Note 41 — SERMON XL. The Privilege of the Living above the Dead. 1 Cor. iii. 22.——Whether life or death,——all are yours.

It was a custom in former days for merchants in their books of accounts to have “Laus Deo, or Praise to God,” written in the beginning of every leaf, and it stood on the head of the page in large and fair letters, to put them always in mind, that in their human affairs they should carry on a divine design for the glory of God.