undecided and halting between two choices. Reader, are you that
you are careless! Christ is coming to judge the world — and you are unprepared! Time hurries on, and you are not ready for eternity. Oh, awake to a sense of your danger — and repent this day! Awake and call upon your God before it is too late to pray. Awake and seek the Lord Jesus Christ before the door is shut — and the day of wrath begins. Alas, you may be thought wise and clever in this world — but living as you do — you act the part of a madman!
2. But perhaps this address has fallen into the hands of one who is undecided and halting between two choices. Reader, are you that man? Then remember these words: "The night is far spent, and the day is at hand!" What are you doing? You hear, you listen, you wish, you desire, you mean to, you intend to, you hope, you resolve — but you go no further! You see the ark — but you will not go in. You see the bread of life — but you do not eat it. You wait. And yet times marches on. The devil is saying over you, "I shall have this soul before long!" Oh, come out from the world, and linger no more! Take up the cross. Cast away vain excuses. Confess Christ before men. Beware, I say, lest you make up your mind too late. Again I say, beware!
3. But perhaps this address has fallen into the hands of some true believer. Reader, are you that man? Then remember these words: "The night is far spent, and the day is at hand." I ask you to live as if you believed the words we have been considering, and to show the world you think them true. The nearer you draw to home — the more wakeful you ought to be. The more you realize the second personal coming of the Lord Jesus — the more lively ought your Christianity to be.
Ah, reader, it is but too true, as Legh Richmond said on his deathbed, "We are but half awake! We are but half awake!" The best of us need to have our hearts stirred up by way of remembrance. Let us rub the sleepy eyes of our mind and look the speedy coming of our Master full in the face. Let the time past suffice us to have been drowsy and