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DEATH.
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Soon for me the light of day
Shall forever pass away;
Then from sin and sorrow free,
Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee.

Doane.

All life is surrounded by a great circumference of death; but to the believer in Jesus, beyond this surrounding death is a boundless sphere of life. He has only to die once to be done with death forever.


Yes, death,—the hourly possibility of it,—death is the sublimity of life.


Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.

Sears.

Thus star by star declines
     Till all are passed away,
As morning high and higher shines
     To pure and perfect day:
Nor sink those stars in empty night;
     They hide themselves in heaven's pure light.


Life's race well run,
Life's work well done,
Life's crown well won,
     Now comes rest.

President Garfield's Epitaph.