Calling the Roll of Heaven

From: Moody's Stories By: Dwight Lyman Moody

Amos 4:12¹²Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. (Amos 4:12); Revelation 21:27²⁷And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life. (Revelation 21:27)

A soldier, wounded during our last war, lay dying in his cot. Suddenly the deathlike stillness of the room was broken by the cry, “Here! Here!” which burst from the lips of the dying man. Friends rushed to the spot and asked what he wanted.

“Hark,” he said, “they are calling the roll of heaven, and I am answering to my name.”

In a few moments once more he whispered, “Here!” and passed into the presence of the King.

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