Excerpt from The Funeral Service, and Other Services: Selected Scripture Readings Appropriately Arranged for Various Funeral Occasions, Selections From the Poets, Ritual for Funeral and Other Services, Record for Funerals, EtcWe are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. Lord, make me to know my end, and the meas ure of my days, what it is: that I may know how frail I am. For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. If a man die, shall he live again?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.