The soldier's funeral.

Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The soldier's funeral. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    e The Soldier’s Funeral. 9 and on seeing your body lowered into its dreary prison-house, and hearing the mould rattle upon your coffin; while, amidst the tears and sobs and groans of surviving friends, the minister of religion pro- nounces the solemn words, “ earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust”—may in the intensity of christian concern exclaim, where is he? Ahd where, O where wilt thou then be? Pause and reflect. Hastily dismiss not the momentous en- quiry, on which hangs thine eternal weal or woe. Enter into thy closet, and there, as in the presence of Him who searcheth the heart, realize to thy thoughts the moment of thy departure, thine entrance into the world of spirits, thy future, thine unchangeable por- tion throughout eternity, and ask thyself, am I pre- pared to meet my God? If you have been convinced of sin, as a transgressor of God’s holy law, by the Spirit of truth, and of your consequent exposure to his curse denounced against every violation of it, even in thought, and hence have been led to exclaim, “ what must I do to be saved 2” —if, deeply sensible of your guilt and danger, you ‘have fled for refuge to Jesus as the only hope” set before you in the gospel, and ‘‘ on whom whosoever believeth with the heart, shall not perish, but have everlasting life ;’—if from a conviction of your weak- ness and helplessness, you are also Jooking to him for grace to resist your great adversaries, the world, the flesh, and the devil; all of which in your baptism you promised to renounce ;—if you are earnestly desirous of having “holiness to the Lord” written upon your heart, and daily exhibited in your walk
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