Gold Nugget 273 - Trembling Hope

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      When the wicked dies, everything, except, indeed, the evil influences he has created and circulated, comes to a dreary end.  His expectation, his hope, perishes.  He can take nothing that he has toiled for into that other world which he is entering.  All his laborious exertion, his elaborate contrivances, his selfish schemes, his painful humiliations, come to nothing; they are buried in the grave.

      He may have a powerful and well-stored mind, but he has cherished no desire, has entertained no ambition which reaches beyond the horizon of mortal life, and with the stopping of his heartbeat, every imagination of his spirit perishes; there is an untimely and utter end of all his brightest hopes.  A sad and dismal outlook for a human spirit! 

      How great and how blessed the contrast of a good man!  His largest hopes are then on the point of being realized; his purest and brightest expectations are about to be fulfilled.  This earth is, more or less, the scene of disappointment; but in the country whose bourne he is about to cross, he will find himself where

                        “Trembling Hope shall realize

                          Her full felicity.”

The Pulpit Commentary, Proverbs p. 230, Proverbs 11:7-10, (W. Clarkson)

Gold Nugget 273

Trembling Hope

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