The Christian's is a stingless death. Death to such a one is an angel of peace. He comes to loose the prison bands of clay and set them free to go home to their Father's house. Theirs is the gain, ours is the loss, yet not all, for we must not forget that Christ's gospel has a power of transmitting present bereavement into gain. Bereavement is often turned for those who live into a blessing. God did tow kindnesses at one stroke when He bereft you of your beloved; one kindness to him: another kindness to you. To him, the perfecting of character and bestowal of bliss; to you, ripening of character and preparation for bliss.
      By such sweet solaces of sorrow as these, Christ leads us forward to the hope of a yet future and still grander consolation, when we shall be reunited in a holy place forever. It was a prediction of this which Jesus gave the day at Nain by the resurrection of the dead son and his reunion to his mother. The resurrection of Christ Himself is that which guarantees the ultimate unpeopling of every tomb, including that "vast and wandering grave," the sea. His risen body presents the type of every reconstructed Christian body. His glorified life is the source and pledge of their life in glory. For this recall from death by the archangel's voice to Christ's own deathless and transfigured immortality, as for the deepest, grandest and last of our consolations, Christ bids us hope. Now we are sad and weary for we dwell apart; but Jesus has compassion on us as he had upon the widow, and he tenderly encourages us to be patient, and to wait, because with such hopes as these He leads us, greatly longing, forward to a day, when He shall give back our lost beloved to our eternal embrace, and us also to theirs, the glorified to the glorified, to be forever one. Then He shall wipe all tears from our eyes, and say, otherwise and more effectually then He did at Nain, "Weep not." by Rev. J. Oswald Dykes, D. D.