Come Now! by Talmage

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1873

Come Now!

By Talmage

OH! ye weary souls, come into Christ’s garden to-day and pluck a little “heart’s-ease.” Christ is the only rest and the only pardon for a perturbed spirit. Do you think your chance has almost come? You, men and women, who have been waiting, year after year, for some good opportunity in which to accept Christ, but have postponed it five, ten, twenty, thirty years, do you not feel as if now, your hour of deliverance, and pardon, and salvation, had come? Oh, man! what grudges, what grudge hast thou against thy poor soul, that thou wilt not let it be saved? I feel as if salvation must come this morning, in some of your hearts.

Some years ago, a vessel struck on the rocks. They had only one life-boat. In that life-boat, the passengers and the crew were getting ashore. The vessel had foundered, and was sinking deeper and deeper, and that one boat could not take the passengers very swiftly. A little girl stood on the deck, waiting for her turn to get into the boat. The boat came and went, came and went, but her turn did not seem to come. After a while she could wait no longer, and she leaped on the taffrail, and then sprang into the sea, crying: “Save me next! Save me next!”

Oh! how many have gone ashore into God’s mercy, and yet you are clinging to the wreck of sin. Others have accepted the pardon of Christ, but you are in peril. Why not, this morning, make a rush for your immortal rescue, crying until Jesus shall hear you, and Heaven and earth ring with the cry: “Save me next! Save me next!”—TALMAGE, in Christian at Work.