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| Illustration Title | Illustration Author | |
|---|---|---|
| A Long March Through the Night | Source unknown | |
| A Poem by Benjamin Franklin | Source unknown | |
| Adolph Hitler | Encyclopedia Britannica | |
| Afraid? | From John & Betty's Stamm's belongings after their death in China | |
| Another Room | Source unknown | |
| Anticipation | A. Blackwood, The Funeral, p. 24 | |
| Arrived Safely Home | Source unknown | |
| At Last | Source unknown | |
| Beautiful Garden | Source unknown | |
| Burial of an Emperor | One World, May, 1982 | |
| Burned at Stake | Source unknown | |
| Cancellation of Forces | Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist, writer, professor | |
| Changed Priorities | Christianity Today, October 3, 1994, p. 26 | |
| Christopher Columbus | Source unknown | |
| Confederate Soldier | Anonymous Confederate soldier&md;1861-65/ died in battle in the War Between the States | |
| Corrie Ten Boom | Today in the Word, MBI, October, 1991, p. 30 | |
| Courage and Hope | Our Daily Bread, May 29, 1995 | |
| D. L. Moody | The Wycliffe Handbook of Preaching & Preachers, W. Wiersbe, p. 209 | |
| Dead Cat | Contributed by Ross Sams, Jr., Reader's Digest, May 1996, p. 102 | |
| Death is Universsal | Through Sorrow Into Joy, Hugh Salisbury, p. 58 | |
| Death: The Most Essential of All Works | Gary Thomas, in Christianity Today, October 3, 1994, p. 26 | |
| Drowned for Faithfulness to the Reformation | Source unknown | |
| Dying Honorably | Our Daily Bread, January 28, 1995 | |
| Dying Words | The Enemy, Norwood R. Anderson, in Christianity Today, February 7, 1994, p. 36 | |
| Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson | Source unknown | |
| Edith Rockefeller McCormick | Today in the Word, September 29, 1992 | |
| F. B. Meyer | Quoted in Consolation, by Mrs. C. Cowman, p. 70. | |
| Fact | Source unknown | |
| Famous Sculptor | Source unknown | |
| Fanny Crosby | Source unknown | |
| Flower Mixup | Bits & Pieces, June 23, 1994, p. 4 | |
| Fold Up the Tent | Source unknown | |
| Gold | Source unknown | |
| Half In, Half Out | Malcolm Muggeridge, Christianity Today, September 3, 1982 | |
| He Fell Through the Ice | Today in the Word, May, 1990, MBI, p. 9 | |
| He Read His Own Obituary | Source unknown | |
| High Watermarks | John Gilmore, Probing Heaven, Key Questions on the Hereafter, (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1989) p. 63. | |
| His Way Was Right | Source unknown | |
| Home Safe at Last | Source unknown | |
| Hope Needs a Foundation | Our Daily Bread, April 17, 1995 | |
| Howard Hughes | Time, December 13, 1976 | |
| If You Want to go to Heaven, Raise Your Hand | Source unknown | |
| John Quincy Adams | Today in the Word, April 11, 1992 | |
| John Wesley | Wycliffe Handbook of Preaching and Preachers, W. Wiersbe, p. 245 | |
| Jonathan Edwards | Source unknown | |
| Land of the Dying | Source unknown | |
| Last Will and Testament | Our Daily Bread, May 11, 1995 | |
| Last Words | Source unknown | |
| Late Faith | Calvin Miller, The Valiant Papers, p. 20 | |
| Letter from a Condemned Man | Michael Green, Running From Reality. | |
| Letter of Consolation | Source unknown | |
| Life Flows By Like a Flood | Christianity Today, October 3, 1994, p. 24 | |
| Life is Short | Source unknown | |
| Long Life in America | Our Daily Bread, February 24, 1995 | |
| Made Like Him | Source unknown | |
| Messengers of Death | Our Daily Bread, 2-29-91 | |
| Mickey Mantle | Los Angeles Times, Monday, August 14, 1995 | |
| Napoleon Bonapart | Encyclopedia Britannica | |
| Neil Simon | Leighton Ford, Good News is For Sharing, p. 31 | |
