Luke 12:47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will… A few weeks ago, a poor woman came to my surgery, and said, "A young woman is lodging in the same house with me, who is wretchedly poor, in great suffering, and, I fear, near her end." I accompanied the woman home. She led me to the bedside of the dying girl, and left us together. It was a dreadful scene. A girl of three or four and twenty lay on a wretched pallet, with scarcely any covering. A single chair and a broken table was all the furniture the room contained. Near the bed was hanging, on a few pegs, the girl's finery. Yes, alas l finery. Dresses of gaudy material, and showily made up, were flaunting their gay colours in this chamber of death, looking in that girl's eyes as she lay dying, as witnesses of her sin and folly, and reminding her that, as soon as she was dead, these things, which had cost her so dear, mould become the property of the landlady, as payment of the debt she had not money to discharge. I leaned over the bedside, and took her hand in mine. I told her that Jesus had sent me to her with an offer of peace and pardon. "No," she said, hoarsely — "no, I was brought up in a Sunday-school; I knew the right, but I did it not. There is no pardon for me now." I knelt down, I prayed for her — prayed, as she had not confidence to pray for herself — her sinful self. I besought Him that she might repent and find peace. But, even as I talked with her, she died, uttering the fearful cry, "Too late! too late!" (Dr. Raynor.) Parallel Verses KJV: And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. |
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