Death a Gain

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Phil. 1:21 Glorious confession! For me to live is Christ! And for me, for it is evident that these words of the first clause are intended to modify the last, to die is gain! Then, too, it must be clear to all that these clauses cannot be separated, as if each were true apart from the other. He that cannot make the first part of the text his confession, can never truthfully take the second on his lips. To die, for him, is not gain, but only a...