Slowly, silently, imperceptibly, as the dusk of twilight steals upon the world and no man can draw the line and tell where day ceased and where night commences, so does darkness fall upon a human soul. A heart is not hardened in one moment. A Christian does not at once plunge from faith into unbelief or from purity into sin. Evil rarely or never swallows up a man at once, but it engulfs him gradually like the quicksand. "Drifting," "slipping," "sliding"--these are the words that describe the Christian's departure from his Lord. And he drifts scarcely aware, until some day he awakes, perhaps when it is too late, and wonders how he ever got so very far away. So watch. Do not get careless in your prayers. Do not suffer your Bible to grow dusty. Do not forsake the assembly of the saints. Cleave to the Lord, for beyond is danger and death. "But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God."

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