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(Brooks, "http://www.gracegems.org/Brooks2/death.htm" Words of counsel to a dear dying friend")

"For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Phil. 1:21

Look upon your dying day as a gainful day. There is 
no gain compared to that which comes in by death. 
A Christian gets more by death, than he does by life. 
To be in Christ is very good — but to be with Christ 
is best of all, "I desire to depart and be with Christ, 
which is better by far!" Phil. 1:23. It was a mighty 
blessing for Christ to be with Paul on earth — but it 
was the top of blessings for Paul to be with Christ 
in heaven! Seriously consider these things — 

By death you shall gain incomparable crowns! 
A crown of life, Rev. 2:10; James 1:12; 
A crown of righteousness, 2 Tim. 4:8; 
An incorruptible crown, 1 Cor. 9:24-25; 
A crown of glory, 1 Pet. 5:4. 
There are no crowns compared to these crowns!

By death you shall gain a glorious kingdom! 
"It is your Father's pleasure to give you a kingdom!" 
We must put off their rags of mortality — that we may 
put on our robes of glory. There is no entering into 
paradise — but under the flaming sword of this angel, 
death — who stands at the gate. Death is the dirty 
lane through which the saint passes . . .
to a kingdom,
to a great kingdom,
to a glorious kingdom,
to a peaceful kingdom,
to an unshaken kingdom,
to a durable kingdom,
to a lasting kingdom, yes,
to an everlasting kingdom! 

Death is the dark, short way, through which the 
saints pass to the marriage-supper of the Lamb!