| No Death at the Tracks | Source unknown | |
| No Difference in Bones | Source unknown | |
| No Exceptions | Today in the Word, April 11, 1993 | |
| Nobody Is Afraid of a Shadow | Our Daily Bread | |
| None Other Lamb | Source unknown | |
| Not If . . . When | D. Stuart Briscoe, Spirit Life | |
| Nothing at All | From the book September | |
| O Jesus . . . | Source unknown | |
| On the Death of a Minister | Olney Hymns, William Cowper, from Cowper's Poems, Sheldon & Company, New York | |
| Orphan Boy's New Home | Source unknown | |
| Perpetual Night | Morning Glory, January 29, 1994 | |
| Pillar of Hercules | John Gilmore, Probing Heaven, Key Questions on the Hereafter, (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1989) p. 65. | |
| Plan Your Departure! | Our Daily Bread, Tuesday, October 25. | |
| Quotes | Sources unknown | |
| Rather Rejoice than Fear | Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ | |
| Rearranging Priorities | Our Daily Bread, January 1, 1995 | |
| Risk-Takers | Our Daily Bread, 4-6-91 | |
| Safely Home | Source unknown | |
| Sarah Winchester | Our Daily Bread, April 2, 1994 | |
| Scarab Beetle | Today in the Word, March 6, 1997, p. 11 | |
| Scottish Missionary | Our Daily Bread, August 6, 1992 | |
| Shadow of Death | Source unknown | |
| So Little Done, So Much to Do | Today in the Word, July 28, 1992 | |
| Stonewall Jackson | Source unknown | |
| Suddenly | Source unknown | |
| Testimony 125 A.D. | Today in the Word, April 10, 1993 | |
| The Clock of Life | Source unknown | |
| The Creation | Our Daily Bread, January 1, 1994 | |
| The Hell Club | Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations, Paul Lee Tan, Assurance Press. | |
| Tombstone Inscriptions | Source unknown | |
| Trotman's Drowning | Starting Over by Charles R. Swindoll, Multnomah Press, 1977, p. 67 | |
| Typical Inscription on a Grave in Paul's Day | Warren Wiersbe, Be Ready, p. 83 | |
| Victoria Principal | Source unknown | |
| What to be Buried With | U.S. News & World Report June 22, 1992 p. 26 | |
| What's Beyond the Door | Christian Theology in Plain Language, p. 208 | |
| When Loved Ones are Taken in Death | Lehman Strauss, When Loved Ones Are Taken in Death. | |
| When My Work Is Done . . . | Moody, December, 1993, p. 70 | |
| William Randolph Hearst | Lehman Strauss, We Live Forever, p. 10 | |
| Woody Allen | Woody Allen, Courage - You Can Stand Strong in the Face of Fear, Jon Johnston, 1990, SP Publications, p. 34. | |
| J. Edgar Hoover | Charles C. Ryrie, Bibliotheca Sacra, a theological quarterly published by Dallas Theological Seminary, July, 1972. | |
| Hinderances | Thomas a Kempis, Imitation of Christ | |
| Somebody Has to Die | Addison Leitch, quoted in Passion and Purity, Elizabeth Elliot, Revell, 1984, p. 72 | |
| Afraid? | From John & Betty's Stamm's belongings after their death in China | |
| Death of a Pastor | Source unknown | |
| Death of a Shop Worker | Morning Glory, January 8, 1994 | |
| Entering God's Presence | Our Daily Bread, Sunday, May 27 | |
| Epitaph | Family Survival in the American Jungle, Steve Farrar, 1991, Multnomah Press, p. 48 | |
| F. B. Meyer | Quoted in Consolation, by Mrs. C. Cowman, p. 70. | |
| Financier John Peirpont Morgan | Our Daily Bread, May 11, 1995 | |
| I'm Home Now! | Source unknown | |
| Keep us, Lord | Christianity Today, p. 50. | |
| Parting Letter | Source unknown | |
| Poem | Source unknown | |
| Quotes | Sources unknown | |
| Safely Home | Source unknown | |
| Something Beyond? | The Autobiography of John Todd | |
| When I Am Gone | William Carey in The Life of William Carey. | |
| When You're Old | Malcolm Muggeridge, Christianity Today, Sept. 3, 1982 | |
| Quote | Source unknown |
