A YOUNG lady was about to leave her home for D. in 'South America. Two weeks before sailing, she called on a friend who was sick, and in course of conversation, he asked if she ever thought about her soul, and where she would spend eternity? Her reply was,
"I am young yet, I have many years before me, I must enjoy the pleasures of this world, and then I will give a thought as to my soul's future."
The time came for her departure, as she said "good-bye" to a young man of her acquaintance, she added,
"Perhaps we shall never meet again."
The words were lightly spoken and lightly received, but many a true word is spoken in jest, and three days after the schooner had sailed, news came that she had been run down by an outward bound steamer and sunk immediately after the collision. A few passengers were saved, the others went down in the ill-fated vessel, and among them was the young lady, who, as she thought, had many years to live, and whose soul's welfare was entrusted to that uncertain future.
Salvation neglected in time means damnation for eternity.
Dear young reader, why will you still refuse God's gracious offer of pardon? Be not deceived by Satan. Those promises of long life and good days, come only from him who is a lier from the beginning.
This present moment is the only one you can call your own. Now is salvation within your reach,
Tomorrow your opportunity to be saved may have gone! gone! forever! What then of the eternity that lies ahead. Dare you enter it as you are—unfit for God, unprepared?
Which will you choose: God's NOW, or Satan's TOMORROW?
Messages of God’s Love 9/9/1934