Above: A Cemetery, Between 1904 and 1920
Photograph Created by the Detroit Publishing Co.
Image Source = Library of Congress
(http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/det1994002361/PP/)
Reproduction Number = LC-D4-25 X
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EDITOR’S NOTE:
It is certain that St. Paul the Apostle did not write 2 Timothy.
KENNETH RANDOLPH TAYLOR
MAY 29, 2013 COMMON ERA
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2 Tim. 4, 8 & 18 (Revised Version of 1881)
1. Paul, at the end of his pilgrimage, looks with confidence to the future. He had lived well and now trusts God for the beyond. He stands not aghast; is confident.
2. He will live beyond the grave.
(1) God’s word assures us of heaven and a fuller, happier life. Jesus is there and he is our humanity. “In my flesh shall I see God.” Lazarus and Dives are conscious beyond the grave.
(2) Man’s life on the moral basis suggests more than life here.
(3) Man’s influence dies not with him. When the horse dies he is dead; man lives on in the influence he still has over others.
(4) Living and dying he is conscious of a future. The body totters, the mind is young and reaches out after God. Christ spoke of his “exodus.”
3. The reward for conduct here awaits him there–“a crown of righteousness”–the results of right living–heaven’s eternal joys. “And for all that love his appearing.”
4. To the righteous dying is but going home–“Safe at home forever,/And that’s enough for me!”
GEORGE WASHINGTON BARRETT
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