with the soul, they may receive reward or punishment according to their works. Remember that, if condemned, you will again receive your body, which will serve for the eternal prison of your soul. Then will the soul curse the body and the body the soul, so that body and soul, which are now united in the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, will be again united to torment each other after death. If, on the other hand, you are saved, then will your body arise in perfect beauty, radiant and incapable of suffering, so that both soul and body will be worthy of eternal life. Thus will this life, like an act of a drama, end. All the delight, as well as the pomp of this world, will end. All is over then. Nothing remains but two eternities, the one of glory and the other of punishment; one of bliss, the other of misery; one of joy, and the other of suffering; the just in heaven, the sinners in hell. [Examine how you stand , and especially with regard to your besetting sin.] Poor, then, will be that man who has loved the world, and who, for the miserable joys of this world, has lost everything — everything, soul, body, heaven, and God. [Awaken your contrition, and make a firm resolution.]
III. Consider the eternal sentence. Jesus Christ the judge will turn towards the reprobates, and say: It is all over with you; now, ungrateful souls, all is over ! My hour is now come; the hour of truth and justice, the hour of wrath and vengeance. “ Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire.” (Matt, xxv.) Away, ye sinners. You have loved cursing, and now let it come upon you. Accursed be ye all, now and throughout all eternity ! Depart from my presence; go, deprived of all you possessed, laden with torments, go into eternal fire! [In view of this judgment, examine yourself on your besetting sin.]
