Why should we be sad? There are reasons enough, as many sad, lonely hearts among us know too well. To some men dark thoughts of death and judgment make the crumbling away of life too gloomy a fact to be contemplated, but it may and should be calm joy to us that the weary world ends and a blessed life begins. We may count the moments and see them pass, as a bride watches the hours rolling on to her marriage morning; not, indeed, without tremor and sadness at leaving her old home, but yet with meek hope and gentle joy.
It is possible for men to see that life is but as a shadow that declineth,' and yet to be glad. By faith in Christ, united to Him Who is for ever and ever,' our souls shall triumph over death and thee, O time.'
We need not cry,' Sun! stand still!' but rather,' Come quickly, Lord Jesus!'
Then Time shall be the lackey to eternity,' and Death be the porter of heaven's gate, and we shall pass from the land of setting suns and waning moons and change and sorrow, to that land where thy sun shall no more go down,' and there shall be no more time.'
