A GOOD many years ago a Christian man named Very resided in a town in the State of Massachusetts, America. He was grieved by the godless conduct of his neighbors, who worked on Sundays and week days alike.
One Sunday as he was going to a meeting his neighbors called out from the hayfield, "Well, Father Very, we have cheated the Lord out of two Sundays, anyway.”
“I don't know that," replied the old gentleman; "I don't know; the account is not settled yet.”
Would to God that the thousands of God-forgetting pleasure-lovers would remember that their account with God is not yet settled.
Look back upon your life. Think of the thousands of idle words that have carelessly dropped from your lips. Carelessly they have been dropped, but carefully recorded. Did not the Lord say, "I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment." (Matt. 12:36.) "Every one of us shall give account of himself to God." (Rom. 14:12.) We "shall give account to Him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead." (1 Peter 4:55Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead. (1 Peter 4:5).)
Are you ready to give account? A. J. P.