HOW swiftly these young people are flying down the hill-side on their smooth running sled! And others in the distance are speeding down over the steep hill-side also.
This picture brings before us the thought of life’s pathway, for we are all speeding on—yes, speeding on toward eternity. Some—especially the young—may think they are being slowly carried on; but time makes no stops—no delays; it never turns back in its flight; and surely, unerringly, swiftly it is carrying us all with it. Soon for us, time will end. Will it be for you, my reader, an eternity of bliss, when the sands of time have run their course, or an eternity of woe? Is the all-important question, which affects your never-dying soul, settled for you? Has the blood of Jesus made you clean from all your sins, or are you still a stranger to His grace? The sports of childhood will end: the busy cares of later years will come to a close; riches, if you possess them, and the treasures you may have heaped up here, will have to be left behind, for you cannot carry these things out of the world with you. What then?
Oh! delay not longer, I beg of you, if you have not given your heart to Jesus. Guilty, helpless, lost, are the words that are written over against you. What will these sports, these pleasures, these treasures, of earth do for you in that coming day of wrath?
“What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul.” Do not brave that awful day of wrath which is surely coming! Do not allow yourself to be intoxicated with the pleasures of the world, soon to waken up in a place of endless woe! Do not heap up treasures here only to leave them to enter upon that scene where there is bitter wailing and gnashing of teeth!
Come now to Jesus, and lay up treasures which will meet you again in a scene where joy will be full, and where pleasures will last forever!
ML 02/15/1903