CERTAIN silly children, having only a short candle, must needs be at their games when they ought to have minded their lessons. Taking no heed to the burning away of their light, they played on, and on, till at last their candle was out, and they were forced to go to bed in the dark. Many such children are to be found who are of the size and age of men and women. Their time is spent in trifling, or in seeking worldly ends; and when their candle of life is out, as it soon will be, they will have to die in the worst kind of darkness. Reader, are you one of these? Let me assure you, from what I have personally seen, that it is an awful thing to quit this life without having a clear light upon the world to come. I beseech you, do not take that last dread leap in the dark!—C. H. Spurgeon.