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 the good, the humble follower of Jesus, Death is the gate of life!—the messenger of peace! They feel no sting, and over them the grave obtains no victory. They know that when the earthly body mingles with the soil, the spirit, the LIVING SOUL, the very man himself—bursts forth from his tenement of clay, from the prison house, sepulchre, and grave, and at the powerful voice of Jesus, springs upwards to life and everlasting day. Do we start back at the contemplation of approaching death? if so, it is a certain evidence that we are standing in jeopardy every hour. Rather let us contemplate those amazing scenes of loveliness, beauty, and life eternal, which will be opened to us by death. It is a solemn subject, and may be the dread of the wicked, but it is the delight of the wise and good.

There is another subject of equal importance to consider; namely, "It is appointed for all men once to die, and after death, the judgment." The judgment! to be judged to an allotment eternal and unchangeable—to place and state of consummate felicity, or the most direful woe, according to the deeds done in the body. Is this the great object which Revelation has to declare and unfold? It is,—and every feeling of the heart bears testimony to its truth. Say no more, then, of the pangs of death, or the torment of corporeal sufferings. Speak not of the last sad pangs of expiring life: for what are these, and all the bitter woes of life's contracted span, to the things which follow? Well might Felix tremble, when Paul reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come.

Death and resurrection are so closely connected, that there are no weeks, months, or years, or ages