By The Editor Earth and Heaven
NOVEMBER. ―The Spring has gone, the Summer also, and the Autumn dies in the cold arms of Winter. And you may have passed your spring of life unsaved, and sinned throughout the summer of opportunity. And soon the autumn of God’s long-suffering mercy may die for you in the cold arms of death. “The soul that sinneth it shall die.”
A young man died in the summer of his days. He had drunk deeply of the cup of pleasure; yet in his dying moments he denied his God, and, reading novels to the last, passed into eternity.
A man in the autumn of life, seated one day amid his children playing cards, was suddenly seen to bend forward, white and still, and when they touched him and gazed upon him, they found that he was dead.
How different was the end of one whose hair was white with the winter of her life! She was eighty years old, and peaceful and happy as she neared eternity. She said, “I have seen the gates; they are so beautiful; I am almost home.” Her face shone with the radiance of the home to which she was going. Oh! my reader, are you ready for eternity?
The following article, “Can a Christian ever be lost,” is an extract from a printed address I gave some years ago now. I have been requested to reprint it, so I am putting it in this month’s “Message from God,” trusting that it may confirm the faith of some, and make many long to have assurance in Christ.