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such should co-operate with the inspired prayer--"Createin me a clean heart [will], O God; and renew a rightspirit [disposition] within me...Then will I teachtransgressors Thy ways, and sinners shall be convertedunto Thee."--Psa. 51:10,13.May the love of God be more and more shed abroadin our hearts, and our consciences be always tender, andmay we ever abstain from the appearance of evil. Maywe be enabled at all times to be circumspect in our conversation,and to scrutinize our thoughts and words anddoings, to the intent that we may ever be ready and ableto serve our Heavenly Father and His dear flock, the"Feet" members of the Body of Christ!Grudge no loving word, my brother,As along through life you go,To the ones who journey with you;If you love them, tell them so.====================R5131 : page 355IN DREAMLESS SLEEP DEAD AWAIT CHRIST'S RETURN"If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receiveyou unto Myself, that where I am there ye may be also."--John 14:3.THE ERROR OF supposing that men arealive when they are dead lies close to thefoundation of every theological error theworld over. We have all erred in takingthe guess of Plato instead of the Word ofGod, and we can get rid of our difficultiesand theological entanglements only by retracingour steps. Notwithstanding allthat we have said and written, calling attentionto the words of the Scriptures, the questionfrequently arises, Do you mean to tell us that ourfriends do not go to Heaven immediately when they die?That is exactly what we are endeavoring to demonstrateto be the teaching of the Bible. The Bible alone,of all religious books, teaches that a dead man is dead,and knows nothing, and that his only hope is in the Divinearrangement through Christ, by a resurrection of thedead--"both of the just and of the unjust."--Acts 24:15.When we remember that, according to nearly all thereligious creeds and theories of the world, 999 out ofevery thousand pass immediately at death into most horriblesufferings, one would think that all would be gladto promptly accept the Bible testimony, that death is adreamless sleep until the resurrection awakening. Whyanyone should prefer to think of his friends and neighborsand the heathen millions as suffering torture, rather