D. W. CLARK, in “Man all Immortal,” pp. 164, 165, says: “Life is long enough for its purposes. Long before his threescore years and ten are reached, the character is formed—we had almost said stereotyped, and sealed for eternity. For the Christian, life is long enough. Why should he wish to live longer?” “The less of this cold world, the more of Heaven. The briefer life, the earlier immortality.” “It is long enough for the sinner. If in the seventy allotted years he has done evil only, what else can we expect from him, should his life be prolonged to the greatest period? His evil habits are being constantly strengthened by indulgences; the sphere of his evil influence is growing wider and wider. Of what use to him, or to the world, or to Heaven would be a longer life? In what could it result but greater, and more wide-spread evil, deeper guilt, and in the end, more fearful punishment? In the brevity and uncertainty of human life, there, we find no cause to implead the wisdom or even the goodness of God.” “We carry down to death the character we have formed in life. It is a very common, but, at the same time, a very mistaken notion, that when we come to death we sometimes take upon us a new character. This idea is not only false in philosophy, but it is pernicious to good morals, and religion. We die as we live. We go down to the grave with the characters, the habits, the desires, the feelings we had formed in life. A man may look with horror upon his past life, but that does not change it; a man may, in the terror of approaching death, abhor himself for his worldliness and sensuality, but that does not uproot worldliness and sensuality from his character. Let him be restored to health, and they will sway the same iron rule as before. We fall asleep at night just such beings as we have been through the day, and in the succeeding morning we wake up with characters unchanged. So shall we fall asleep when the night of death comes, just such beings as we have been through life’s day; and so also shall we wake in the resurrection morning.”