"How good it would be if He came tonight!"

Upon hearing these words, Ellen looked up from the book she was reading.

"If who came tonight? Are we having company?" thought Ellen.

Her curiosity was aroused, and as she listened, she found it was the Lord Jesus her two friends
were talking about. At once the answer came to her mind.

"Oh, no! it would not be good if He came tonight, because I am not ready to meet Him."

She knew very well that the Lord Jesus was coming back again, and that only those who were
washed in His precious blood_whose sins were forgiven, would go with Him, and that those who
were not ready would be left behind for judgment.

But "coming tonight"_somehow Ellen had not thought that possible. And as for death, was she
not young, and well, and likely to live a long time? She believed what Satan said:

"There was plenty of time yet."

After thinking it over a few moments, she turned to the book she had before thought so interesting
to find that it had now lost its interest, and in her ears were ringing the words,

"Coming tonight; coming tonight"

Days and weeks passed, and instead of getting rid of the feeling, she was awakened to see the
danger she was in.

"I am not any worse than other girls, and a great deal better than some; I really mean to be saved
some day." These were thoughts that came into her head. But many a night she lay awake, unable
to go to sleep for fear the Lord Jesus should come, and she would be left behind.

On Sunday evening she went to a Gospel meeting. Before this she had been glad when the
preaching was over. Tonight, however, she listened to every word. At the close of the meeting
a friend said to her, "Do you know the Lord Jesus?" Ellen could not answer.

Then he took up the Bible Ellen had been reading so diligently during the past months, and turning
to Isaiah 53 made it personal, reading it this way:"He was wounded for my transgressions, He
was bruised for my iniquities, the chastisement of my peace was upon Him, and by His stripes I
am healed."

That night Ellen learned that the Lord Jesus had died for her, but yet she could not say that she
was saved. She tried to feel saved, before she had learned to know it.

She was hoping and doubting, until she almost despaired of ever knowing the peace she longed
for. Finally, in despair, she shut herself in her room, and falling down on her knees, told Jesus
everything:how she had tried to make herself better, and how she had failed, and that if He would
just take her as she was, she would give herself to Him.

As she knelt there in the deep consciousness of being in the very presence of God, the words came
into her mind:"Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out." (John 6:37).

Ellen accepted the Lord Jesus just as she was, and O, what peace and happiness filled her heart!

Thus Jesus speaks:who will reply,
O, Lord, I come to Thee;
Thy precious love hath won my heart,
Thine henceforth I will be?"

"Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." (Matt. 11:28).

How touching and impressive is this account of how young Ellen was saved. The Lord’s return
is very, very near now.

Are you ready? If not, won’t you make the above poem personal, and put your name in there, and
say:I "will reply, ‘O Lord, I come to Thee!’"

If you have already accepted Christ as your Saviour, and can thankfully say, "Thy precious love
hath won my heart," let me ask you; is His promised return in your thoughts_yes_every day?
It is in His thoughts, Who loved you and gave Himself for you!

"Blessed are those servants, whom the Lord when He cometh shall find watching:verily I say unto
you, that He shall gird Himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve
them." (Luke 12:37).

"And every man that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure." (I John 3:3).