...thee.' She said to her mother and sisters, at different times, it was a great comfort to her to think, that to be ' absent from the body' was to be ' present with the Lord.' When her desires to depart were the most lively, she expressed great submission to her sufferings,...

...sufficient. Her dependence upou the atonement was full and abiding. In the happy assurance that for her to be absent from the body was to be present with the Lord, she at last died. JC June 15th.— At Green-Hill* Stourbridge, Mr?. Ann Stinson, aged seventy-nine,...

...spirit,'' just as it was being compelled to leave the body — and the other, rejoicing in the persuasion, that to be " absent from the body'' was to "be present with the Lord" — we observe, that the same argument applies to the separate state of the souls of the wicked ; and...

...eyes under the stones of his murderers, he prayed, " Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Paul believed that to be absent from the body was to be " present with the Lord ;" and he desired " to depart and to be with Christ," which, he says, " is far better." Now jf the...

...his eyes under the stones of his murderers, he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Paul believed that to be absent from the body was to be " present with the Lord;" and he desired "to depart and to be with Christ," which, he says, " is far better." Now jf the apostle...

...spirit. But he had not so learned Christ, or the destinies of his expiring saints. He believed with St. Paul, that to be absent from the body, was to be present with the Lord ; and that when the body returned to the dust from whence it came, the spirit returns to God who gave...

...magnified the Lord and rejoiced in the God of his salvation, giving undoubted proof to his many friends, that to be absent from the body was to be present with the Lord, and expressing his strong and abiding trust in Christ his Saviour. He died just a week before the church,...

...into the unseen world. On the contrary, it longed for dismission from its earthly tabernacle, knowing that to be " absent from the body," was to be "present with the Lord." It were vain to describe, even were it possible, the feelings of Raymond when assured of his sister's...

...forcibly one is reminded whilst reading this extract, of the language of the inspired apostle, who thought that "to be absent from the body was to be present with the Lord " (2 Cor. v. 8) ; and that, therefore, "to depart and be with Christ was far better."— Phil, i. 23....

...doctrine of Paul. The Lord have mercy on those for whom such a prospect has any charms! Paul considered that " to be absent from the body," was " to be present with the Lord." The Savior said to the thief, "This day shalt thou be with me in paradise." . These declarations clearly...