My God and My Country

Daily Devotional

5 For they that live know that they shall die; but dead men know nothing more, neither have meed further; for their mind is given to forgetting. 6 Also their love, and hatred, and envy, have perished altogether; and they have no part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun.
The Book of Ecclesiastes Chapter 9:5-6

Brethren:

For the living know that they shall die, the consciousness of their inevitable fate gives them at least so much superiority over the dead; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, their fate is decided for the present, they are beyond reward; for the memory of them is forgotten, in most cases their very name becoming a hollow, meaningless mound in a few years. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, all the sentiments which actuated them in life, is now perished, the activities connected with these attributes have ceased; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun, their bodies are in the grave, and all communication with the world of the living has ceased.

Paul Edward Kretzmann - 19^th Century Theologian