The Door Barred

A WOMAN in Glasgow got into difficulties. Her rent was a due, but she had no money for the landlord, and she knew very well that he would turn her out if she did not satisfy his claim. In despair, she knew not what to do. A Christian man heard of her distress, and came to her door with money to help her. He knocked, but, although he thought he could hear someone inside, yet the door was not opened. He knocked again, but still there was no response. The third time he knocked, but that door still remained locked and barred against him. Sometime after he met this woman in the streets, and told her how he had gone to her house to pay her rent, but could not get in. “Oh, sir,” she exclaimed, “was that you? Why, I thought it was the landlord, and I was afraid to open the door!” So Christ is knocking at the door of the sinner’s heart. He comes, not to demand, but to give! “The gift of God is eternal life.”