Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
... Every man knows these things; every man is assured that he must die—that sooner or later he will be carried to his long home, and will lie down in his narrow bed. Yet on how few does this assurance exercise a practical effect! It is a general truth of which men speak, but of which they seldom think. Let me ask you, dying man, Have you ever retired into your closet, and held converse with death? Have you ever said to yourself, After a few short years are come and gone, I will go to that place whence I shall not return? Have you ever asked yourself, What shall become of me after I die? Is it true what the Bible says, “After death is the judgment?” Must this soul which animates my bosom live for ever? How awfully solemn are such thoughts! ...
For more, see J. W. Taylor on considering the inevitability of mortality.
For more, see J. W. Taylor on considering the inevitability of mortality.
