THE CRISIS OF SOULS by Spurgeon

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 11, 1877

THE CRISIS OF SOULS.

By Spurgeon

Often when traveling among the Alps, one sees a small black cross planted on a rock, or on the brink of a torrent, or on the verge of the highway, to mark the spot where men have met with sudden death by accident. Solemn reminders, these, of our mortality! but they led our minds still further; for we said within us, if the places where men seal themselves for the second death could be thus manifestly indicated, what a scene would this world present! Here the memorial of a soul undone by yielding to a foul temptation, there a conscience seared by the rejection of a final warning, and yonder a heart forever turned into stone by resisting the last tender appeal of love. Our places of worship would scarce hold the sorrowful monuments which might be erected over spots where spirits were forever lost—spirits that date their ruin from sinning against the gospel while under the sound of it.—Spurgeon.