By LEGH RICHMOND.
WHAT a word, what a thought, is Eternity! What prospects does it set before us! What inconceivable mysteries are involved in it! How does it make the things of time dwindle into insignificance! But what questions of unspeakable import are involved in it! Sin, a corrupt nature, a broken law, an offended God, eternal punishment: conscience, guilt, regeneration, salvation by Christ, faith, hope, love, free grace, undeserved mercy, justification, calling, adoption into God’s family, pardon of sin, consolation in Christ, heaven, and glory. These, and a thousand other accompaniments, are all connected with the idea and the reality of eternity.
What a sad proof of the, depravity of our heart is our indifference towards thinking, and our backwardness towards speaking, upon the things which belong to our everlasting peace!