In Eastern cities the gate is closed at sunset, and after that you cannot enter. A party of travelers, including several ladies and children, arrived at one of these gates a few minutes after sunset, and knocking at the closed gate, offered a sum of money to open the gate and let them in. But the answer was,
“Too late, gates once closed, do not open again.”
So it will be, reader, with the gate of salvation. Once closed, it will not open again. See that you are not shut out.
ML 10/01/1939