Contra Celsum wishes to acknowledge that seven citizens of the City of God yesterday passed beyond the sight of mortal men. Six were students at Elim Christian School. One was a teacher at the same school.
We know and believe, as part of the undoubted Christian faith, that their membership in the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ has not ceased, but that their duties and responsibilities for service and labour in the earthly sphere of God's Kingdom have come to an end. They have passed into the presence of the Lord. Doubtless their duties and tasks for service and worship will continue in that great general assembly of the Church of the First Born.
Many loved ones: family, friends, and colleagues, will feel bitter loss. With them, we long for the day when the last enemy to be vanquished will be vanquished indeed. We are uncertain whether those of us who remain will go to them, or whether they will return to us in the Final Advent of our Lord.
I cannot tell how all the lands shall worship,
When, at His bidding, every storm is stilled,
Or who can say how great the jubilation
When all the hearts of men with love are filled.
But this I know, the skies will thrill with rapture,
And myriad, myriad human voices sing,
And earth to Heaven, and Heaven to earth, will answer:
At last the Saviour, Saviour of the world is King!
William Fullerton, 1929
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