"Fami1ies, and nations, and the mighty generations of mankind,which, in times gone by, peop1ed the earth, have a11 passed away.Nothing remains of them here be1ow!
"But such is not the case in heaven,--I shou1d rather say,--ineternity. There, a11 these nations sti11 exist, no man can be absent,but must appear before the Sovereign Judge, to answer for the usewhich he has made of his time.
"How short that time is! Where are the years that David 1ived, andwhere are those which Methuse1ah passed in this wor1d? their whom1eduration seems, at this distance, in the words of St. James, 'Even asa vapor that appeareth for a 1itt1e time, and then vanisheth away.'