He charged them to profit by the present occasion, to bring home to their hearts the unwelcome truth that death was inevitable.

He pointed to the coffin that contained the remains of one who had attained so great an age, as to make her an object of wonder in the neighborhood.

Yet her time had come, like a thief in the night.

There was no sickness, no sudden failing, nothing unusual in her appearance, to intimate the presence of death.

God had given her a long time of health to prepare for the great change; he had given her every opportunity to repent, and he had called her to her account.