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Those too large to be entirely included in one exposure are filmed beginning in the upper left h ind corner, left to right an:^ top to bottom, as many frames as required. The following diagrams illustrate the method: Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., peuvent dtre fiim^s d des taux de reduction diff^rents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour dtre reproduit en un seul clichA. 11 est fiimi d partir de Tangle supirieur gauche, de gauche d droite. et de haut en bas. en prenant le nombre d'images ndcessaire. Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la m6thode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 3* :;■ 5 5 3 THE RESIRRECTION OF THE BODY: A SERMON PREACHED ON THE 4Tn OF NOVEMBER, 18G3, BEING THE DAY OF THE FUNERAL OF CATHERINE McNAUGHTON, WIFE OF COLLIN McFEE, Esq., BEAUHARNOIS. BY THE REV. F. P. SYM, (Minister of St, Edward'.-! Church, lioauharnois.) PUBLISH i<:d by rk quest. MONTREAL : PRINTED BY JOHN LOVELL, ST. NICHOLAS STREET. 18G3. S E K M N. *' So also is the resurrection of tlie body. It is sown in corruption ; it is raised in incorruption.j It is sown in dislionour ; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness ; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body ; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual bcdy." — 1 Cor. Villi, i'lnd, 44//i. Among the many consolations Avhicli the gospel presents to the Christian, either in the prospect of his own dissolution or when death has bereaved him of one beloved, the cer- tainty of their continued existence and -well-being is the svveecest. To be assured that our departed friends arc still alive ; that they have survived the shock of death in all the consciousness of individual being ; that though the body is subjected to utter decay, the spirit, the nobler part, survives unhurt, retains all its former recollections and sympathies, and may still participate in ours ; — to be assured of all this, brincrs deliditful solace to us in the sad hour of bereavement. Our tears indeed may continue to flow at the separation ; but faith follows the departed, and teaches us to think of them only as absent. True, Ave know little of the unknown land whither they have gone ; nothing of its sun and its sky, and its scenery, nor of its spiritual inhabitants, nor their manner of converse, nor their special employments. But this we do know, that the Saviour who died for them is there ; that multitudes who have inhabited this globe of ours, now re- deemed out of every nation and kindred and tongue, are there ; that many who have gone with us to the house of God in company, worshipped in the same sanctuary, and knelt around the same domestic altar, are there. Separated ^3^349 ^ from 118, they are united to others as dear to them, ^vith ^vhom, tliroughout eternity, they shall enjoy a purer and a happier fellowship than this world ever afforded to the most fortunate. It is natural for us thus to follow the spirits of the de • parted, not only because the spirit is the nobler part, but because it still survives unchanged, or rather elevated in the scale of being and enjoyment. But while thus in faith and hope, we "follow the spirit into the world unseen, let us not overlook the body, which we have hidden from our sight in the grave, as a thing perished, to be seen no more. Let us even follow it there, that we may meditate on the dehghtful contrasts presented in the text. The words consist of two parts : a series of facts regarding the na ;ural body palpable to observation ; and a series of facts regarding the spiritual body revealed to faith : — the one scries is a counterpart of the other. I. — Consider the series of fticts regarding the natural body palpable to observation. 1. " It is sown in corruption.'''' Death feeds upon it, and it is consumed. So soon as the soul has left it, and the vital principle is extinct, putrefaction commences, and it begins to dissolve into its original elements. Vast indeed are the changes now apparent in it. The rosy color of youth and health has given place to the lividness of corruption ; the eye, lately bright with meaning and affection, is lustreless and shrunk ; the well turned and graceful form gives evi- dence of the devastation that is going on ; and after a few days Ave are glad to hurry away from the sight of living men that form which was once beheld with fondness and admira- tion ; and ere we take the last look of it, it is disagreeably manifest to every sense — that it is sown in corruption. Nor would we shock the feelings of humanity by uncover- ing the grave to observe what desolating process is going on i there. Let us not presume to look at the humiliating rem- nant of mortality while a vestige of it is discoverable. But return you may, after the lapse of years, to the place where it was deposited. Look on the upturned mould, and you dis- cover not a fragment of the ruin of that body which was fear- fully and wonderfully made ; and when you look upon the dust, which bears no evidence that it ever lived or even com- posed any part of a structure like your own, you may take up the words of the text, and say, " it is sown in corriqj- tion.