THE last day of the year 1916 has come, and who can tell where we shall be when 1917 will have run its course?
Our time is spent in coming and going, meeting and parting, joy and sorrow, pleasure and disappointment—so each year comes and passes away.
Have you spent the past year for God, or has it been wasted? We must let the past go, and not mourn over it, but press forward, just as the horses in our picture are doing. Are we as anxious to reach our destination as they? They know what awaits them at the end of the journey. Do you, my dear, young friend, know what is awaiting you?
Each one who is a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ knows something of the joy which is before him—the untold joy of being forever with the Lord in glory.
That which awaits those who have not accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour is untold misery, and dwelling forever with the devil and his angels.
May not one of our dear readers put off a moment longer accepting God’s free gift of salvation through Christ. He wants you to know and believe the love He has shown to you in giving His Son for you, so that you might dwell forever in that glory above with all the redeemed, singing with them, the new song to the Lord, “THOU ART WORTHY .. . FOR THOU WAST SLAIN, AND HAST REDEEMED US TO GOD BY THY BLOOD.” (Rev. 5:99And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; (Revelation 5:9).)
ML 12/31/1916