Not long ago a pawn broker in a big city did a most extraordinary thing, In consequence of a wager which he had made, he put up for sale in his shop-window a $500 diamond ring priced at 60 cents.
For five days the ring remained in the window, the ticket attached to it clearly stating that the price was only 60 cents. But no one purchased it. Early and late crowds of people passed and re-passed the shop, but not one among them would purchase an article worth $500 for the small sum of which it was priced.
Stranger still is the fact that something worth vastly more than a million diamond rings is offered, not for a small sum, but absolutely free, Yet many pass it by as if it were hardly worth a thought.
To what am I referring? I refer to the great gift of salvation and eternal happiness, which God is offering “without money and without price” to “whosoever will.”
“He, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.” Isa. 55:11Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. (Isaiah 55:1).
ML 04/09/1961