A man rushed into a railroad station one morning. Almost breathlessly, he asked the ticket agent; "When does the 8:01 train leave?"

"At 8:01," was the answer.

"Well," the man replied, "it's 7:59 by my watch, 7:57 by the town clock, and 8:04 by the station clock. Which am I to go by?"

"You can go by any clock you wish," said the agent; but you can't go by the 8:01 train, for it has already left.

God's time is moving forward hour by hour, minute by minute. There are multitudes who seem to think that they can live by any schedule they choose and that in their own time they can turn to God.

But His time is the right time. Now it may be "later than they think." Soon it may be too late.


Beloved, the year is rapidly drawing to a close. TIME speeds on. Neither you nor I can promise ourselves another year of grace, for before the midnight bells of December 31 ring out to welcome a new year we may already have passed into ETERNITY. It may be later than we think. The great question for each of us is; ETERNITY - WHERE?

Perhaps the article of death may not be our portion. Scripture warns us that, "the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." Are you ready to meet this One into whose hands all judgment has been committed? He may come tonight. Are you His?

"It may be at morn when the day is awaking,
When sunlight through darkness and shadow is breaking,
That Jesus will come in the fullness of glory
To receive from the world His own"

If the question of your eternal destiny is not yet settled, DO NOT DELAY. Receive the Lord Jesus as your Saviour NOW. Then you shall be among "His own" at His coming, and be "caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air."

Leave Him out, and to you He will come "as a thief in the night" to seal your eternal doom apart from that heavenly throng.

Make haste, I pray; for even now it may be "later than you think!"

"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life; and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abided on him" (John 3:36)

"Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation" (2  Corinthians 6:2)