Behold the epitaph of all those blessed saints who fell asleep before the coming of our Lord! It matters nothing how else they died, this one point, in which they all agree, is the most worthy of record, "they all died in faith." In faith they lived—it was their comfort, their guide, their motive, and

their support; and in the same spiritual grace they died, ending their life-song in the sweet strain in which they had so long continued. They did not die resting in the flesh or upon their own attainments; they made no advance from their first way of acceptance with God, but held to the way of faith to the end.

We do not enjoy the high privilege of John to lean upon Jesus' bosom, nor of Paul to be caught up into the third Heaven, but we have an equal share in the heart of our Redeemer if indeed we are believers in him. What we have not is by no means so great

as what we have. The privileges coming to all the saints are infinitely greater than the small matters in which they differ.