Among the last lines written by the late Robert G. Ingersoll, the famous agnostic, were the following:
"Is there beyond the silent night
An endless day?
Is death a door that leads to light?
We cannot say.
The tongueless secret locked in fate
we do not know,
We hope and wait."
Among some papers found in the desk of a man who once professed infidelity but realized his error before he died were found these words:
"I've tried in vain a thousand ways
My fears to quell, my hopes to raise;
But all I need, the Bible says,
Is Jesus.
"My soul is night, my heart is steel,
I cannot see, I cannot feel;
For light, for heat, I must appeal
To Jesus.
"He died, He lives, He reigns, He pleads;
There's love in all His acts and deeds;
All, all a guilty sinner needs
Is Jesus."