tory over the flesh, who quietly feelS the pins of his earthly tabernacle plucked up with great bodily ago- nies, and yet never murmurs or complains, but silently enjoys inward peace, — this, this again, is a man whose end brings glory to God. — We may glorify God in death, by testifying to others the comfort and support that we find in the grace of Christ. It is a great thing, when a mortal man can say with David, " Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil." (Psalm xxiii. 4.) The Christian who, like Standfast in " Pilgrim's Progress," can stand for a while in the river, and talk calmly to his companions, saying, " My foot is fixed sure : my toilsome days are ended," — this, this is a man whose end brings glory to God. Deaths like these leave a mark on the living, and are not soon forgotten.
Let us pray, while we live in health, that we may glorify God in our end. Let us leave it to God to choose the where, and when, and how, and all the man- ner of our departing. Let us only ask that it may " glorify God." He is a wise man who takes John Bun- yan's advice, and keeps his last hour continually in mind, and makes it his company-keeper. It was a weighty saying of John Wesley, when one found fault with the doctrines and practices of the Methodists, — " At any rate our people die well."
We learn, thirdly, in these verses, that whatever we may think about the condition of other people^ vne should think first about our oicn. When Peter inquired curi- ously and anxiously about the future of the Apostle John, he received from our Lord an answer of deep meaning : " If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou Me." Hard to understand as some part of that sentence may be, it contains a prac- tical lesson which cannot be mistaken. It commands 20