BEHOLD, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.” (Matt. 22.)
How proud you would be if the President of the United States should send you a letter inviting you to the White House to a marriage feast. You would want all your friends to know it, and you would expect great things. You would surely see a fine house elegantly furnished, and a great table would be spread before you. You would be sure to go if you could, would you not? Now God has, at much cost, provided a great supper for you, dear children, and He now, in His letter, (the Bible) asks you to come just as directly as if He were to send you a letter through the Post-office. Mark the cost of God’s great supper! He gave His only Son to die, that you might come to Him, and be saved. Yes, when God gave His own dear Son, He gave up the dearest object in heaven. Oh, do not attempt to compare any other with Him, no, not even the angels.
God first sent an invitation to the Jews, to come to His feast, but the solemn thing was, they rejected it. God is now sending out the blessed message by His servants to all, even the poor, the maimed, the halt and blind, “for all things are now ready.” Hark! do you not hear God saying to you, “Come, for all things are now ready?’ God earnestly entreats you to come and be saved because Jesus has died and shed His precious blood, you can now come and receive forgiveness of sins through believing in Him. Oh, how I would beg of you to come at once, for soon, and no telling how soon, the last seat will be filled, and then there will be no more chance for you. May it not be said of any of the readers of this little paper—
“Ye would not believe, Nor Christ receive, And now, eternally lost!”
Give ear, dear one, still the call goes out to you.
“Come hear the gospel sound—
‘Yet there is room!’
It tells to all around,—
‘Yet there is room.’
His only Son He gave,
He’s righteous now to save
All who on Him believe.”—
‘Yet there is room’.”
F. E. H.
ML 08/20/1899