LIVING AND DYING.
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Living for Christ, I die;—how strange, that I, Thus dying, live,—and yet, thus living, die! Living for Christ, I die;-yet wondrous thought, In that same death a deathless life is wrought;— Living, I die to Earth, to self, to sin;— Oh, blessed death, in which such life I win!
Dying for Christ, I live!—death cannot be A terror, then, to one from death set free' Living for Christ, rich blessings I attain, Yet, dying for Him, mine is greater gain Life for my Lord, is death to sin and strife, Yet death for Him is everlasting life!
Dying for Christ, I live!—and yet, not I, But He lives in me, who did for me die. I die to live,—He lives to die no more, Who, in His death my own death-sentence bore "To live is Christ," if Christ within me reign, To die more blessed, since "to die is gain!"