John Ross Macduff

Sunsets on the Hebrew Mountains John Ross Macduff

If tho following pages contained a mere roll and record of death-bed scenes, they would form a gloomy volume. Such, however, is not their purport. While the Author has occasionally dwelt (as in the two opening chapters) on the closing hours of Scripture worthies, whenever incidents of note in connexion with these are recorded, he has, in general, rather sought to make their last days the standpoint for a retrospective view of character and history. It has been his endeavour mainly to inculcate, not so much lessons from death, as lessons from life viewed from this its solemn termination. As an eloquent writer has remarked, . D eath is often at once the close and the epitome of existenca It is the index at the end of a volume. All a mans properties seem to gather round him as he is about to leave, the world. There is often, moreover, a mellowed glory surrounding the hour of dissolution. God ssaints are like forest trees in their golden autumn tints grandest in decay, when the hand of death is on them. They often hear, like Bunyan shero, distant bells from the land of Beulah.
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