When they of Ashdod arose early on the next day, behold, Dagon was fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh. They took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
The Lord has undertaken our perfect sanctification, and He will accomplish it. He has brought old Dagon down, and broken his head and his hands, and He will break him to shivers ere long. Yea, He will take the ark of the Lord away where Dagon shall never come into contact with it any more. He will take you the gracious part of you, your truest and best self away into the glory, to abide with Him forever. Think of this and sing. Yea, brother, sing with all your might, for all this may happen within a week. A week! It may happen within a day. It may happen before you reach home tonight. We are so near to heaven that if we were not very dull, and our ears very heavy, we might at once hear the angels chanting their ceaseless hallelujahs. Some of God's saints some here, perhaps have almost got their foot upon the threshold of the eternal city, and do not know it. They are closer than they think to the harp and the palm branch. They would not fret about what they will do next year, they would not be worrying about next quarter-day if they knew that they would be amongst the royalties of heaven by then. They would not even think about tomorrow did they know how soon it will all be over, and how soon the eternal joy will begin.
