Sermon Tone Analysis

It is appointed unto humanity once to die.

Death comes for all.

Death is Universal.

The greatest downer, has been punctured, ruptured so that it no longer has power over us.

Thinking of the fullness and duration of this wonderful life, W. B. Hinson, a great preacher of a past generation, spoke from his own experience just before he died.

He said, “I remember a year ago when a doctor told me, ‘You have an illness from which you won’t recover.’

I walked out to where I live 5 miles from Portland, Oregon, and I looked across at that mountain that I love.

I looked at the river in which I rejoice, and I looked at the stately trees that are always God’s own poetry to my soul.

Then in the evening I looked up into the great sky where God was lighting His lamps, and I said, ‘ I may not see you many more times, but Mountain, I shall be alive when you are gone; and River, I shall be alive when you cease running toward the sea; and Stars, I shall be alive when you have fallen from your sockets in the great down pulling of the material universe!”