“How are we to get rid of this fear?” asks one. Well, let us never try to get rid of it, as some do, by forgetting all about death. That would be to live as the brutes that perish; they live their little day here without any thought beyond the present. The ox and the sheep go to the slaughter-house without the power to look beyond the present life. I would not like to obtain peace of mind by descending to the level of those “dumb, driven cattle.”
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Thus I have shown you that, to overcome the fear of death, we must look to Jesus Christ, on the cross atoning for us, in the resurrection rising for us, in the glory taking possession of our home for us, and at the right hand of God preparing our place for us, possessing all power, and using it so that he may bring us unto his eternal kingdom; and soon to come again, in all the glory of the latter days, to raise the bodies of his people from the dead unless they are still alive at his coming.
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“In vain my fancy strives to paint
The moment after death,
The glories that surround the saint
When yielding up his breath.
“One gentle sigh the fetter breaks:
We scarce can say, ‘They’re gone!’
Before the willing spirit takes
Her mansion near the throne.”
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And if there is a man here who has made no provision for eternity, and who has no mansion, no abiding-place, no treasure, no Friend, no Advocate, no Helper there, he is a gigantic fool, be he who he may. The Lord give that fool a little sense, and lead him to confess his folly, and to look to Jesus, who is Saviour, Friend, and Heaven all in one.
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