Humbling and painful as these truths may sound, it is good for us to realize them and lay them to heart. The houses we live in, the homes we love, the riches we accumulate, the professions we follow, the plans we form, the relations we enter into, they are only for a time. “The things seen are temporal.” “The fashion of this world passeth away.” (1 Cor. 7:31.) The thought is one which ought to rouse every one who is living only for this world. If his conscience is not utterly seared, it should stir