The Saving Blood and Gospel Opportunity
THE rabbis have a legend that on the passover night, when the Israelites were waiting a signal for their departure from Egypt, there was in one of the Jewish homes a sick girl, who asked her father repeatedly if the blood had been sprinkled on the lintel of the door. Not being satisfied with his oft assurances that it had been properly attended to, she begged him for her sake to go and see. He went outside the door and looked, and no blood was there. He made haste to bring the basin with the branch of hyssop, and had just sprinkled the lintel when a shadow fell upon him. He looked up, and lo! the destroying angel was passing by. The destroying angel is hovering over the lands which have not yet accepted the way of salvation, and over the Christless millions in our own America. But few of these millions have had the saving blood of Jesus sprinkled upon their hearts. What if even one of these precious souls should be lost because you failed to do your part toward making known to him the way of escape? The door of opportunity to give the gospel to the spiritually needy still stands open to you. Will you not enter? Or will you pass it by, waiting for "a more convenient season" that may never come to you? — Selected.