^^ 2. But " it is also sown in cUsJionour,'" in sad and shameful dishonour. Observe that fair one arresting every eye amidst the gay assemblage. All are proud to offer the most re- spectful homage. Her very presence awakens a feeling of affectionate veneration, and even makes the observer think more worthily of his kind. But let disease and death pass their withering finger over this object of general admj,j-ation, and ah, how vast the change ! Those who lately admired would shrink and tremble to look upon the object of their former homage ; — they bear it away in close concealment to the sepulchre ; and lowering it down amidst damp and dark- ness and worms, they leave it alone unguarded, to be trod- den over by all who may, a cast out thing, vhicli is sown in dishonor.'' Its epitapli is the epitaph of our lacc : " How loved, how lionored once, avails thee not : To whom related or by whom begot. A heap of dust alone remains of thee ; 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be.'' Nor docs any one escape this general doom. The de- formed and the ])eautiful, the peasant and the prince, are in death reduced to the same level. The prince indeed may be attended to his last resting-place with much outward pomp, but soon the meanest of his followers retire and leave him to rot as dishonorably as the menial that waited on him. Even the fondest affection soon ceases to look the way where the 6 mortal part of the most belovqd is interred. The gravestone scarce attracts the notice of a neighbour or acquahitance, and even this frail memorial is at length defaced. A new generation cannot tell who is below ; and the mortal re- mains of the beautiful, the high-born, the beloved, are equally sown in dishonor. 3. " It is sown in iveahiess.^^ How melancholy that weak- ness which approaching death brings on, whether arising from violence, disease, or age. The stronii; man who once felt as if his sinews were made of iron, then totters in the feebleness of infancy ; and he who once toiled and travelled without feeling weariness or perceiving distance, cannot walk across his own chamber. His limbs are incapable of per- forming their accustomed office ; his hands lie powerless by his side ; his eyes scarce move in recognition of the friend who moistens his parched hps ; his lungs at length cease to breathi, and his heart to beat, and life's fitful fever is closed, — the body is sown in weakness and consigned to corruption. 4. The apostle sums up the circumstances of man's mor- tality, by the fact that " it is sown a 7iatural hody.'''' It is consigned to the grave with the same properties as any other piece of inanimate matter. It differs not from the leaf that has fallen from the tree ; from the carcase of the animal that lived and died in the forest. It is subject to the same pro- cesses of decomposition and decay which are universal throughout nature. The more exquisite symmetry of its parts, and the higher dignity of its rank, does not deUver it from the law of corruption when once the soul is dislodged from it. Sown a natural body, it is subject to that decay and dissolu- tion which sooner or later changes the form of every indivi- dual substance which the earth contains. These facts are indeed most humbling to the pride of man. True, the death of the body does not essentially affect the soul ; the immortal part is left untouched and undishonored. But body and soul are " a fond couple^^^ closely Hnked to- pother, and it is humiliating tliat tlic spoiler should riot on so intimate a companion, and utterly destroy it. But hlesscd 'DC God, even this hiferior part of our nature shall not bo left in irrecoverable degradation. God will redeem it from the power of the grave ; " for the sea shall give up the dead which arc hi it, and death and hell shall give up the dead which arc in them ; then that which is sown in corruption shall be raised in iiicorruption ; that which is sown in dis- honor shall be raised in glory ; that which is sown in weakness shall be raised in power ; that which is sown a natural l)ody shall be raised a spiritual body." I[.__This introduces us to the series of facts regarding tlic sjnritual bodi/, which arc revealed to faith. The same l)ody which is sown shall be raised. Not per- haps consisting of exactly the same material particles, for this is not essential to the case, since these arc every day cast oft' and reproduced without destroying its identity. But whatever is essential to the identity of any individual body will be preserved by llim who watclies over the dust f his saints, and who has promised in the morning of the resurrection to fashion them like unto Christ's glorious body, by the mighty power wherewith he is able to subdue even all things imto himself. We may not doubt that almighty power is in this, ar: -. every instance, competent to perform what has been promised. And surely there is less mystery in the fact of the resurrection of our bodies than in the crea- tion of the world out of nothing ; and surely there is nothing more mysterious in it than hi preserving in an imperceptible seed the essential parts of that plant which in summer de- lighted the eye, and from which, after the desolation of winter is past, it shall be raised up again in all its former beauty. Resting contented however on this subject with the simple declaration of God, and receiving the resurrection of the Jbody as a fact revealed to faith, let us contemplate the sur- if 8 (I i • i ' passing excellence of the body in which the saints of God shall be raised. 