On Halting Between Two Opinions
"How long halt ye between two opinions?" You middle aged men, you said when you were youths, "When we are out of our apprenticeship we will become religious; let us sow our wild oats in our youth, and let us then begin to be diligent servants of the Lord." Lo! you have come to middle age, and are waiting till that quiet villa shall be built, and you shall retire from business, and then you think you will serve God. Sirs,
you said the same when you came of age, and when your business began to increase. I therefore solemnly demand of you, "How long halt ye between two opinions?" How much time do you want? Oh! young man, you said in your early childhood, when a mother's prayer followed you, "I will seek God when I come to manhood;" and you have passed that day; you are a man, and more than that, and yet you are halting still. "How long halt ye between two opinions?" How many of you have been churchgoers and chapel-goers for years! you have been impressed, too,
many a time; but you have wiped the tears from your eyes, and have said, "I will seek God and turn to Him with full purpose of heart;" and you are now just where you were. How many more sermons do you want? How many more Sundays must roll away wasted? How many warnings, how many sicknesses, how many tollings of the
bell to warn you that you must die? How many graves must be dug for your family before you will be impressed? How many plagues and pestilences must ravage this city before you will turn to God in truth? "How long halt ye between two opinions?" Would God you could answer this question, and not allow the sands of life to drop,
drop, drop from the glass, saying, "When the next goes I will repent," and yet that next one finds you impenitent. You say, "When the glass is just so low, I will turn to God." No; it will not answer to talk so; for you may find your glass empty before you thought it had begun to run low, and you may find yourself in eternity when you did but think of repenting and turning to God.
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