Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org

The people who know not God are in continual torment, through the
fear of death, because they fear something beyond death. They are
conscious to themselves that they are wicked; and they are afraid of God,
and terrified at the thought of eternity. By these fears thousands of sinful,
miserable creatures are prevented from hurrying themselves into the
unknown world.
Reader, thou art a tenant at will to God Almighty. How soon, in what
place, or in what circumstances, he may call thee to march into the eternal
world, thou knowest not. But this uncertainty cannot perplex thee, if thou
be properly subject to the will of God, ever willing to lose thy own in it.
But thou canst not be thus subject, unless thou hast the testimony of the
presence and approbation of God. How awful to be obliged to walk into
the valley of the shadow of death without this! Reader, prepare to meet
thy God.
Death is at no great distance; thou hast but a short time to do good.
Acquire a heavenly disposition while here; for there will be no change
after this life. If thou diest in the love of God and in the love of man, in
that state wilt thou be found in the day of judgment. If a tree about to fall
lean to the north, to the north it will fall; if to the south, it will fall to that
quarter. In whatever disposition or state of soul thou diest, in that thou
wilt be found in the eternal world. Death refines nothing, purifies nothing,
kills no sin, helps to no glory. Let thy continual bent and inclination be
to God, to holiness, to charity, to mercy, and to heaven: then, fall when
thou mayest, thou wilt fall well.
I have never fallen out with life. I have borne many of its rude blasts,
and I have been fostered by many of its finest breezes; and should I
complain against time and the dispensations of Providence, then shame
would be to me. Indeed, if God see it right, I have no objection to live on
here till the day of judgment; for while the earth lasts, there will be
something to do by a heart, head, and hand, like mine, as long as there is
something to be learned, something to be sympathetically felt, and