ng sowing, I will be, but the seed will grow none the
less.

Did it ever occur to you how many faces the Prodigal missed on his way
back home? Many a splendid young fellow that caroused with him as he
went into the far country did not enjoy the fatted calf with him when
he came back to the peace and plenty of his Father's house. Some of
them had gone into eternity and others had gone beyond his influence
forever more.

While I was in Huntington a few weeks ago, the pastor for whom I was
preaching told me of a young friend of his who carried his little baby
in to see a noted eye specialist. The child's eyes were very bad. The
physician examined them and shook his head. "Her eyes will never get
better," he said, "but will get worse. She will be blind before she is
grown." And the father's face went white and he said, "Doctor, you
know my youth wasn't what it ought to have been. Can that be the
cause?" And the doctor said, "You needn't to have told me. Certainly
it is the cause." And it was a broken-hearted man that left that
office that day. And it was a broken-hearted and praying and penitent
man that kissed his child to sleep that night. Oh, God will forgive
him, but there is one thing that that forgiveness will not include and
that is daylight for his little girl.

"I will cause them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth
because of Manasseh." And Manasseh is good and pure and blood-washed,
but the influences that he set in motion have gone beyond his reach
forever more. What a fearful fact is this! I am talking to young men
and women and you have your lives before you. You may give them to
sin, and you may be saved at the last moment. That is a possibility,
though it is a slight one. But such a salvation may mean the wrecking
of many another life. The only safe way is to repent before you waste
your life. Repent before you sin.

Do you remember Esau's pathetic story? He sold his birthright for one
mess of lentils. Nor was he at all displeased with his bargain. At
least that was true for a little while, but there came a time when he
was sorry. There came a time when his foolish bartering broke his
heart. And the story says that he found no place for repentance though
he sought it diligently and with tears.

That does not mean, of course, that God refused to forgive Esau. The
moment we turn in penitent surrender to our Lord He will save us and
give us an abundant pardon, howeve