Monuments

Character over Marble

• Every man should leave a monument behind him, in the mind of his friends.
• A Good Character is the best Tombstone.
• Carve your name on hearts and not on marble.
• Better to give bread to the poor than stone’s to the dead.
• Better to visit while they are alive than to bring flowers when their dead.

Don't Let These be your Epitaph

       The no good

• “Here lies a man who did no good and if he lived he never would,

        where he is gone nobody knows and how he fares nobody cares.”

The Glutton

• “Gentle reader gentle reader, look on the spot where I do lie,

       I always was a very good feeder but now the worms do feed on I.”

The Gossiper

• “Here lies, returned to clay Miss Clara Bella Young,

        who on the first of May began to hold her tongue.”

The working man

• “The Lord saw good I was topping off wood, and down fell from the tree

      I met with a check and broke my blessed neck and so death topped off me.”

The Fool

• ”I have played the fool”
• “Died as a fool died”
•  “Only went to school to learn to be a fool.”
• Absalom's place.
• The field of blood.  Judas  “ his own place,”

Let it be like these

Job 42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning

2Ti 4:7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.

De 34:7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. 10 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face,

Joh 21:22 Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.

Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou th is?

Re 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.