The Fire of Hell
The Great Divide
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THE GREAT DIVIDE
The grave divides this world from the Hereafter.
The next world lies across this great divide. Today
we are on this side of the divide; tomorrow we will
cross it. All living men will taste death; no one will
be able to escape it. But man is oblivious of death—
the greatest reality of life.
We have all seen people entering the grave never to
return, but few of us realize that we are also going
to meet the selfsame fate. The door of the grave will
open for us and then close on us for ever.
How strange it is that man witnesses others dying
every day, but himself lives as if he was never going
to die. He can see others being summoned before
God every day, but he excludes himself from
death’s list; he acts as if he was never going to come
before the Lord to be judged.
We are closer to death than life. If we could realize
this we would look on everyone’s death as our own;
it would seem as if we ourselves were being carried
to the grave when we saw someone else’s funeral.
