Some Last Words

" I am very, very weak," he remarked; "and, humanly speaking, my life is gone from the earth, but the Lord holds the thread of it."
I said, "Yes, dear Mr. -, you are just in the hands of the Lord Jesus, and all you have loved and labored for these fifty years and more is in His hands too."
"Yes, yes," he replied; "and I see three things. The Father has given me to His Son; Christ is my righteousness, which settles everything; and then (what is more outside one) Christ is my object."