(1 Thess. 4:13).

It does not say that we are not to weep or sorrow when the Lord takes a beloved one away from us. A man would not be a man that could not weep. Jesus wept at the grave of Lazarus. But we are not to sorrow "as those who have no hope." We have a source of comfort that the world knows nothing of. It is a libel on what God has done for us if we sorrow as the world. We ought to pity the world in its times of bereavement and sorrow. God's children ought not to sorrow as the world. There are many sorrows beside the loss of friends. Life is full of it. If God did not permit sorrow to be felt while here we would make the world our rest. J. R. Caldwell