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This Life and the Life to Come

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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 46.

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This Life and the Life to Come.

Bishop Hooper was martyred in 1555. When he came to die, one said to him, “O, sir, consider that life is sweet and death is bitter.” To which he replied, “Life to come is more sweet; and death to come more bitter.” And so he went quietly to the stake.
The way to save our life forever, if we are indeed the Christ’s disciples, is to lose it here, if need be, for his sake. “He that loseth his life shall find it.” If we are self-considering, and will spare ourselves at the Master’s cost, we do so to our eternal cost. Let us look on ourselves as beasts of slaughter, and suffer patiently the injuries of the wicked.