Well is it for us that neither the perverseness, nor pride, nor wisdom, nor ignorance, nor intolerable vanity of man can snatch from us the birthright of immortality. And they who basely attempt to unsay what God has said, and to rob us of hope beyond the grave, add but one more proof, not of man’s having risen from the foul beasts of the earth, but having fallen from his first high estate. Their very ignorance, doubt, and defiance of God are but tokens of their own corruption, confusion, and decay. Meanwhile the earth abides in its appointed course; heaven abides, life and death remain; truth is immortal. Wise men, ripe for the grave, mighty in worldly knowledge, babble of mysteries beyond their utmost ken. So let it be. God is not unmindful of His own.
“Man’s little systems have their day,
They have their day and cease to be;
They are but broken lights of Thee,
And thou, O Lord, art more than they.”
For God created man to be immortal, and made him to be an image of His own eternity; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Laus Deo.
J. OGDEN AND CO., PRINTERS, 172, ST. JOHN STREET, E.C.