Christians are like passengers setting out together in a ship for some distant country. Very frequently one drops overboard; but his companions know that he has only gone a shorter way to the same port; and that, when they arrive there, they shall find him; so that all they lose is his company during the rest of the voyage.
Edward Payson — Memoir, Select Thoughts and Sermons of the late Rev. Edward Payson, D.D., Vol. I (Asa Cummings, compiler; Portland, 1846), deathbed remarks recorded near Sept. 23, 1827 (around p. 409)
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