Calvinist Flyswatter

Remembering Stephen's Passing

IN REMEMBERANCE OF
STEPHEN MARK ROSS

Born April 2, 1958
Died January 9, 1960

THE PASSING OF AN INFANT

By C. H. Spurgeon

It is certain that some have wrought their day's work for the Master in their mother's arms; they have spoken of the Saviour in tones which have melted a mother's heart and gone to a father's conscience, and then they have been taken home.

"Whom the gods love die young," said the heathen, and doubtless it is no small privilege to be so soon admitted into glory. Only shown on earth, and then snatched away to Heaven, too precious to be left below. Precious child, how dear wert thou to the good God who sent thee here and then took thee home! Fair rosebud! yet in the perfection of thy young beauty taken to be worn by the Saviour on His bosom, how can we mourn thy translation to the skies?

No bitter tears for thee be shed,
Blossom of being seen and gone!
With flowers alone we strew thy bed,
O blest departed one!
Whose all of life, a rosy ray,
Blush'd into dawn and pass'd away.

--From Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volume 11, 1865, pages 687, 688.

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