"Conscience" and "Heart"

As to the distinction between "conscience" and heart," the affections are in the heart, and the conscience is my responsibility for right and wrong. You may have natural feelings moved like the women of Jerusalem beating their breasts because someone was going to be put to death; but what detects the work of God is when these two go together. You may meet with natural conscience alone, which is much like Judas, who went and hanged himself. God is light and love, and if He reveals Himself, you need have both. Where the light comes and deals with the conscience, the love attracts the heart, and both are moved. Thus Peter went to Christ and said, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord." Why did he go to Christ at all? So I say, "I am a guilty sinner," when the light comes in; and where the work is of God, it is accompanied by the attraction of love.

—J.N.D.

Yet There is Room

"The time is short." Eternity is long. "Today if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts."

"I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely."

God's house is filling fast—
   Yet there is room.
Some guest will be the last—
   Yet there is room.
Yes, soon salvation's day
   For you will pass away;
Then grace no more will say,
   Yet there is room.