When I see Kings lying by those
who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the
holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I
reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions,
factions, and debates of mankind. When I read the several dates of the
tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I
consider that great judgment day when we shall all of us be
contemporaries, and make our appearance together."
THE AGED MAN
who has "walked with God" is always ready for the Master's call. His
loins are girded about and his lights burning. He "lies down with the
Kings of the earth," and that leveling process which is thus intimated
and begun in death he feels is the order of a higher plane of life to
come, when all the abuses and incongruities of human government will be
swept away, and the light of omniscient wisdom will shine on all alike.
There will he meet the little child who strayed from the fold into the
snows of death early in the married life, and there will he sit beside
that fond old heart who heard his first piteous wail in this cold world,
and nestled him to her bosom all warm with a mother's love.
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