By:
Edited By Algernon J. Pollock.
SOME years ago, a Frenchman was walking in an agitated manner, backward and forward, on the quay of a seaport town.
A friend asked him what was the matter and he replied, “I have let that vessel go down with a Large consignment of goods, and have not insured them. I am a ruined man.”
He had always received his goods safely, and had grown careless as to insuring them, with this sad result.
We can sympathize with this Frenchman’s terrible position, but there is something infinitely worse. What must be the awful terror of a lost soul, who discovers too late that his last hope of salvation has gone forever, and to recall how often he has he and the following and similar Scriptures: “He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy” (Prov. 29:11He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. (Proverbs 29:1)). To realize that he had put off decision for the Lord till too late―that he had intended to be saved, and did not mean to be lost, or left behind at the coming of the Lord―that he thought he had plenty of time yet, and after all, had slipped through from time to eternity lost, AND LOST forever, will be a terrible reflection.
My unconverted friend, take warning by the man who did not insure his goods, and make sure of your eternal blessing at once.
E. BURT.