The American National Preacher, 1851, Vol. 25

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Excerpt from The American National Preacher, 1851, Vol. 25: Original-Monthly, From Living Ministers of the United StatesBut w en they come to die, the whole scene is changed. Life is then seen to be indeed but a vapor, that appeareth for a little moment, and then vanisheth away. All the months and years they have assed' on earth are then compressed, as it were, into a point, and) seem more like a. Dream than a reality. Hear how the worthies, whose names are recorded in the Bible, spoke on this subject, as they approached the close of life. My days, says Job, are swifter than a post, they are passed away as a shadow. Remember how short thy time is, ' cries the Psalm ist. Behold thou hast made my days as a handbreadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee, as for man, his days are as grass, in the morning it is green, in the eveninor it is cut down and withered. And the patriarch J acch, though he had lived an hundred and thirty ears, felt constrained to say, Few and evil have the days of t e 'ears of my life been.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.