Whosoever liveth and believeth in me, shall never die. Believest thou this? For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY A. TOMPKINS. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1851, BY A. TOMPKINS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. Stereotyped by BV 4905 A34 PREFACE. THIS Volume is intended as a successor to "The Christian's Triumph," issued by the author some years since; though more specially designed than that as a companion for the sick-room, and as a gift-book for the bereaved and mourning. The aim of the author has been to bring before the reader such representations of the New Testament instruction in respect to the present and the future life, as are needed at any hour of this transient earthly being; that the living may learn to die, the dying be sustained by the hope of Immortality, and the heart bereaved in the departure of some dear kindred or friend, have that faith which shall see the departed "Not lost, but gone before." The death scenes here presented are such as have occurred since the issue of the volume already alluded to. They are selections from |