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become castaway from God when you can
sit upon the throne? Why will ye die mis-
erabfy when eternal life is offered you, and
it will cost you nothing but just willingness
to accept it? "Come, for all things are
now ready" Come, Christ is ready, par
don is ready! The church is ready. Heaven
is ready. You will never find more CON-
yenient season if you should live fifty years
more than this very one. Reject this and
you may die in your sins.
Why do say this? Is it to frighten your
soul, Oh, no. 1t is to persuade you.
show you the peril. show you the escape.
Would not be coward beyond all excuse
if. believing that this great audience must
soon be launched into the eternal world. and
that all who believe in Christ shall be saved,
and that all who reject Christ will be lost
would not be the veriest coward on earth
to hide that truth or to stand before you
with q cold or even a placid manner My
dear brethren, now is the day Of your re-
demption.
It is very certain that you and must
soon appear before God in judgment. We
cannot escape it, The Bible says: Every
eve shall see Him, and they also which
nierced Him. and all the kindreds of the
earth shall wall because of Him." On that
day all our advantages will come up for our
glory or for our rdiscomature-every prayer,
every sermon, every exhortatorY remark,
every reproof, every cau Of grace: and
while the heavens ara rolling away like q
scroll, and the world is being destroyed,
your destiny and my destiny will be an
nounced. Aasl alas! il on that day 1t Is
found that we have neglected these mat
cannot then. We will all be in earnest then.
But no pardon then. No offer of salvation
then. No rescue then. Driven away in our
- lol I'D
Have you ever imagined what will be the
soliloouy Of the soul on that day unpar-
doned, as it looks back upon It's past Hfes
s'Oh," says the soul, 81 had glorious Sab
bathsl There was one Sabbath in autumn
when was invited to Christ. There was
Sabbath morning when Jesus stood and
spread out His arms and invited me to His
holy heart. refused Him. have destroyed
myself. have no enc else to blame. Ruin
complete. Darkness Implying, deep, eter-
nal am lost! Notwithstanding all the
am lost! Oh, Thou long suffering Lord God
Almighty, I am lost! Oh, day Of Judgment,
I am lost! Oh, father, mother, brother,
sister, child in glory, I am lostp And then
as the tide goes out your soul goes out with
it-farther from God, farther from happi-
ness, and hear your voice fainter and faint
er, "Lost Lost! Lostl Lost! LostF' Q ye
dying, vet immortal menl seek the Lord
while he may be found"
But want you to take the hint OF the
text that have no time to dwell on-the
hint that there is time when BE cannot be
found. There was q man in this city, eighty
years of age, who said to clergyman who
came in, @"Do you think that a man at
eighty years Of age can get pardonedY' "Oh,
yes" said the clergyman. The old man
said: II can't; when was twenty years Of
age-I am now eighty years-the spirit of
God came to my soul, and I felt the i'm
portance Of attending to these things but I
put it off. Irejected God, and siuce then I
have had no feeling" "Well" said the
minister, "wouldn't you like to have me
pray with you?" YES" replied the old
inau, "but it will do no good. You can
pray with me if you like to-"
The minister knelt down and prayed. and
commended the mans soul to God. It
seemed to have no effect upon him. After
awhile the last hour Of the mans life came,
and through his delirium spark Of intelli-
gence seemed to fash, and with his last
breath he said. "l shall never be forgivenp
70 seek the Lord while He may be found