Which?

From: Echoes of Grace: 1956

In the Cathedral at Worcester is an ancient slab bearing as its inscription the solitary word, "MISERIMUS"—"Most Miserable.”

Down in the Catacombs underneath Rome, those vast underground chambers of the dead where early Christians endeavored to hide from their fierce persecutors, engraved on a stone embedded in the wall stands this beautiful word, "FELICIMUM" "Most happy.”

If you were to be laid in your grave this week, which of those Latin inscriptions would most truly represent your condition?

"I am tormented in this flame." Luke 16:24²⁴And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. (Luke 16:24).

"Absent from the body, and... present with the Lord." 2 Cor. 5:8⁸We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. (2 Corinthians 5:8).

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