Vers. 13, 14. _The Sleep of the Faithful Departed._

+I. The dead are said to be asleep because we know they shall wake

up again.+

+II. Because they whom men call dead do really live unto God.+

+III. Because they are taking their rest.+

+IV. Death is changed to sleep, so that it becomes a pledge of rest

and a prophecy of the resurrection.+

+Lessons.+--1. _We ought to mourn rather for the living than for the

dead._ 2. _In very truth it is life rather than death that we ought

to fear.--H. E. Manning._