A SHORT time ago I was asked to see a dying man―a friend suddenly cut down. There he lay upon his bed, almost unconscious, and within a few days of his end. His brother was holding his hand, and said to him, “Mr.― has come to see you,” but the dying man made no answer. I then said, “The Lord Jesus is with you.”
He opened his eyes and said, “Yes, He is,” and immediately relapsed into his dying dozing. As I stood on one side of his bed and his brother on the other, the brother said, “This is a solemn warning as to death-bed repentances. If― had not found Christ for his Saviour when in health, he could not have sought Him now.”
On my relating this to a Christian friend, he said, “My brother is a Christian, who has practiced as a physician for more than thirty years, and he says that he has never all that long time, so far as he knows, seen a true repentance on a death-bed. Persons are too faint, too feeble, too suffering to turn to God.”
What a terrible testimony is this!
Reader, how is it with you? “Now is the day of salvation.”