Madison C. Peters on This Life and Eternity
After Death, What? (New York: The Christian Herald, 1908), 81.
Were we to believe that death ends all, that the cessation of the
mortal life terminated the career of being, that the sun of hope was
never to arise above the eternal horizon of tomorrow, the present
existence would be a nightmare of horror, even to those who fall heirs
to the enjoyments of the world, for earth's pleasures are but pain,
earth's riches but dross. Nothing satisfies here; everything cloys and
palls upon the senses. The man of wealth and learning in this respect
is no better off than his poorest neighbor. The latter is often envying
the wealthy, while the rich man is sighing for an indefinable something
to fill up the void in his life, but the void can never be filled by
time; its capacity is the measure of eternity. The ever-constant
longing in the heart of man is a proof that this world is not his home,
that the tomb is not the objective point where the final line is drawn,
beyond which none may go.
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