortly after the stroke—another warning of the uncertainty of this life, and the need of knowing a Savior now.
Dear reader, you are now here; Time is now yours to prepare for eternity;
Have you accepted God's love-gift a Savior-Christ the Lord; being thus "justified freely by His grace"; or are you trampling that love and grace under foot in indifference. Be not deceived: this life is fleeting and may be snuffed out in an instant, and then, a never ending eternity, whose ages will roll on and on, and on; and you; where will you spend it? Either with the Christ you have accepted as your Savior here, and to share His joy in a scene whose glory will eclipse the brightness of the Sun, where no sin can enter, no sickness, sorrow, pain nor death: where God will wipe all tears away, and the Lamb that was slain will be the glorious object of the united worship of the redeemed through an eternity of perfect bliss.
Or else with Satan, who has deceived and led you to reject God's love, as told out on Calvary's cross to all mankind. With him, who is a liar and the father of lies, deceiving by them his willing dupes, to be carried with him from light to darkness, down, down, down into the depths of an eternity of woe, where will be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, and as the eternal ages roll on, no hope of light, or mitigation of sorrow, pain and woe.
Dear reader, another thought; another and most wonderful event may take place before your death; Christ is Coming. Dear believer, you who have accepted His love and taken Him to be your Savior, He will soon appear and you will be caught up with Him to glory, and your sorrows will be ended in eternal joy. But poor, dear, unbeliever, you will be left behind to share the awful judgment of a Christ-rejecting world (1 Thess. 4:14-18; 214For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18Wherefore comfort one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:14‑18) Thess. 1:8, 9).
"Behold now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation.”
“How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation.”