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The Dread Of Death

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Day
27
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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"What most concerns us, " writes Evangelist Moody iu The Ladies' Home! Journal, "is the relatiou whicb Ckrist's resunection has to our death and future life. So ruany people live in a fearfal dread of death and the grave, I beíiee, just because the? do not stndy this dootrÍEs. They speak of death and the judgment with a sbudder, and tbeir visión seems to be uuable to pierce beyond. "I well remernber how in my native village in New England it used to be cusfomary, as a funeral procession left the church, for the bell in the burying ground to toll as many tirnes as the deceased was years old. How anxiously I would count those ftrokes of the bell to see how long I might reckon on living. Sornetimes tkere would be 70 or 80 tolls, and I would give a sigh of relief to think I had so many years to live. Bnt at otber times there would be only a few years tolled, and then a horror would seize me as I thotight that I, too, might soon be claimed as a victim by that dread monster, death. Death and judgment were a constant source of fear to me till I realized the f act that neither shall ever have any hold on a cbild of God. "In his letter to the Romans the Apostle Paul has shown, in most direct language, that there is nocondemnation for a childof God, but he ispassed frnm under the power of law, and in the epistle to the Corinthians he tells us 'there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body,' 'and as we have borne the image of the earthy we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. ' "

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