...the earth, and withdrawing its vitality into its hidden source. As the saints fall asleep one by one, the " dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God that gave it." And these two miracles are ever working ; the bodies of the saints are dying...

...at a fountain, or a wheel at a cistern, the water can no longer be drawn up. And thus «' the body returns to the earth as it was ; and the spirit returns to God who gave it." How unsuitable then is the period of old age to a work which requires so earnest an exertion of all...

...ceases its action, and the pulse with it, which are the immediate forerunners of death. And " then the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it." Thus we see man's body, like some curious edifice, first battered by various...

...proprietorship are strictly discernihle in most. At the " appointed " hour the decisive stroke is given, and the "dust" returns to the "earth" as it was, and the "spirit" returns "to the God who gave it." There is "a time to die." There is a fixed, determinate period when the life...

...word death most commonly conveys the idea—temporal death, the separation of the soul from the body, when the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it. This is the consequence of our having violated the divine law: " Death hath passed...

...powers of life are gradually and almost imperceptibly extinguished, and at last, without a struggle, " the dust returns to the earth as it was; and the spirit returns unto God who gave it." We can alleviate the symptoms. We cannot cure the disease, for it is the natural...

...made of dust, is plainly distinguished from the soul, when the wise man informs us, that at death, ''the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it." J The living soul of man was created, in the proper sense of the term. It is not a quality, but a substance;...

...union exists, and that it is essential to what we call life. When 78 NO MOKE DEATH. the tie is broken, "the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns unto God who gave it." It is the presence of the soul that gives to the body its grace and beauty ;...

...consist in ' the dissolving or loosing of that band wherewith the soul was joined with the body.' ' The royal preacher in my text, assuming that man is...it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.' Horsley's Sermons, III. 189. The whole of the masterly discourse from which the preceding extract is...

...death in the disunion and final separation of these two constituent parts : Death is when ' the Uust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.' Horsley's Sermons, III. 189. The whole of the masterly discourse from which the preceding extract is...