in the banqueting-hall; there was only the thickness of a door between them and the wedding feast; but they only heard the awful sentence, “Too late! too late! ye cannot enter now.” Your great danger is that you will get to be content with being near the kingdom, although not actually in it. I have known some people remain in that perilous position for months and years, till at last it got to be their chronic condition, and they made no effort to take the decisive step. They appeared to be in a very