A Peculiarity of the human mind is seen in the tendency to defer to the future our response to a present call to duty,—an opportunity which may never come again, and which certainly will never come in quite the same way.
An explanation of this shortcoming is found in the slowness with which we recognize the appeal of the Christ, past and present. We seem to lose sight of the fact that these opportunities pass with incredible swiftness. Job's figure of the weaver's shuttle expresses this most fittingly. and such being the case man must either grasp his opportunity or miss it for it will not await his delay.
No story in the Bible has deeper pathos than that which tells of Jesus weeping over the city of Jerusalem, the cause of whose impending doom he expressed in these words, "Thou knewest not the time of thy visitation."
