Page:Sermons preached in the African Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Thomas', Philadelphia.djvu/197

 Deut. xxxii., 29. is a serious thought, not always easy to thrust aside, that every thing pertaining to this life must come to an end, how soon none can tell. This is a secret veiled in the bosom of the great Eternal. The solemn truth we cannot evade; the conviction is deep in our minds, that all things which now delight the eye, gratify the taste, dazzle and delude the giddy, and which excite the ambition of a vain multitude, all shall have an end. The stars themselves shall fade, the sun grow