At the close of a gospel preaching a servant of the Lord said to two young men who had been present: “I should like to pray with you before you leave.” They were both utterly indifferent as to what they had been hearing, but consented at last to kneel down, and while an earnest, heartfelt prayer went up to God for their soul’s salvation, they were both strangely moved. One felt, as he afterwards expressed it, as though a voice said in his ear “If you are not saved tonight you never will be.” He trembled at the thought of where his sins would land him one day if not saved, and before he arose from his knees, by God’s grace, he had come as a lost and guilty sinner to One who was ready and willing to save him. His friend said nothing as to his own feelings, and very little in reply to what the other had to tell him, and so they parted.
A few weeks passed by, weeks of happiness for that newly converted soul, for he was daily learning more about the wonderful Person who had saved him—when one evening be received a hasty summons to go and see his friend, who had been taken dangerously ill. As he entered the room, the young man stretched out his hand and said: “Harry, do you remember that gospel preaching we heard and the prayer afterwards? During that prayer something seemed to tell me that it was my last chance, but I was determined not to give in and become religious. I put it from me, and tried to forget all about it, and I succeeded. But, oh I now I see it was my last chance. I am dying, and I am LOST!”
Reader, if you are still unloved, remember that for one and all there comes a LAST time or hearing the gospel. How important it is then that you should delay no longer, but come to Christ Now.
“There is a time, we know not when;
A point, we know not where;
That marks the destiny of men,
For glory or despair.”
ML 10/18/1903