knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity.

The end of the commandment is charity, out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.

Follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith; lay hold on eternal life.

The world passeth away, and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.

Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

DEATH.

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?

As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

For what is your life? It is even as a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Thou turnest man to destruction, and sayest, "Return, ye children of men." The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold thou hast made my days as an hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee. Surely every man walketh in a vain show. He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of

men.

Precious, in the sight of the Lord, is the death of his saints.

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

COMFORT IN SORROW.

WHEN thou art in tribulation, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice, he will not forsake thee.

The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

The Lord will not cast off forever; but ough he cause grief, yet will he have comassion, according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?

Happy is the man whom God correcteth; for he maketh sore and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

Despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary of his correction; for whom the Lord loveth he correcteth, even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

If

ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Though Jesus were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.

Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them that are exercised thereby. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might, through the thanksgiving of many, redound to the glory of God. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of

glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us.

There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

IMMORTAL LIFE.

THEN shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God, who gave it.

God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave.

For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of