Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Peter and Susan Lesley
It is appointed unto men once to die, and after this cometh judgment. - hebrews ix. 27 (rev.
Every day, by Speech or in silence, we pass judgment upon our fellows; and, when they die, we sum up our little imperfect knowledges, mixed with guesses and impressions, and pronounce a qualified sentence of praise or blame for the deeds done in the body This fact of itself has made thought ful men in all ages regard death as a solemn crisis in the history of a man. It is the closing of a chap ter, the making up and balancing of an account. Our moral sense, in its small way, affirms that every man must at last pass for what he is, when his life is reviewed and his character scrutinized by the All-seeing.
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