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do
thy
will,
among
the
sons
of
mortality,
or
among the
spirits of
the blessed on high."
V.
"
Let
us
remember
we
have
slept too long already
in
days past,
and
it
is
but
a little
while
that
we
are
called
to
watch."
We have worn
away
too much
of our
life
in
sloth and drowsiness.
"
The night
is
far
spent
with
many
of
us,
the day
is
at hand; it
is
now high time to
awake
out of
sleep,
for
now
is
our
salvation
nearer than
when
we
first believed ;" Rom.
xiii:
1
1,
12.
Another
hour
or
two,
and the night
will be
an
end
with
us;.
Jesus,
the morning-star,
is
just
appearing;
"
What, can
we
not
watch one
hour
Mat.
xxvi. 40.
0
happy
souls,
that
keep themselves awake to
God
in
the midst
of
this dreaming
world
!
Happy
indeed,
when
our Lord
shall call
us
out of
these dusky regions, and
we
shall
an-
swer his call with holy
joy, and spring upward to the
inheritance
of
the saints
in
light
!
Then
all the seasons
of
darkness and slumbering
will be
finished
for ever
;
there
is
no need
of
laborious watchfulness,
in
that
world,
where
there
is
no
flesh
and
blood
to
hang
heavy upon
the spi-
rit;
but
the sanctified powers
of
the soul
are
all
life,
and
immortal
vigour.
There
is
no want
of
the
sun-
beams
to
make their day-
light,
or
to
irradiate that
city;
"
the glory
of
God enlightens
it
with divine
splendors,
and the
Lamb
is
the light
thereof;"
Rev.
xxi. 23.
No
inhabitant
can sleep
under
such
an united
blaze
of
grace
and
glory
:
No
faintings
of
nature,
no langu ors
or
weari-
ness
are found
in all
that
vital climate
;
every citizen
is
for
ever
awake,
and
busy
under the beams
of
that
glori-
ous
day
;
zeal,
and
love
;
and
joy are
the springs
of
their eternal
activity,
and there
is
no
night there ;"
Rev.
xxii.
5.