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One throw of the dice and the great game of life is lost!

How many there are with whom the labour of long years is 
a failure! They are engaged building some favourite edifice, 
material or mental, literally or figuratively. They dream not 
that it rests on shifting sands, or on the edge of a muffled 
volcano! 

A teacher bestows his fondest assiduous care on a pupil
—a young life full of high intellectual promise. A sudden 
illness comes and sweeps him away! 

A parent lavishes his tenderest love and affections, thought 
and time and money, in raising his child; but, by-and-by, the
life of his prodigal son, is to the parent, worse than death. 

Yes, often are fondest hopes, best laid plans, glad aspirations, 
thwarted; the glowing visions of success clouded with misfortune
—calamity—ruin—the grave! One throw of the dice and the 
great game of life is lost!

Not so with imperishable riches—"the hope laid up for you 
in heaven"—bliss beyond the accidents of capricious fortune,
bonds that can know no dissolution. "My flesh and my heart 
may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion 
forever!" Psalm 73:26