approval the proverb, "While there’s life there's hope." But fact is that this just isn't so. It is true, of course, that God can and does save sinners at any time of life, so that we can speak of death-bed repentances, which are few and far between. But God is a God of law and order. Theoretically God might raise a man to-day from the dead, so that a man might conceivably be converted even after he died. But God does not work that way. By the same token He does not ordinarily save in later life a person who has continually rejected Christ each time He knocked in the preaching of
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