Ask yourself, what if this night God should require your soul of you and you had not "come"? What if the summons of death finds you still far off, when the precious blood of Christ was ready by which you might have been made nigh? You do not know what a day may bring forth. There are plenty of things besides immediate death which may just as effectually prevent your ever coming at all if you do not come now. This may be your last opportunity for coming.

Tomorrow the call may seem rather less urgent, and the "other things entering in" may deaden it, and the grieved Spirit may withdraw and cease to give you even your present inclination to listen to it. You may drift on and on, farther and farther from the haven of safety (into which you may enter now if you will) until it is out of sight on the horizon. Then it may be too late to turn the helm, and the current may be too strong When the storm of mortal illness at last comes, you may find that you are too weak mentally or physically to rouse yourself, even to hear, much less to come. What can one do when fever and exhaustion are triumphing over mind and body? Do not risk it. Come now. Jesus is saying to you today, "Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out."

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