Anne Dutton's
Letters on Spiritual Subjects
My very Dear and much Honored Parents,
Oh, my dear parents, your dear Lord Jesus will be with you in all your pains
and afflictions through the infirmities of an advanced age. The Lord will
make all your bed for you when sick. And when death comes, and no
creature can help you, then, then will the Lord be your helper. He will
never leave you nor forsake you; no, not in death's waters. Jesus, your high
priest, will go before you, make a way for you, and bring you safely over
Jordan into the promised land. The eternal God is your refuge; and
underneath you, in your last trial, will be the everlasting arms.
These almighty arms will keep your spirits from
sinking, when your bodies must fall by the stroke of death. The soft
embraces of those sweet arms will refresh your souls, and ease the
bitterest pains that your body may feel. And not the least pain, not the
least sickness, that you endure to bring down your mortal frame, but will
serve as a foil to set off that immortal glory you shall enter upon in
Emanuel's land, where the inhabitant shall not say, "I am sick." There I
shall shortly meet you. And let us remember that death comes to us as a
blessing. Death to us will be an entrance into life! We shall never be free
from sin, perfectly holy, nor fully happy—we shall never be as we would
be, nor should be, until we see Jesus as He is!