1.—" It shall be raised in incorruption :" not liable like the natural body to decay and dissolution, it shall abide in per- petual youth and vigor. I»artaking of the eternal perma- nency of the heavenly world, the body will be as incorruptible as the soul is immortal. IIow infinitely superior to our present condition ; how much more worthy of a regenerated being ! Here corruption often seizes the infant at its very entrance upon life, and it invades us at last in age as an unavoidable event. But in the new condition of our being there shall bo no more death. " This corruptible shall have put on incor- ruption ; this mortal shall have put on immortality." 2.— It is raised from its dishonour into ''(jlory:' The precise nature of this glory we cannot now comprehend ; for we know not of what refinement and lustre these material bodies are capable when the hand of God shall have rcfasliioned them in the morning of the resurrection. We have seen the body only in the grosser form adapted to earth, and even that impaired ])y the ravages of sin, and the law of corruption. No man who looks upon a lump of eartli, would imagine that any power could fashion it into a human being ; no more are we able to conjecture by looking upon our present bodies to what a height of glory divine power may raise them. "' Bre- thren," " says the apostle," it docs not yet appear what we shall be : but tliis we know, that when he shall appear we Hhall he UJce Jiun, for we shall see him as he is." And this likeness takes in the body as well as the soul ; both shall resemble Jesus in his glorified humanity. What a body was that which on the jMount of Transfiguration did shine above the brightness of the sun: which, after his resurrection moved with the ease and expedition of thought I which appeared to Saul at noon-day above the brightness of the sun !— that body in which Christ is now worshipped by all the angels of God ; in which he will judge the world, and fe <) »i reign forever in Iua kin-j^dom. With sueli a glorified body in his degree will the holiever bo raised. " For wc look for tlie Saviour, the Lord JesiH Christ, who shall change our vile body, that it may he fashioned like unto his glorious hody ; according to the Avorking whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself." 3. — In the resurrection the body shall be raised " lupower.'^ In its most vigorous state in this life it is full of weakness. A small <lcgrec of labor exhausts it. It rccjuires to be stat- edly refreshed by long periods of rest and insensibility. ]\Iost persons consume one-third of their time in sleep alone : and the remaining two-thirds must ])C subdivided by numerous inter- vals of repose. Our constitution rc(iuires this because of its weakness. But when raised in the power of its new being, it will not need such seasons of rest and sleep. Ever v.gi- lant and active, it will be prepared to dwell in that world where " there is no n'ujht.''^ In its acts of worship there will be no interruption, for the heavenly worshippers servo God day and night in his temple ; and, if commissioned on errands of obedience, it will speed its way without fatigue tlirougli immeasurable space, and accomplish tasks which no combina- tion of mere human power could achieve. 4. — This will further appear from the last liict revealed to faith of the resurrection. It is raised "' a Hplritaal bodij."'' not in Its essence, for that will remain as it is now, and be material. But it will be refined from all the grossness of materiality. Its appetites will be extinguished. It will be the proper companion and instrument of the soul in its glorified condition, endued with organs of sense suited to its new sphere ; all w ill be instinct with heavenly intelligence and love, inlets to the soul of those rivers of pleasure that flow from before the throne of God. In offering this brief illustration of the facts revealed to liiith, wc do not forget that we are treading upon the myste- ries of the invisible world, on which our knowledge is speedily 10 !» ! I l| ' exhausted. The very names m Avhich that limited knowledge is conveyed, express only relative ideas, and can only be imderstood proportionable to our present knowledge and experience. And when we discourse on a mode of existence dissimilar to our own, and of which we have no actual know- ledge, we are in danger of substituting our own conjectures for truth. We pass away, then, from the mysterious but consolatory facts which we have now contemplated, that we may offer one or two practical reflections. 