The Rev. Charles Simeon was once summoned to the death-bed of a dying brother. Entering the room, the relative extended his hand, and with some emotion said, “I am dying, and you never warned me of the state in which I was, and of the great danger I was in of neglecting the salvation of my soul.”
“Nay, my brother,” said Mr. Simeon, “but I took every reasonable opportunity of bringing the subject of religion before you, and frequently alluded to it in my letters.”
“Yes,” said the dying man, “but you never came to me, closed the door, and took me me by the collar of my coat, and told me I was unconverted, and that if I died in that state, I should be lost; and now I am dying, and, but for God’s grace, I might have been for ever undone.”
It is said that Mr. Simeon never forgot this scene.
[i]-Taken from The New Cyclopedia of Illustrative Anecdote, Rev. Donald Macleod, 1872, pg. 335
