THERE are many people who are like the sum which you will see following this sentence. They make a mistake at the very beginning and they never get right to the very end of their lives. Every figure in this answer is wrong,
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because the first figure of it is wrong. Six times seven are not forty but forty-two. So in our life’s journey, unless we begin by taking the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour, every step of our way will be wrong.
O! see to it, dear young friends, that you receive Him at once. Unless you do so you will be wrong all the way, and, alas! you will lead others wrong also. For, remember, you are always doing good or evil to those you meet day by day. You cannot help this. You have an influence on brothers and sisters, schoolmates and friends. Is yours an influence for good? “One sinner destroyeth much good.” He not only destroys himself, but helps others on the wrong road down to perdition. And do not forget this—you may help others down and never be able to help them back again.
It may be that you feel you have been all wrong in your life. Turn then to the Saviour now. He will receive you even as a sinner, for it is still true, “This Man receiveth sinners.”
He will give you a new start altogether. Blotting out your sins by His precious blood, He will give you the Holy Spirit, so that you may walk for His pleasure and His glory.
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