They have got over the initial difficulties that lay in their
way to the Lord's table, and we have entered their names with honest
pride in our communion roll. But a year or two passes over, and the
critical season arrives when our young communicant 'comes out,' as the
word is. Up till now she has been a child, a little maid, a Bible-class
student, a young communicant, a Sabbath-school teacher. But she is now a
young lady, and she comes out into the world. We soon see that she has
so come out, as we begin to miss her from places and from employments her
presence used to brighten; and, very unwillingly, we overhear men and
women with her name on their lips in a way that makes us fear for her
soul, till many, oh, in a single ministry, how many, who promised well at
the gate and ran safely past many snares, at last sell all--body and soul
and Saviour--in Vanity Fair.
Well, Evangelist remains Evangelist still. Only, without losing any of
his sweetness and freeness and fulness of promise, he adds to that some
solemn warnings and counsels suitable now, as never before, to these two
pilgrims.
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