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HESE words that were addressed to the Church in Philadelphia, contain an exhortation to the members of the Church, to hold fast those spiritual blessings which they possess, in order that they might not lose that crown of life which the Lord has prepared for his faithful and humble followers. How forcibly these words come home to every person, when death, resurrection, and eternity, are the subjects of their meditation! impressing the mind with the value of time, as it stands in connection with preparation for eternity. How short is the time allotted for human life in this world! and yet, short as we call it, how much of it do we waste in trifles light as air. The Psalmist, in contemplating the shortness of this life, calls his days but an hand-breadth, and his age as nothing; and yet from this hand-breadth, we subtract a portion for folly; from this comparative nothing, we take something, and too many of us fritter away the spring and the summer of life in spiritual idleness, so that we make a bitter harvest in the autumn. The winter aproaches, dark, cold, and dreary; and we then begin to find that we have thoughtlessly left to the mercies of a moment the vast concerns of eternity! The thoughtless man who has wasted his days and years in worldly pleasures; has despised the Truths of Revelation, and has suffered all the overtures of mercy