How to Die in Faith

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 5, 1885

How to Die in Faith.

EVER since Jesus said, “I will come again,” saints have been expecting, longing for his return. Death has not been their hope, but his coming, which shall abolish death, has. Yet millions have died, and we may die before he comes. It is well, therefore, to be ready to die in faith.

If you would be so happy as to die in faith, take this advice:—

1. Be careful to get faith beforehand; for death is a time to use faith, not to get it. They were foolish virgins who had their oil to buy when the bridegroom was close at hand; so, too, they are foolish who must get faith on a dying bed.

2. Study to live every day in the exercise of faith, and be still improving and making use of Christ in all his offices, and for all those ends and uses for which God hath given him to believers.

3. Frequently clear up the evidence of your title to the kingdom of heaven, and beware of letting sin blot it.

4. Record and lay up the experiences of God's kind dealings with you, and be often reflecting upon them, that you may have them ready at hand in the hour of death.

5. Meditate much on those promises which have been sweet and comfortable to you in time of trial, and beg that the Lord may bring them to your remembrance if you are to die.—Sel.