struggled with the ordinary popular conception, and sought to overcome it by demanding, and realizing, as faith does, its demand, that the communion with God enjoyed in life should not be terminated by death. And that is the thought expressed in the passage which I have taken for my text. The Psalm deals with a difficulty which sometimes pressed heavily upon the pious person under the Old Dispensation, who knew only of this world as the scene of God’s dealings with men, and missed the clear evidence