Dissipation, Despair, Destruction
Every one knows that the gravest troubles and the direst calamities are hanging over this world by the brittlest threads. But do you know, personally, of the tender loving Saviour, who has provided a secure shelter from it all? And do you know that He has sent a personal invitation to you to come into His shelter and be saved from the bursting storm? If you are a sinner of the deepest dye He invites you just the same. For He has cleansing power that takes away every stain of sin as you come to Him. Dissipation, Despair, Destruction.—A few days ago a young woman of San Francisco ended a day's carousal and hilarity by taking poison and killing herself. It was claimed that she had associated with the best of society men, and that her life had been one constant round of the luxurious and voluptuous pleasures that the world has to offer. Some of the circumstances seem to indicate that she became so intoxicated with wine and the excitements of dancing that she took her life merely as one part of the general dissipations of fun. What an awful condition of mind for one to be in when laying down this life! How terrible to awake from such scenes of revelry to stand in the presence of the Great Judge in that final day of reckoning that is right at hand! There is an abandon and recklessness coming into the sports and games and revelries of these times that forebodes the overhanging crash of doom. If our eyes are only open to the realities of the situation we can certainly see the fury of demons manifested in the follies of these days. They make men and women madly drunk with pleasures in order that they may drive them to deeds of despair, and then plunge them into the crater of self-destruction.