“Tomorrow” he promised his conscience,

“Tomorrow I mean to believe.

Tomorrow I’ll think as I ought to,

Tomorrow the Saviour receive.

Tomorrow I’ll repent of my sins

That hold me from Heaven away.”

And ever his conscience repeated

One word, and one only—“Today!”

Tomorrow! Tomorrow! Tomorrow!

’Till youth with its vision was gone,

’Till age and his passions had written

The message of fate on his brow,

And forth from the shadows came Death

With the pitiless syllable, “Now!”

“God … nowcommandeth all men every where to repent” (Acts 17:30).

“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow” (Isaiah 1:18).

“Come: for all things are nowready” (Luke 14:17).

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life…. The hour is coming, and nowis, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live” (John 5:24,25).

“Behold, nowis the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (2 Corinthians 6:2).

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