Earthly Things, Vanity of—In view of Death – Charles Spurgeon

HAVE you never seen the hoary saint stayed upon the pillows, prophesying like a seer concerning the things of this world and of the world to come? Have you never heard him deliver sentences as weighty as the verdict of a judge? “What,” says he, “what are all these earthly things to me now, now that I am about to leave them? They are all bubbles and emptinesses.” Solomon in his life could not moralize with such force as holy men do in their deaths: and then, as they point the finger to eternity, and tell of worlds to come, and of the need of being prepared for the tremendous day of the great assize, they appear as if, clothed in their white clothing, they were performing a rehearsal of the last dread judgment. Many who care not for the voice of the ministry, nor even for the witness of God’s written word, have felt the power of the speeches of men standing on the borders of eternity.