A MAN went one day to a distant town on horseback, and while returning in the evening was overtaken by a very severe storm, the rain poured in torrents, and it became very dark, and in crossing the moors he lost his way.
After going for some miles in the fierce storm, not a single star to be seen, and no friendly light in a window, suddenly the gentleman was startled by a vivid flash of lightning, when what was his horror to find that he was galloping along upon the edge of a steep precipice, and both horse and rider might any moment have been dashed to pieces below!
Was the lightning flash a friend or an enemy? Why, a friend, of course, although it gave both man and horse a fright! Now, he saw his danger and was able to escape from it. Right thankful for this peculiar friend.
Perhaps this chapter may come to some little reader like the lightning came to the man, and startle them, but that will not matter so long as it shows them their danger, and leads them to flee to a place of safety.
The wicked Jailer in Acts 16 was dreadfully startled by the earthquake, and came trembling and cried out,
“What must I do to be saved?” He heard the reply,
But in Acts 24 we find that “Felix trembled,” but, foolish man! he put off coming to Christ till a “convenient season,” which never came.
Will you be like the Jailer, tremble and be saved; or like Felix the judge, tremble and be lost? Think the matter carefully over, and then in the light of the Coming Judgment day answer this question.
“Which wilt thou choose,
Which wilt thou lose,
This life or the life to he.”
Which are you going to choose today—Christ or Satan?
ML 01/24/1937