“Many and many a soul has been lost by listening to Satan telling it to wait for a more convenient season, and so putting off repentance till it was forever too late.
“But God’s time is always now; ‘Behold now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation!’ Come now—this hour, this moment—my dear child, and he will fulfill to you his gracious promise, ‘Him that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out.’”
“Papa, are you ordering me?”
“No, my child, I am entreating you. Jesus entreats you; ‘Son, daughter, give me thine heart.’ He says, ‘Behold I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him and he with me.’
“Open the door of your heart to him now, my child, lest he should turn away and never knock there again.”
“Does he ever do that, papa, before people die?” she asked in an awed tone.
“Yes, he says, ‘My Spirit shall not always strive.’ Of some he says, ‘Ephraim is joined to his idols; let him alone,’ and that sentence may go forth years before death comes. Of Esau it is said, ‘He found no place of repentance, though he sought it with tears.’
“‘There is a time, we know not when,
A point we know not where,
That marks the destiny of men,