· upon hundred centuries of dwelling with the Lord, look back upon your little heap of earthly gold the honors and flatteries of this life- upon the assembly-room, the opera, and like amusements. Can you anticipate the contempt of heaven? Live, then, not as a mortal, but an immortal being. Give to eternity, as well as time, a tongue, and let it speak. Let it tell you the worth of present vanities. Let its solemn tones break in upon your ambitious schemes, upon your luxuries, your earthly toil and discontent. "Forever, forever, forever!" exclaimed a holy man of former years, in the midst of a repast. Friends could not quiet him; he had been pondering upon heaven, and was so swallowed up with the thoughts of eternity that he could not but cry, "Forever, forever, forever! Let Grasp not at bubbles; chase not shadows. not the pitiful honors and treasures of a world soon to be burnt up, arrest you on the path to glory. Believe and live for eternity. We are borderers upon eternity; we live on the marches between two worlds. The present is only the dim dawn of our being. Can we longer live so insensible to our destiny? to the eternal verities? "Let us eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow we die." 0, philosophy for the brutes! Go, stamp the image of a swine on your gold grave scorpions on emerald and topaz-but do not so degrade your deathless soul by the grovelling impress of earth. "I paint for eternity," said Zeuxis, when asked why he took such unwearied pains with his performance. Live, O man, woman, live for eternity! Live in the sobriety and elevation of our hope to be forever with the Lord. "Forever with the Lord! Life from the dead is in that word, "T is immortality. Here in the body pent, Absent from him I roam; Yet nightly pitch my moving tent Forever with the Lord! Father, if 't is thy will, The promise of that faithful word E'en here to me fulfil. 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