ily death: "It is appointed
unto man once to die." "Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou
return." If any supposes the death of the body to be a small thing,
let such a one go to a well-filled graveyard and pass one hour in
serious meditation in this silent city of the dead. Let him think of
the tears that have fallen there, of the sighs of anguish that have
reluctantly escaped from broken hearts. Let him think of the innocent
beauty and loveliness that lie buried there, of the hopes and the joys
that have been driven from the heart by the hand of the destroyer; and
then let him ask himself if "the wages of sin" is a thing of small
account. Let his mind run a little further, and he can but see that
the graveyard's solemn tale to the end of the world must be yearly
told. Death here writes his name anew every passing season in the
fresh mounds raised above the dead. And not only so, but the voice of
reason whispers into the ear of every passer-by the solemn word, "This
place is waiting for you."

Now, an apostle says: "It doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we
know that when he shall appear we shall be like him; for we shall see
him as he is." And another apostle, as if commenting on this passage
says: "He shall change our vile bodies that they may be fashioned like
unto his glorious body." I now ask, Does not this show that the
salvation in the text is truly _a great salvation_? But I have as yet
but touched the hem of the garment. And, indeed, in our low and
contracted state of mental power here we are barely able with our
highest and broadest reaches of thought to lay hold of more than the
hem of salvation's garment. "Heaven is his throne, and the earth is
the footstool of his feet." What the footstool is to the throne, nay
to him that sits upon it, such are our highest and purest conceptions
to the salvation which the Lord has provided. "Eye hath not seen, nor
ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to know what
God hath provided for them that love him."

I stated that man's life is lost. I have said something about the
bodily life that is lost by sin. I now turn to say something about the
spiritual life that is lost by sin. Paul says, and I am sure he means
what he says: "To be carnally minded is death." Now, what is it to be
carnally minded? Or, in other words, what is the carnal mind? Paul
answers in a general way, that it is ENMITY against God. Such a degree
of enmity that all who are ca