A Call to Repentance by Spurgeon

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 11, 1865

A Call to Repentance

By Spurgeon

While the cry is going forth, repent "while it is yet called to-day," and the Master is standing at the door of every heart knocking for admission, let me entreat you, fellow traveler to eternity—thou who hast never given thy heart to God and hast no higher object of adoration than the mammon and pleasures of this world, to ask thyself these questions: From whence dost thou receive all thy enjoyments? Who is the giver of thy manifold blessings? And what return dost thou make unto thy great Benefactor? Echo, will answer, what?

The little dew-drops sparkling in the morning sun, and the tiny songsters warbling forth their mellow notes, the swelling buds and bursting flowers, in short, all inanimate nature as it performs its numerous though silent changes, speaks more audibly its great Creator's praise, and more truly adores the God of the universe than thou! Oh! fellow mortal—pause, I entreat thee—pause for a moment, and consider what has been done for thee, before it be everlastingly too late. Think of the ransom that has been given, the price that has been paid, that thou mayest enjoy the never-ending pleasures of eternity, rather than only the few fleeting joys of earth. Raise thy voice in prayer, perhaps for the first time ask God to show thee thy true condition, and to give thee faith to lay hold on eternal life. Then shalt thou know and realize for thyself that God is love.—Spurgeon.