GOD speaketh once, yea, twice, yet men perceiveth it not.” God had been speaking in a certain town in the States, where one of His servants was telling out the good news of salvation, in the early part of this year. A man had started from home in the early morning to catch the train leaving at 7:35. As he neared the railway crossing he heard the train leaving the station, so he waited there, thinking he could jump on one of the cars as it passed by. He made the attempt, but missed his hold and fell down between the wheels. They carried his mutilated body to the hospital, and amputated both of the poor fellow’s legs, but before four o’clock he had passed into eternity.
Where would you be, dear reader, if before four o’clock you were to enter eternity?
On the day that he was buried, a boy who was at school at a neighboring town started in the afternoon with some other lads to skate home, a distance of about six miles. When within a mile or so of home, he came to a place where the ice was thin, and, not being aware of his danger, he skated into six feet of water, and was taken out DEAD.
This is the way in which God often speaks, but, alas! “man perceiveth it not.” Beware, unsaved reader! Times without number He has spoken to you, as you know full well, but you have refused to heed His warning voice. Once again He speaks to you; have a care lest this should be the last time, and you should wake up in eternity to find that salvation rejected was damnation accepted.
“Behold, NOW is the accepted time; behold, NOW is the day of salvation.” “See that ye refuse not him, that speaketh,” the rather say―
“Just as I am―without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me,
And that Thou bid’st me come to Thee,
O Lamb of God, I come.”
E. E. K.