MY DEAR FRIEND
Has it ever struck you that you will (unless you are the Lord’s) one day, sooner or later, have to die, and will have to stand before God? Has any friend spoken to you with regard to your soul? Have you ever given your mind to serious thought about it and your destiny for eternity, where all is fixed? Have you ever read of the rich man in the twelfth chapter of Luke’s Gospel? If not, just try and take in these few words. “And he (Jesus) spake a parable, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully, and he thought within himself saying, What shall I do? because I have no room where to bestow my fruits. And he said, This will I do; I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years, take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee, then—whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?”
And again, in another Gospel we read, “What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” I am not trying to be dramatic, neither am I trying to work on your emotion, but I would ask you to think before you go any farther, and to think seriously. If you read God’s word to you, you will see it there far plainer than I can write it.
You have a soul, and when God calls you what shall your answer be? Will it be a bitter cry of “Too LATE! LOST FOR EVER”? Or will you be able to say, “Saved through the blood of Jesus Christ”? My dear reader, Think! Think! for your own sake, Think! Weigh up in your mind what you have read. On one side, this world’s, goods, they may be large or small-money, pleasure, concerts, theatre, hippodrome, or anything else. On the other side, saved through the blood of Jesus, happiness that this world cannot give, and life everlasting with God and His blessed Son, the Lord Jesus, who died for you. Once again I would ask you, or, rather, God asks you, “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” May God bless you.
Yours very sincerely, A. F. B.