"No subject is of such paramount or absorbing interest to man as that of death and the future life. "If a man die shall he live again?" is the question springing from every heart, and trembling on every lip. To every home death comes. To every one it is appointed once to die. Does death then, end all? Shall we write over our cemeteries, "Death is an eternal sleep"?
Thank God we are not left in darkness on this intensely practical and important theme. Light, somewhat dim and struggling, it is true, comes from the fact that all the phenomena of mind are different from those of the perishable body, that our instincts and aspirations are for continued existence, that the best and longest life on earth is an imperfect and therefore an incomplete life, that our sense of justice demands a future state for the vindication of right and the punishment of wrong, that the almost universal sentiment or conviction of the race has been in favor of a life to come of some kind or character.
But these considerations and others of a similar nature afford a mere probability only of the reality of an existence beyond the grave. The Christian Revelation makes that probability an assured certainty. Out of the region of wishful hope, of a strong foreboding, of a reasonable peradventure, it transports us to a world of glorious fact. Death is but a passage to another life. Death is but the vestibule to the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Death is but a shadow, not a substance. The dead are the truly living. From the skies, the world's Prophet, Priest and King has come, incarnated in a human body, enshrining a human soul. From Joseph's tomb He rose, the body the same, yet changed, the manhood changed, yet the same. Back to his native skies has He gone with the same body and the same manhood that manifested His divine nature while on the earth. By His life, death, resurrection and ascension, He hath abolished death and brought life and immortality to light.
With him the departed saints have life in richness and fullness inconceivable to us who are still amid the turmoils of this mortal existence. The personality they possessed here, they have there. They are the same, and yet changed. They know us still. They sympathize with us still. They love us still. They help us still. To that heavenly home they are waiting to welcome us when our warfare is accomplished." Rev. Fallows
Reflections, Poetry and Sermons About Death & Life In Heaven:
- Death Is Life
- Death An Angel of Light
- Right and Wrong Views of Death
- The Dead Are The Living
- Influence of The Dead...
- Hope Beyond The Grave
- The Buds Opening in Heaven
- The Dead Live Beyond
- The Christian's Death
- Heaven Is Full of Children
- The Hope of Immortality
- The Immortal Life
- Many Mansions
- Journey To Heaven
- Thoughts In Sickness
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