THE CONCLUSION

 

NOVEMBER 16

THE CONCLUSION

 
"The harvest is past,
     the summer is ended,
         and we are not saved."     Jeremiah 8:20
 
 
Hitherto, we have had the aged Christian for our companion;
  but this book may be read by an aged sinner,
   and old unbeliever.
 
Ah, there are many such,
  some of whom are uttering these words.
 
 
"Harvest pasted!"   What, did you sleep in harvest?
 
"Summer ended!"    What, have you squandered life away?
 
"We are not saved!"    What, have you neglected the one thing needful?
 
Poor old man!    Poor old woman!
 
What folly you have been guilty of!
What a sin you have perpetrated.
 
You have lived, only to insult God!
You have so lived,  so as to deplore the course
   you have pursued to all eternity.
 
 
But, yet there is hope.
 
If harvest is past, if summer is ended,
   life is not extinct,
   and while there is life there is hope.
 
You may yet be saved.
 
But there is not a moment to be lost.
 
The blood of Jesus will wash out the sins of
   threescore years and ten.
 
The righteousness of Jesus will justify a sinner 
   trembling on the borders of the grave. 
 
The Spirit of God can take away the stony heart,
  and give the heart of flesh, even at the eleventh hour.
 
 
But immediate application is necessary.
 
Cry mightily to God,
   that he would give you his Holy Spirit.
Receive into thy heart God's message of mercy.
Withdraw thy dependence from all,
  and everything, within thee and without thee,
   and depend on Christ alone.
 
 
Jesus still invites thee to come to him.
O linger not!
Jesus is yet willing to receive you.
O delay not one moment!
Yield not to discouragement.
 
Say not,
  "There is no hope for me!" 
 
There is; there is.
There is hope,
  there is mercy for thee,
  if thou seekest it.
 
Seek it at once.
Seek and thou shalt find.
 
 Flee, flee, flee to Jesus!
 
This moment flee!
 
For heavens sake,
   for thy soul's sake, flee!
 
 
"Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 
For every one that asketh receiveth;
and he that seeketh findeth;
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."
                                Luke 11:9-10
 
JAMES SMITH 1869
 
 
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