Three young women had been to a gospel meeting. Afterward they had discussed together what they thought of it. Said one: "I never heard anything like that before! If what they say is true, very certainly we are not saved.”
"No," responded the second; "indeed we are not. What should we do?”
"Let us go back again," said the first speaker. "There's an inquiry meeting; perhaps we could be saved tonight.”
Here the third one broke into the conversation: "Let us go for a walk and forget it, I say.”
After a little more conversation her voice prevailed. They had not gone far, however, before the first one stopped, saying: "I shall go back. I know those people are praying for us. If the blessing they tell of is to be had, I want it. Will you come with me?”
The girl who had before counseled the walk refused. The other two went back to the meeting. Through the mercy of God whose Spirit was leading them, both girls received the Lord Jesus Christ and were saved that night.
Many years have passed. Now one of those young women is still a happy, rejoicing Christian. The second one has passed into the Lord's own presence. The third, the one who had counseled forgetfulness of the Spirit's prodding, is living yet, unsaved. She is known to be a person whose heart has grown so hard that nothing seems to touch it and whose ear is so closed that the pleading voice of mercy never appears to reach it.
Let me warn you, my readers, not to trifle about this important matter.