High Matters

My brethren, think hoe certainly death will come upon you all.
The very youngest among you know very well that manhood will come,
and old age will come,
and the dying bed will come,
and the very last look you shall ever cast on your acquaintances will come,
and the agony of the parting breath will come,
and the time when you are stretched a lifeless corpse before the eyes of
weeping relatives will come, and the coffin that is to enclose you will come,
and the throwing in of the loose earth into the narrow house where you are laid,
and the spreading of the green sod over it-all, all will come on every living creature who now hears me.

And in a few little years the minister who now speaks,
and the people who now listen, will be carried to their last homes and make room for another generation.
Lay it seriously to heart,
and no longer trifle and delay,
when the high matters of death and judgment and eternity are thus set before you.
The day of final reckoning will come,
and the appearance of the Son of God
in heaven will come,
and the opening of books will come,
the standing of all generations before the judgment-seat will come.
and if you refuse to be reconciled in the name of Sion,
I must tell you that sentence is to be..
"Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire,
prepared for the devil and his angels."