patient. It has given them

The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength and skill;

and so shaped them into the likeness of Christ, who was made perfect by
suffering; and though He were a Son, yet in the days of His flesh made
strong supplication, and crying with tears to His Father, and was heard
in that He feared; and so, though He died on the Cross and descended into
Hell, yet triumphed over Death and Hell by dying and descending, and
conquered them by submitting to them.

_Good News of God_--_Sermons_.

VI. OUT OF THE DEEP OF DEATH.

My heart is disquieted within me, and the fear of death has fallen
upon me.--Ps. iv. 4.

My flesh and my heart faileth, but God is the strength of my
heart.--Ps. lxiii. 25.

Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will
fear no evil, for Thou art with me.--Ps. xxiii. 4.

Thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my
feet from falling.--Ps. cxvi. 8.

What will become of us after we die? What will the next world be like?
What is heaven like? Shall I be able to enjoy it? Shall I be a man
there, or only a ghost, a spirit without a body?

To this St. Paul answers, that Christ, the Son of God, after that He was
manifested in the flesh, was received up into glory. He does not tell us
what heaven is like, for though he had been caught up into the third
heaven, yet what he saw there was unspeakable. Neither does he tell us
what the next life will be like; all he says is, the Man Christ Jesus,
who walked this earth like other men, was received up into glory, and He
did not leave His man's mind, His man's heart, even His man's body behind
Him. He carried up into heaven with Him His whole manhood, spirit, soul,
and body, even to the print of the nails in His hands, and in His most
holy feet, and the wound of the spear in His most holy side. That is
enough for us; because the Man Christ Jesus is in heaven, we, as men, may
ascend to heaven. Where He is we shall be. And what He is, in as far as
He is Man, we shall be. And this we do know, that we shall be like Him,
for we shall see Him as He is.

_National Sermons_.

Men are afraid of dying, principally, I believe, because they fear the
unknown. It is not that they are afraid of the pain of dying. It is not
that they are afraid of going to hell. Neither is it that they are
afraid of not going to heaven. But when t