109SermonsbyJCRyle
happiness is to be found in the good things of this world. Seek it, if you will, in reveling and banqueting, in dancing and merry making. In races and theaters, in sports and cards. Seek it, if you will, in reading and scientific pursuits, in music and painting, in politics and business. Seek it—but you will never find it, unless you change your plan. Real heart-rest is never to be found except in heart-union with Jesus Christ. There is no true rest for any one, excepting in Christ! Happy will it be for your soul if that lesson is never forgotten!
3. Reader, do you desire to possess the rest that Christ alone can give, and yet feel afraid to seek it? I beseech you, as a friend to your soul, to cast this needless fears away. For what did Christ die on the cross—if not to save sinners? For what does He sit at the right hand of God—if not to receive and intercede for sinners? When Christ invites you so plainly, and promises so freely—why should you rob your own soul, and refuse to come to Him?
Who, among all the readers of this tract, desires to be saved by Christ, and yet is not saved at present? Come, I beseech—you come to Christ without delay! Though you have been a great sinner, COME! Though you have long resisted warnings, counsels, sermons, COME! Though you have sinned against light and knowledge, against a father's advice and a mother's tears, COME! Though you have plunged into every excess of wickedness, and lived without prayer, yet COME! The door is not shut, the fountain is not yet closed. Jesus Christ invites you. It is enough that you feel laboring and heavy-laden, and desire to be saved. Come—come to Christ without delay!
Come to Him by faith, and pour out your heart before Him in prayer. Tell Him the whole story of your life, and ask Him to receive you. Cry to Him as the penitent thief did, when he saw Him on the cross. Say to Him, "Lord, save me also! Lord, remember me!" COME—COME TO CHRIST!