for that shall call for vengeance. Yea, if
ye will not herein repent your wicked doings,"--and as Elizabeth spoke,
she laid her hand upon the bar--"this very bar shall be witness against
you in the Day of Judgment, that ye have this day shed innocent blood!"

Oh, how England needs such a prophetess now! and above all, those
"halting Gospellers," the men who talk sweetly about charity and
toleration, and sit still, and will not come to the help of the Lord
against the mighty! They sorely want reminding that Christ has said,
"He that is not with us is against us." It is a very poor excuse to
say, "Oh, I am not doing any harm." Are you doing any good? That is
the question. If not, a wooden post is as good as you are. And are you
satisfied to be no better than a wooden post?

What grand opportunities there are before boys and girls on the
threshold of life! What are you going to do with your life? Remember,
you have only one. And there are only two things you can do with it.
You must give it to somebody--and it must be either God or Satan. All
the lives that are not given to God fall into the hands of Satan. There
are very few people who say to themselves deliberately, Now, I will not
give my life to God. They only say, Oh, there's plenty of time; I won't
do it just now; I want to enjoy myself. They don't know that there is
no happiness on earth like that of deciding for God. And so they go on
day after day, not deciding either way, but just frittering their lives
away bit by bit, until the last day comes, and the last bit of life, and
then it is too late to decide. Would you like such a poor, mean,
valueless thing as this to be the one life which is all you have? Would
you not rather have a bright, rich, full life, with God Himself for your
best friend on earth, and then a triumphal entry into the Golden City,
and the singer's harp, and the victor's palm, and the prince's crown,
and the King's "Well done, good and faithful servant?"

Do you say, Yes. I would choose that, but I do not know how? Well,
then, tell the Lord that. Say to Him, "Lord, I want to be Thy friend
and servant, and I do not know how." Keep on saying it till He shows
you how. He is sure to do it, for He cares about it much more than you
do. Never fancy for one minute that God does not want you to go to
Heaven, and that it will be hard work to persuade Him to let you in. He
wants you to come more than you want it. He gave His own