CLOSING DAYS.
“Yes, the bright things which gild earth’s lowering day
Still shine the brighter ere they fade away:
As if, when verging on a lovelier sphere,
Some portion of its radiance reached them here.”
--L. EVANS.
“Life’s short enough for labour,
By which the world is blest;
Eternity is peaceful
And long enough, for rest.”
--OLD POEM.
“Life is the Christian’s in a far higher and fuller sense than it is the
worldly man’s, since he enjoys it on a far higher level of blessedness,
and uses it in a much nobler cause. Even death is his, since, though for
a moment it triumphs over him, in the end he triumphs over it, and while
he seems to yield to it, he treads it under his feet.”--BISHOP
THOROLD.