But all sank into insignificance before the awful thought that soon-perhaps in a few hours-all affinity with this world's cares and troubles would cease, and we should be summoned into Eternity. I must make my honest confession that it was then I felt the force and-value of those sacred truths which I had so often heard, but so little regarded. A thoughtless, careless life, absorbed in the pursuits of this world, to the utter neglect of a future one, is a sad position from which to contemplate the sudden change to Eternity. I felt it-truly to be so . No one can enter completely into the-thoughts, and feelings, and imagination of a person in this fearful position - it is useless to attempt to describe them , for words cannot convey an idea of the intensity of the struggle between doubt, and hope, and fear, which by turns flit across the unprepared soul in the prospect of its immediate change.