The good clergyman pointed to the corpse, and said, “There is a lesson never to be forgotten: he was of the world: he was in darkness, until it pleased God by the light of his Holy Spirit to take away that darkness, and direct him to the only sure refuge, the Lord Jesus Christ. From that first dawn it has shone more and more unto the perfect day. He grew in grace, and prayed to be strengthened and confirmed in it.
“For him death had no terrors, but appeared the gate of life: the grave only seemed to him like a dark passage, and he looked beyond it to everlasting light and glory in heaven.
“Who can behold the mild countenance of our departed brother, and not exclaim, ‘Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!’”
Oh, Reader, may you thus live—thus die!!!
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