Farewell to Time Author:Thomas Wright Subtitle: Or, Lost Views of Life, and Prospects of Immortality : Including Devotional Exercises, a Great Variety of Which Are in the Language of Scripture, to Be Used by the Sick, and by Those Who Minister to Them General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1828 Original Publisher: W.B. Gilley Subjects: Sick Notes: This ... more »is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: X CONSIDERATIONS CALCULATED TO LESSEN THE FJBAR OF DEATH. Psalm xxiii. 4. Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. . In the first place, all men die, -- and death, therefore, cannot be regarded as, in itself, an evil, but only as part of that mysterious, but good and wise plan, which Divine Providence has appointed for the final perfecting of his works. It is, also, in this view, but part of the inheritance to which all were born, -- and we should, consequently, accept it, with the same trust and thankfulness, with which we have seen reason to meet all the other portion's of our history. Above all, this consideration ought to teach us, that, in leaving this world, we are going "not to the dead but to the living," -- to the innumerable Company of all times and of all countries, who now people the invisible dominions of God, -- to the Prophets, and Apostles, and Wise Men, and Saints, who were, in their day, " the Excellent Ones of the earth," -- and who, like us, left this world, not that they might resign the enjoyment of existence, but that they might join the countless Host of the Spiritual Kingdom of God. In the second place, men obviously meet their last hours under very different circumstances, -- some being cut off suddenly, -- others by slow and almostimperceptible decay, -- afew amidstpleasing antic...« less