When shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead. O! on that _day_, that wrathful _day_, When man to judgment wakes from clay; Be Thou the trembling sinner’s stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away. _Scott._ Oh! _day_ of _days_! shall hearts set free, No “minstrel rapture” find for thee? Thou art the Sun of other _days_, They shine by giving back thy rays: Enthroned in thy sovereign sphere, Thou shedd’st thy light on all the year, Sundays by thee more glorious break, An Easter _day_ in every week. And week _days_ following in their train, The fullness of thy blessing gain, Till all, both resting and employ, Be one Lord’s _day_ of holy joy. _Keble._ DEATH. Let me _die_ the _death_ of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!--Numbers, xxiii. 10. But now he is _dead_, wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. II. Samuel, xii. 23. What man is he that liveth, and shall not see _death_? Shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave?--Psalm lxxxix. 48. Precious in the sight of the Lord is the _death_ of His saints.--Psalm cxvi. 15. Weep ye not for the _dead_, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.--Jeremiah, xxii. 10. O _death_, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of _death_ is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.--I. Corinthians, xv. 55, 56, 57. But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus _died_ and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.--I. Thessalonians, iv. 13, 14. Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part of the same; that through _death_ He might destroy him that had the power of _death_, that is, the devil, And deliver them who through fear of _death_ were all their lifetime subject to bondage.--Hebrews, ii. 14, 15. Blessed are the _dead_ which _die_ in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.--Revelations, xiv. 13.