“It is true, then, beyond all controversy that the soul is immortal, and now with this conclusion is connected a train of the most solemn and momentous truths. Before each one of us stretches this immortality with all the pomp of the judgment day and with all the weight of eternal years. We are in this life only upon the threshold of our being. This is but the springtime of which eternity is the great harvest period. Let us remember that every ticking of the clock, and every pulse that throb in our hearts, brings us nearer to the fearful realities of this eternal state. Are we prepared for the summons that shall call us away? Are we clothed in His Gospel? Let us so live that we may be able to address our souls with those sublime words of the poet,

“The stars shall fade away-the sun himself,
Grow dim with age and nature sink in years,
But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth,
Unhurt amidst the war of elements,
The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds.” — T.D. Witherspoon, The Immortality of the Soul (1868)