For all that is fit must come to pass in the land of fitnesses--that is, the land where all is just as it ought to be.'-- That's how I could fancy I heard my father answer you." "With that answer I am well content," said Joseph.--"But you don't want to die, do you, Mary ?" "No; I want to live.

And I've got such a blessed plenty of life while waiting for more, that I am quite content to wait.

But I do wonder that some people I know, should cling to what they call life as they do.

It is not that they are comfortable, for they are constantly complaining of their sufferings; neither is it from submission to the will of God, for to hear them talk you must think they imagine themselves hardly dealt with; they profess to believe the Gospel, and that it is their only consolation; and yet they speak of death as the one paramount evil.

In the utmost weariness, they yet seem incapable of understanding the apostle's desire to depart and be with Christ, or of imagining that to be with him can be at all so good as remaining where they are.