Will you postpone the consideration of these things? What, and if this night your soul should be required of you? Be ye therefore ready. (Luke xii. 20–40.) “Behold, _now_ is the accepted time, _now_ is the day of salvation.” (2 Cor. vi. 2.) “Seek ye the Lord _while he may be found_, call ye upon him _while he is near_;” (Isaiah lv. 6.) lest you resemble the _Roman Emperor_ who, in his dying moments, said, “My poor vagrant Soul, whither art thou going;” or the _unbelieving Voltaire_, who declared to his physician, he would give half his fortune to have his life lengthened half a-year; or the _Jewish Rabbi_, who said to them that asked him why he wept, “If they were carrying me before a king of flesh and blood, who is here to-day, and to-morrow in the grave; who may bring me into bondage, but cannot keep me there, only for a season; who may destroy my body, but cannot touch my soul, even in these circumstances I should weep. But now I am going before the King of Kings, the only blessed God, who liveth and endureth for ever and ever, who, if I die impenitent, will consign me to the pit whence there is no redemption.” Instead of being thus left, with Pagans, Infidels, and Jews, to dread uncertainty, on a subject so amazingly important as the future state of the immortal soul, instead of the dreadful risk which all must run who are careless or indifferent on such a matter, you may, by that grace of the Holy Spirit which you are encouraged to seek, by that repentance towards God, and faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ, which you are invited to exercise, and which is the gift of God, be enabled to triumph over _death_, and say, “I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him.” (2 Tim. i. 12.) “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Cor. xv. 55.) You may carry your imagination beyond the grave, and say, in the prospect of an appearance at the _judgment_ of the great day, “Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died.” (Rom. viii. 34.) You may look forward to _eternity_, and say, “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, 1 have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.” (2 Tim. iv. 6, 7.) That God of his infinite mercy and love may bless you with this grace, and lead you to the exercise of this repentance and faith; or, if you are now penitent believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, that you may be kept “steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,” is the hearty desire of the friend who thus wishes to draw your attention to the _Worth of your Souls_, by leading you to consider, _their nature_, _the price of their redemption_, and _the means of their spiritual welfare_.