Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A SERMON Preached In The Chapel Of Yale College, March 14,1858, THE FIRST SUNDAY AFTER THE DEATH OF REV. NATHANIEL W. TAYLOR, D. D., D wight Professor of Didactic Theology. BY GEORGE P. FISHER, Livingston Professor of Divinity. DANIEL XII. 8. And They That Be Wise Shall Shine As The Brightness OF THE FIRMAMENT; AND THEY THAT TURN MANY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, AS THE STARS FOREVER AND EVER. What glorious promises are held out, in the Bible, to those who spend their lives in bringing sinners to God ! They are pronounced blessed even in their persecutions. Having a part in the sufferings of Christ, they go to reign with Him on high. They are forever lifted above the troubles of this dying existence, as the firmament is exalted above the earth. In the sphere to which they are removed, they are like the stars set in the tranquil sky. No man can pluck them down out of the hand of the Father. They are together there in heaven, shining on one another, with a mingled radiance, reflected from " the Lamb who is the light thereof." They do not die and pass away like the inhabitants of the earth, but they resemble the stars which have held their course undimmed, from the morning of creation until now. Their life is everlasting?an everlasting progress in knowledge, and purity, and blessedness. Yea, when the stars shall fall, and the heaven depart as a scroll, the Apostles of God will continue, near their Kedeemer forever and ever ! We cherish the hope that the venerated father whose body we have lately committed to the grave, was a true minister of Christ; and that Christ was with him, according to the promise, unto the end, and that now he is with Christ in the mansions prepared for His followers. We honor the Creator when we recognize any real excellence to be fcmnd in h...