Now it is with this intense passion for being, that the
idea of death clashes. Let us search why it is we shrink from death. This
reason brethren, we shall find, that it presents to us the idea of not being.
Talk as we will of immortality, there is an obstinate feeling that we cannot
master, that we end in death; and that may be felt together with the firmest
belief of a resurrection. Brethren, our faith tells us one thing, and our
sensations tell us another. When we die, we are surrendering in truth all that
with which we have associated existence. All that we know of life is connected
with a shape, a form, a body of materialism; and now that that is palpably
melting away into nothingness, the boldest heart may be excused a shudder, when
there is forced upon it, in spite of itself, the idea of ceasing forever.
Frederick W Robertson in his sermon on Victory over Death, in Sermons Preached at Brighton, Third Series.
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