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The Deaf Shoemaker: To Which Are Added Other Stories for the Young

Chapter 26: “THE LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON.”
By Philip Barrett
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A collection of short moral and religious tales and sketches aimed at children and young people, offering narratives and reflections that illustrate Christian virtues such as courage, patience, repentance, and charity. The pieces combine anecdotal episodes, devotional meditations, hymnic passages, Sabbath-school addresses, and practical sketches for young men, using everyday domestic incidents and occasional heroic examples to teach right conduct. The book is organized as many brief, self-contained items intended to instruct, encourage faith, and prompt moral reflection.

“THE LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON.”

“Hasten, O sinner, to return,
And stay not for to-morrow’s sun,
For fear thy lamp should cease to burn
Before the needful work is done.”

“The Last Night of the Season,” stood forth in bold prominence from mammoth posters at every prominent place in the city.

“The Last Night of the Season” headed an advertisement in every daily paper.

“The Last Night of the Season,” was echoed by thousands of handbills.

“The Last Night of the Season,” lingered on the lips of nearly every passer-by.

At night, thronging crowds, with hurried step and anxious heart, pressed earnestly into the accustomed entrance—then too narrow to admit the greatly increased numbers—of a large and brilliantly illumined building.

Do you know, breathed in quick succession from one to another, it is “The Last Night of the Season?”

Fellow traveller to the bar of God, “I have somewhat to say unto thee.”

Has not this sentence already gone, like an arrow, to your heart? Do you not feel that perhaps you have seen the last night of the season of salvation?

Oh! it is an awful thought. Yet, thanks be to God, there is still another opportunity of being saved. I now present you that opportunity. Will you, can you, refuse? It may be the last night of the season. God only knows.

“Delay not, delay not, O sinner, to come,
For mercy still lingers and calls thee to-day,
Her voice is not heard in the vale of the tomb;
Her message unheeded will soon pass away.”

Fathers, mothers, friends, relatives, brothers, sisters, those that love you tenderly, dearly, Christian ministers, the writer of this little article, all join in the earnest entreaty, “Come to Jesus!”

He is a precious Saviour.

He is a loving Saviour.

He is a willing Saviour.

He is an able Saviour.

Then, will you not come and cast your burden upon Him?

He has never turned away one soul.

The thief on the cross,—poor, weeping Peter—Mary Magdalene, with her seven devils,—all found Him such a Saviour as I have described.

Young man, in the morning of life, you whose brow no cloud of sorrow has ever darkened, will you not come to that Saviour?

Young lady, will you not come to that Saviour? Will you, whose sex was the last at the cross, the first at the sepulchre, stay away from that Saviour? The daughters of Jerusalem found Him an all-sufficient Saviour, and will you not come, like Mary, and

“——fall at His feet,
And the story repeat,
And the lover of sinners adore?”