ONLY TWO

* ONLY TWO WAYS.
So the Bible tells us -- one broad, the other narrow; one leading to destruction, the other to life. Many tread the one; few the other. Reader, which is your way? They are well defined. "Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat ... Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matt. 7:13,14.

* ONLY TWO CLASSES.
Many different classes, no doubt, in men's sight, but only two in God's sight. The difference between them is very plain. "He that believeth on Him [the only begotten Son of God] is NOT CONDEMNED: but he that believeth not is CONDEMNED ALREADY," John 3:18. The former class is on the narrow road; the latter, on the broad. To which do you belong?

* ONLY TWO SIDES.
Which are you on? Christ says: "He that is not with Me is against Me." Matt. 12:30. The old cry of "Christ or Barabbas?" has not died down yet. Its terms may alter, but its meaning is ever the same. Christ or the world? Christ or self? This world or the world to come? The issue is very plain. Which side are you on?

* ONLY TWO DEATHS.
The death of the righteous and the death of the wicked. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord." Rev. 14:13. "As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked." Ezek. 33:11. The brightest spot in this world is the death-bed of a triumphant Christian; the saddest sight is that of a sinner passing into the gloom of an eternal night without the shelter of the precious blood. If the Lord does not come, one of these two deaths will be yours. Which would it be, if you were to die this moment?

* ONLY TWO PLACES.
Heaven and hell -- in eternity. To which are you travelling? Time carries you swiftly on. Once you cross Time's boundary, "the great gulf fixed" is set up forever, and then mistakes are irrevocable and indifference fatal. Heaven will be the home of the ransomed of the Lord, of those who trusted Christ and received Him as their Saviour. This alone is their title. Alas! the unbeliever seals his own doom. "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." Psalm 9:17.

When will You Decide for Christ ?

"WILL YOU DECIDE NOW?" was the question I put to an elderly man; but no answer followed. His head was bowed in thought. I waited, and still waited, but no reply came.

"WHEN WILL YOU DECIDE?" was my next interrogation; but yet no response.

"WILL YOU DECIDE TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW?" Twenty years, twenty years, and the man already old!

"No " said he; "it is not likely that I shall live twenty years!"

"THEN WILL YOU DECIDE TEN YEARS FROM NOW?"

"No," said he; "I dare not put it off ten years."

"THEN WILL YOU DECIDE FIVE YEARS FROM NOW?"

"No," he replied; "I dare not delay for five years."

"THEN WILL YOU DECIDE THIS TIME NEXT YEAR?"

"No," said he; "I might die before next year."

"THEN WILL YOU DECIDE A MONTH FROM TODAY?"

His answer was delayed.

It may be that the devil suggested that four weeks would soon roll round, and that he might safely wait that length of time; but at last, after mature consideration, he said, "No, I should not wait a month."

"THEN WILL YOU DECIDE IN A WEEK?"

Again he said "No."

"THEN WILL YOU DECIDE THIS TIME TOMORROW?"

Tomorrow, so near at hand! Tomorrow, only a few hours away! Tomorrow! "No," said the old man, "I ought to decide now!"

WHY NOW? Age, wisdom, conscience, time, eternity, Scripture, furnish the reason why. Their combined and unanimous, their long, and loud, and only cry is NOW! NOW! NOW!

Undecided reader, when shall it be? When? It may be NOW or NEVER. God places a period before you. He says, "NOW is the day of Salvation"; and more than that, He says, "NOW is the accepted time."

DECIDE FOR CHRIST NOW!