The soldier's funeral.

Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The soldier's funeral. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and conversation ;—if you want better to understand, and more habitually and stedfastly to rest upon God’s holy word, and to have your affections, your temper, your conversation and conduct regulated by its pure and self-denying principles ;—if you delight in draw-. ing near unto the Father of your spirit, by prayer through Christ, and esteem it your greatest privilege and happiness ;—in a word—if you ardently desire to be sanctified throughout in body, soul, and spirit, by the Holy Ghost dwelling in you, and to “live by faith upon the Son of God,” for the supply of your need, whether for body or soul, for life or death, for time or eternity,—THEN, when your body shall be com- mitted to the dust, and “arise not till the heavens be no more,” in answer to the all-important question, ‘* WHERE IS HE?” it may be replied, he has “‘ entered into the rest that remains for the people of God :” he is “with the spirits of the just made perfect :” he “has departed to be with Christ,” in whose “ pre- sence is fulness of joy, and at whose right hand are: pleasures for evermore.” But if, on the other hand, thou art living ‘‘ without God in the world”—ignorant of thyself and of Him, with whom thou hast to do: careless and uncon--} cerned about thine immortal soul, a sabbath-breaker, , a profane person, a drunkard, an adulterer, a de-- spiser of that which is good ; if thou art such as any; of these, and thou shouldest depart out of this world! in the same state,—then (most solemn and affecting, thought!) the Bible declares that, at the last greatt day, thou shalt be found on the deft-hand of the Judge: of quick and dead, who seated upon his throne of