The Terror of an Unprepared Death
A SOLEMN TESTIMONY.—Dr. Spring, reviewing his long ministerial career, gives the following testimony, which is instructive, solemn, and full of warning: “I have seen Universalists and infidels die, and during a ministry of fifty-five years I have not found a single instance of peace and joy in their new views of eternity. No, nothing but an accusing conscience, and the terrors of apprehension. I have seen men die who were men of mercurial temperament, men of pleasure and fun, men of taste and literature, lovers of the opera and the theatre, rather than the house of God; and I never saw an instance in which such persons died in peace. They died as they lived. Life was a blank, and death the king of terrors; a wasted life, an undone eternity!”