32 THE CONCLUSION

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—an old unbeliever. Ah, there are many such, some of whom are uttering these words.

"The harvest is past!" What! did you sleep in harvest?

"The summer is ended!" What! have you squandered life away?

"And 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—as to deplore the course you have pursued, to all eternity.

But, yet there is hope. If harvest is past, if summer is ended—yet your 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 a hundred years! 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 your heart God’s message of mercy. Withdraw your dependence from all, and everything, within you and without you—and depend on Christ alone.

Jesus still invites you 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 you—if you seek it. Seek it at once. Seek—and you shall find! Flee, flee, flee to Jesus! This moment flee! For your soul’s sake, flee!

"Ask—and it will be given to you;
seek—and you will find;
knock—and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks—receives;
he who seeks—finds; and
to him who knocks—the door will be opened!" Luke 11:9-10