last made up for all. Death is only a kiss to those who
love God; and if I had not followed the will of my God in this, what
had I not lost? I had missed burial at the hands of the sons of God,
and my feet would not now be standing in His presence."

Then Elias might say: "I had no fear of death: nay, I even prayed for
it, saying, O Lord, take away my life, for I am not better than my
fathers. It was not death that I feared so much as the fashion of
dying when I fled from the face of Jezebel. But to-day I am thankful
that my dying was not left to my choosing; if it had been so, I had
missed the fiery chariot by which I climbed up to the Presence of my
King,--the swift seraphic march that brought me home."

And then Jesus might say, perhaps, something like these words--

I wish to have no wishes left,
But to leave all to Thee...
And yet two wills I find in Me
When on My death I muse;
But, Lord, I have a death to die,
And not a death to choose.

Then Moses might speak again: "Let us call God's providences by their
sweetest names: death is not death to those who love God. Thou, O
Sinless One, call it not death, call it exodus. It was my lot once to
lead the people of God out of slavery and degradation, out of heavy
labour, out of the furnace of iron; and yet methinks that will be the
true exodus when Thy people pass over, O Lord, Thy people, whom Thou
hast redeemed, when Thou by Thy dying lips dost proclaim deliverance to
the captive, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
when, through the deep sea of Thy sorrows, a passage is made by which
the ransomed shall return. Call it not death; call it an exodus--a
mighty deliverance of the people of God."

Then Elias: "O Son of God, right well do I know that the strength of
one man may be made the strength of many; and the triumph of many may
spring from the victory of one. I myself have stood alone in the face
of an opposing people; yet by the strength of God I came off conqueror,
and many were persuaded to cry, 'The Lord, He is God; the Lord, He is
God,' and the power yet remains in which I stood; it glows, and grows
within thee; it floods the air; it streams down thy garments. Fear
not! thou shalt bring many souls, not merely to assent to the truth,
but to the Truth itself. And especially standing conqueror over death,
thou shalt deliver them who were all their lives in bondage through the
fear of the same. The love of God shall