Abenezer Erskine, the devoted Scottish preacher, who died in 1754, was visited on his death-bed by a friend who asked him:
"What are you doing with your soul, Mr. Erskine?"
"I am doing with it what I did forty years ago," replied the dying man. "I am resting it on the Word of the Lord."
How different the last words of Mirabeau, the notorious infidel: "Give me more laudanum, that I may not think of eternity. I have an age of strength, but not a moment of courage."