not mourn for them as those without hope, we should not give vent to grief as though they were lost to us altogether they are hidden, but not lost, removed from our sight, but not extinct; they are still alive, only with a more exquisite vitality unfettered by sin, unencumbered by flesh, undefiled by the world, dwelling as redeemed spirits in the paradise of God.

And this remark leads us to make one final observation, viz. that when we see the sun set, we know that it will rise again; and so when we see the body of our friends borne to the voiceless dwelling of the tomb, we know that they also shall rise again.

Rise when? When the

Every night of death is followed by a resurrection morning. How precious is the thought as connected with God's people, that they shall rise from the dead! How rise? With glorified bodies, upon which the second death has no power. Rise by what power? By the mighty power of God. Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with all his mighty angels, then shall they be caught up to meet him in the air. Rise to what? To glory, honour, and immortality in the presence-chamber of God. How these thoughts light up with brightness every sepulchre of the righteous! How the doctrine of the resurrection throws a halo over every Christian's head-stone, and makes each open grave a little postern-gate leading into glory!

Reader, have you lost a father, mother, brother, sister, wife, husband, child, or lover, and were they Christ's before they died? Then lift up your heads, wipe away your tears, cheer up your hearts, for they

shall come forth again before your face. Their sunset, though it left you in gloom and midnight sorrow, will soon be followed by the dawn of Resurrection day; and when the archangel's trump shall sound out over land and sea, awaking the myriads who slumber in earth's bosom, then shall your beloved ones who sunk to rest in Jesus, rise again, and go forth to meet and glorify their adorable Redeemer.

Thoughts like these cluster around the setting sun of the aged disciple of Jesus: Why should we wish to detain him? his work is done. Why desire to hold him back from the grave? it is through the gate and grave of death that he passes to his inheritance above. Why be inconsolable at his departure? he is not lost, neither is the light of his mind or heart extinguished. Why mourn as those who have no hope, beside his tombstone? He shall not lie there long. He is planted there in the likeness of Christ's death, that he may rise with Christ to the resurrection of eternal life; and not many more days shall roll over you, ere you and they shall all rise again; "they that have done good to the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation."

Rejoice rather when one you love, who is full of days. and full of grace, sets like a sun behind the horizon of life. Rejoice, for he shall rise again; and when that morning of the resurrection dawns, it will usher in a day that has no clouds, a day that has no sunset, and a day that is followed by no night of sorrow or of death.

STEVENS.

SCRIPTURAL SELECTION.

[IN no pages, human or divine, has the decrepitude of age, and the gradual dying out of the physical powers of man, his sunset after a long day of life, been so graphically as well as poetically portrayed as in the twelfth chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes.

The aim of Solomon in this chapter is to urge upon the young an early remembrance of God, and he enforces his exhortation by so setting forth the infirmities of age as to show that that period is entirely unfitted for the great work of turning unto God.]

"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.

"While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

"In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened.

"And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low.

"Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond-tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:

"Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern:

"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."-Ecclesiastes, xii. 1-7.

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