There is grandpa for one." "Yes, my child," sighed her mother, "but he has always deeply regretted having so long delayed beginning the Christian course--entering the service of the dear Master whom now he loves better than wife or child or any created being.

There are many reasons, my darling, why delay is both dangerous and unwise as well as basely ungrateful." "You allude to the uncertainty of life, mamma ?" "Yes, and of the continuance of health and reason.

How many have been suddenly overtaken by fatal illness that at once robbed them of the power to think, so that if preparation for the solemn realities of another world had not been already made, the opportunity for so doing was forever lost! "There is also danger that God's Spirit may cease to strive with you, and without His help you can not come to Christ.
"Nor do we know how soon Jesus may come again in the clouds of heaven.
He himself has told us that he will come as a thief in the night; that is when he is not expected.
"But, Rosie, my dear child, even if you could know certainly that delay will not cost you the loss of your soul, it will bring you other loss great and irreparable." "What, mamma ?" Rosie asked with a look of mingled surprise and alarm.

"I can not think what you mean." "While it is a precious truth that all who finally repent and accept of Christ as their only Saviour, will inherit eternal life--a life of holiness and unspeakable happiness at God's right hand," answered her mother, "yet there will be a difference in the portions of those who have spent many years in the faithful service of the Master--using their time and talents for the advancement of his cause and kingdom, and striving to win others to know and serve him, and themselves to grow in grace and conformity to his likeness and his will--and that of others who have been saved only at the last and so as by fire.

All will be perfectly happy but some will have a greater capacity for happiness than others.
"According to the teachings of God's word sin is the greatest folly, the service of God the highest wisdom.
"'Doth not wisdom cry?
and understanding put forth her voice ?...