. Religious emblems : being a series of engravings on wood, executed by the first artists of that line, from designs drawn on the blocks themselves . The Iiope of the righteous shrill be ^; but the of the wicked shall per HOPE DEPARTING. Behold the awful close of an ill-spent life! See the last friend ofhuman kind forsakes the impious man in his dying moments. Thelast lingering ray with which Hope cheers the departing spirit is with-drawn from his shuddering and benighted soul: a dreadful and aveng-ing horror seizes on his brain. Earth and heaven seem armed againsthim. Con
. Religious emblems : being a series of engravings on wood, executed by the first artists of that line, from designs drawn on the blocks themselves . The Iiope of the righteous shrill be ^; but the of the wicked shall per HOPE DEPARTING. Behold the awful close of an ill-spent life! See the last friend ofhuman kind forsakes the impious man in his dying moments. Thelast lingering ray with which Hope cheers the departing spirit is with-drawn from his shuddering and benighted soul: a dreadful and aveng-ing horror seizes on his brain. Earth and heaven seem armed againsthim. Conscience proclaims to him that the one he has outraged, andthe other he has defied. Desperate in guilt, he rejects Avith horrorthe mediation and redeeming grace of the Saviour; and, spurning hisHoly Sacrament, he sets the seal on his own destruction. THE JOYFUIL THE JOYFUL RETRIBUTION. The dying moments of the riohteous man arc clieered by the sweetassurances of approaching bliss: Hope, kindhng into confidence, pointsto the emblems of his salvation through suffering. The cup of bitter-ness, says she, has been thy portion in this world; like thy divineMaster, thou hast been despised and rejected of men, a man of sor-rows, and acquainted with grief. But here thy sufferings shall cease;expect now the glorious retribution that awaits thee; prepare now toenter into the Joys of thy Lord, to hear him pronounce the reward forthy faith and truth in this transporting sentence: Come, ye blessed!enter now into the kingdom of your Father, prei)ared for you sincethe foundation of the world; there to liynm eternal praises to him whois, who was, and is to come—Holy! llolv! Lord (iod Almiuhtv! CALL TO VIGILANCE.
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