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Religion for This Life and the Next

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 28, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 4.

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Religion for This Life and the Next

How DEEPLY rooted is the feeling that religion has a chief value with reference to the life beyond the grave. This is illustrated in the familiar story of the woman who, when asked if her sick husband wouldn't like a neighboring clergyman to call and see him, answered promptly, “Oh no! he's not so sick as all that!” Again it is grimly suggested in the common display of the full address of sexton and undertaker on the outer wall of a city church, even where no name of a pastor appears,—in case a man wanted help for the living instead of the dead. Religion has its bearings on the life that to come, but not to the neglect of this life.—Sel.