A YOUNG man attending the meetings seemed anxious about his soul. I had just trusted Christ as my Saviour. He said to me, “I would do anything, or go anywhere, if I could only get salvation.” I knew enough to say, “You will not get it by ‘doing,’ or any efforts of your own. You must just trust the Lord and believe His word.”
The next time I saw him, he was the same. I warned him of the danger of putting away his convictions, and sometime after he told me, “I am not anxious now.” Soon he plunged into the intoxicating pleasures of a worldly life.
Another companion at the same school, went off to sea. I could not say he had ever decided for Christ. The ship was wrecked; he and two more got into a small boat. When they were picked up, he was on his knees, his hands clasped as if in prayer, and he was dead.
I say to you, my dear little friends, Do not put off your salvation.
ML 06/10/1900