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"What will you do when you come to die, / If all your life long you have rejected Jesus, / And know as you lie there, He is not your friend?"
Over and over I said, I, the revivalist.
Ah, yes! but there are friends and friends.
And blessed are you, say I, who know all now, / You who have lost, ere you pass, / A father or mother, or old grandfather or mother, / Some beautiful soul that lived life strongly, / And knew you all through, and loved you ever, / Who would not fail to speak for you, / And give God an intimate view of your soul, / As only one of your flesh could do it.
That is the hand your hand will reach for, / To lead you along the corridor / To the court where you are a stranger!