The sweeter morsel for the worm!
(Charles Spurgeon, "The Profit of Godliness in the Life to Come")
holding promise for both the present
life and the life to come." 1 Timothy 4:8
How many live for that poor body
of theirs which so soon must
moulder back to the dust!
To dress,
to adorn themselves,
to catch the glance of the admirer's eye,
to satisfy public taste,
to follow fashion--
surely an object in life more
frivolous never engrossed
an immortal soul!
It seems as strange as if an angel
should be gathering daisies, or
blowing soap bubbles!
An immortal spirit living . . .
to dress the body,
to paint the face,
to dye the hair,
to display a ribbon,
to show off a pin--
is this the pursuit of an immortal being?
Yet tens of thousands
live for little else!
As for earth's most lovely ones--
how do time, and death, and
the worm together, make
havoc of them!
Take up yonder skull, just upturned
by the sexton's careless spade, and
take it to the yonder beauty, and tell
her, though she paint an inch thick--
to this complexion she must come at last!
All her dressing shall end in a shroud--
and all her makeup and her dainty
ornaments shall only make her
the sweeter morsel for the worm!Beloved friends, there is another
life beyond this fleeting existence!
Why then, do you waste your
time and degrade your souls
with these frivolities?
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