the rest of his life would have been different, he might have been
converted then. How often it happens that we hear a powerful sermon,
perhaps on the first Sunday night of a Mission, but we have something to
attend to on Monday, something that might be left without injury, or it
may be a party or a concert, and so we do not go to the meeting next
night. If we had done so, our whole life might have been changed!
Eat and drink! One wonders it did not choke him, for were not his
subjects starving? The famine was sore in the land; men and women pined,
children died of hunger, cattle and sheep perished in the fields, but all
this, what had it to do with the king? He was hungry, and would eat and
would be jolly, never mind about the poor people! Remember, my hearers,
you cannot turn your back on God and be the same man you have been. Each
time you say "No," to God's grace, you become less fit for His kingdom.
If men could but see their souls--