How necessary it becomes us to reflect on our future state, a state in
which we are doomed either to possess happiness or misery, according to
our deserts---to avoid all painful sensations on the æra of death is to
pursue faithfully the grand dictates of our Creator, whilst he gives us
strength and power; for without a serious, diligent and punctual
attention thereto, the mind must inevitably be much discomposed and
filled with imaginations too great to be described, by heretofore
neglecting the functions of _that_ duty which he (the Supreme) so
strictly commands us to perform. How many of our worthy citizens have
been lately cut off, and how many are now on the brink of leaving this
world in their youthful prime.
My good friends, do but think of the uncertainty of life, and remember
that no moment ought to be neglected in assiduously applying ourselves
to the devotion of God, which will secure to us the happiness of
futurity.