MOST of our readers know that in cold weather to keep us warm is dug out of the earth usually many feet below the surface. In digging out the coal they frequently leave large masses like pillars to support the earth above, or the miners would be all crushed to death. When a coal mine is exhausted and about to be closed, the owner, wishing to get all he can, takes away as many oi these pillars as he thinks he can do with safety to his men, and sometimes he takes away too many, and then, as you can easily imagine, the earth above sinks in, and, if the pit is very deep, anything that may be on the surface is swallowed up.
Well, not long ago a family who was living over a coal mine, noticed that their little garden was sinking! Just think what a position to be in—in danger every moment, and all day long, and all night long, of being swallowed up alive, of plunging all at once into a terrible abyss, crushed, mangled, and suffocated far, far down in a dark and horrible pit!
And yet, terrible as this fate would be, it is nothing compared with what awaits all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior.
“When they shall say, Peace and safety then sudden destruction shall come upon them.” The Lord will first come into the air, (1 Thess. 4) and take His people away from the earth, and soon after that, “sudden destruction” comes on those who have rejected Christ.
He may come tonight, tomorrow, at any moment, so you see, if you don’t believe in Jesus, you are just like the people who were living in that house with nothing between, them and “sudden destruction"—no refuge, no support, no safety.
And, what is most strange, these people had been warned that they were in danger, and yet, until they actually saw the garden sinking into the pit, they took no heed. Have you not been warned again and again in “Messages of Love”? Of course, you have. Will you be like these foolish people who waited till the destruction came before they believed the warning? I hope not.
You will be glad to hear that they had just time to escape. When they saw the earth sinking, they heeded the alarm, and catching up such things as were at hand, they all rushed out of doors and away from the fearful pit. They had gone only a few feet away when they saw their house turn right over and plunge roof foremost down into the abyss, followed by a mass of rocks and stones and earth, sufficient to crush it all to pieces! O, what an escape!
And, dear young reader, you have just time to escape from the fearful judgments that are coming upon this world, which will sink all who have not put their trust in Jesus into the lake of fire, from which none ever escape. The way to do so is to go at once to Jesus. You know it is written, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31).
“Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out.” John 6:3737All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37). Won’t you believe Him? I hope you will, for then you will be safe, perfectly safe in an everlasting salvation through the precious blood of Christ.
ML-02/29/1920