At the time we learned of your sorrow, my mind was engaged with the records of the deaths of Sarah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph. I was noticing how, in each case, faith's comfort was in the thought that death does not annul its portion. The believer has lost nothing by death. In death he waits still for that he waited for in life. He waits for it with clearer vision, too, for to him death is gain. A clog on his enjoyment has been removed-a clog never to be resumed, for the new body will be a spiritual body, and in it promise, hope will be realized in full fruition.

Those gone on before, we miss-how much! but we are not without comfort as to them-what comfort!"