' What is your only comfort, in life and death'? The answer expressed in the Heidelberg Catechism should be the comfort sought by every man, woman and child on the face of the earth. That I belong - body and soul, in life and death - not to myself but to my faithful Saviour, Jesus Christ, who at the cost of his own blood has fully paid for all my sins... This was the comfort of George Bethune who presented these lectures in the early 1800's to the Reformed Church in America in New York City.