The other day, as I was standing at the door of a hall, where a friend of mine was preaching the gospel, a little boy came up and said: “Please, sir, may I go in?”
“No, my boy,” I replied; “impossible to let you in, there is no more room.”
“But I was in there last Friday evening, and the Friday before. I am a regular one.”
“Very likely, my boy; but today you cannot go in.”
“But you said last Friday afternoon, ‘There will be a meeting for boys and girls at the hall on Friday evening, at seven.’ Why can’t I go in?”
“Look here, my boy,” I said, showing him my watch, “it is twenty mites past seven, so you are too late. The room is full, and your being there last Friday does not take you in tonight.”
Now, dear young friends, who read this paper, I would have you remember that soon the last seat in God’s house will be occupied, and it will then be too late for you to come and knock.
“Now,” God says, “is the day of salvation.”
If you still refuse God’s invitation you may, like this little boy, be found at the door, knocking; but it will be of no avail. There is only one thing that can cleanse you from your sins, and that is the blood of Christ, for we read, “The blood of Jesus Christ His (God’s) Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7).)
ML 05/03/1959