The base cares and the petty
enjoyments of the present world
(John Angell James)
Sin is raging all around us!
Satan is busy in the work
of destruction!
Men are dying!
Souls are every moment
departing into eternity!
Hell is enlarging her mouth,
and multitudes are continually
descending to torments which
knows no mitigation and no end!
How astounding is it sometimes
to ourselves, that, the base cares
and the petty enjoyments of
the present world should have
so much power over us, as to retard
us in our heavenward course, and
make us negligent and indolent,
heedless and forgetful.
Time is short!
Life is uncertain!
Death is at hand!
Immortality is about to swallow
up our existence in eternal life--
or eternal death!
Heaven expanding above us!
Hell is yawning beneath us!
Eternity is opening before us!
enjoyments of the present world
(John Angell James)
Sin is raging all around us!
Satan is busy in the work
of destruction!
Men are dying!
Souls are every moment
departing into eternity!
Hell is enlarging her mouth,
and multitudes are continually
descending to torments which
knows no mitigation and no end!
How astounding is it sometimes
to ourselves, that, the base cares
and the petty enjoyments of
the present world should have
so much power over us, as to retard
us in our heavenward course, and
make us negligent and indolent,
heedless and forgetful.
Time is short!
Life is uncertain!
Death is at hand!
Immortality is about to swallow
up our existence in eternal life--
or eternal death!
Heaven expanding above us!
Hell is yawning beneath us!
Eternity is opening before us!
not consumed, because HIS compassions
fail not. They are new every morning:
great is THY Faithfulness."
(Lamentations 3:22,23)
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