Death revealing Secrets – Charles Spurgeon

THE hour of death has often served as a touchstone by which formality has been revealed. Men have felt the mask rudely plucked off when lying at death’s gate. They have been compelled to see the leprosy in their brow, which they had feared to think upon before; they have discovered then the foul and reeking pollutions concealed within their hearts, which aforetime they had filmed over with religious duties, and virtues, and professions. Sepulcher light is brighter than we think: the dying bed is a great revealer of secrets.