1. — The facts then presented in the text call for our warmest gratitude, as evidence of the completeness of that redemption which Christ hath wrought out for those who believe. It would have been a deliverance of unspeakable value had the soul alone been delivered from the destroyer. But when we see our deliverer so intent upon the completion of his work, as not to leave even the body under that degrada- tion to which sin has subjected it, our admiration of his love and power become the more unbounded. When we hear the conqueror exclaim — " I will ransom thee from the power of the grave ; I will redeem thee from death ; death, I will be thy plague; grave, I will be thy destruction ;" — our confi- dence in him who is so mighty to save, and so strong to deliver, becomes the more firmly established, and we wait with a brighter hope for the redemption of the body. 2. — Again ; this subject affords consolation when death has bereaved us of one beloved. " I Avould not have you to be are ignorant brethren," says the apostle, "concerning them that asleep, that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him." Departed believers will not only be found again by the sor- rowing believers left behind : they have already made a happy exchange as to the immortal part, and even their flesh, long burdened it may be with disease and pain, is resting in hope. How soothing and delightful this assurance when we 11 aowledgc only be dgo and ixistencc lal know- ijectures ■ious but , that -vve for our 3 of that oso who peakablc 3stroyer. mpletion [legrada- his love hear the power of I Avill be ur confi- trong to ivait with m death fon to be hem that no hope. , even so h lum." the soi^- made a eh" flesh, 3sting in ivhen wo are committing to the dust the remains of one with whose fel- lowship the happiness of our own being seemed inseparably connected ! As we look upon the place which they occupied, now empty, and find them neither in the chamber nor at the table : and when they come not at the quiet hour of evening to join in our devotions, we feel — painfully feel — the severity, of the separation. Yet let us noi be disconsolate ; other thoug^^ts and hopes comejn to assuage our grief. They live : they have entered indeed into another mansion of our Father's house ; and we shall not see them for a short space ; but hav- ing fallen asleep in Jesus, we are assured of their well-being, and look forward in joyful anticipation of meeting them again. And if our thoughts turn for a "^oment to the body which has made the grave its house, and us bed in darkness, — " saying to corruption thou art my father; and to the Avorm, thou art my mother and my sister," — we look upon it not as a thing perished, but as a wearied and afflicted sufferer taking rest — a rest from which in the morning of the resurrection, it shall arise incorruptible, and will be seen in a far sublimer and far lovelier form than that in which they have sojourned in this lower world : and we shall join them amid the new-born glories to which all believers shall then be raised ; and we shall never be separated from them any more for ever. " Where- fore, brethren, comfort one another with these words." How seasonable, my friends, is all this doctrine to our minds at the present moment ! How applicable to our case under the pressure of that mournful dispensation with which we have been visited ! And how richly and how effectually should it contribute to our support and consolation! The loss which we have sustained has created a void in the family, and among her friends in the church, which we cannot get well supplied. She who has been taken from us occupied a place in our esteem, and confidence, and regard, down to her very latest days, which nothing but sterling worth could have enabled her either to acquire at first, or afterwards to maintain. And m 1 111 1 ! I ! J il li v> 1 12 we may safely affirm, that among those who knew how to appreciate what is truly great and good, there seldom was one, wherever she was known, more highly and sincerely esteemed while she lived, or more deeply and deservedly lamented when she died. To give any suitable description of her then is a task for which I am not adequate. I knew her well indeed, being privileged with her friendship for many years. But my very knowledge of her satisfies me that I cannot do justice to her memory. I cannot speak of her as her peculiar merits deserve. I cannot speak of her as the feelings of my own heart would desire. This, how- ever, I regret the less, as her life and character must bo so familiar to the minds of many of you, and so strongly and distinctly impressed upon them, as to require from me no illustration to make you either know or understand it. There was nothing hidden or disguised or e(|uivocal about it. It was pure, gentle, kind, a good word for all, and an unchari- table thought for none. There was a consistency in her mode of speaking and of acting which could not fail to command admiration. And, indeed, in the endeared respect with which many of you have regarded her, and in the silent but deep- felt sorrow which at this moment fills your bosoms, there are ample proofs that you are no strangers to all that high excel- lency by which she was so conspicuously distinguished. Into the domestic circle I must not venture, sacred at this mo- ment by the depth and freshness of its sorrows — and tell you how much she loved there and how much she was ])eloved. But I may speak of her as a friend ; and how many can Ijcar witness to me Avhen I say that her friendship was invaluable. It was warm, it was disinterested, it was liberal, it was unostentatious, it was unwavering and constant. And they who enjoyed it enjoyed a treasure, for there was both the willing- ness and the ability to give them the most substantial token? of her favor and regard, and never for a moment was her temper soured or her kindness chilled. I may speak of her i ew how tc ieldoni was i sincerely deservedly description . I knew ndsliip for itisfies me t speak of )ak of her This, how- must bo so 'ongly and 3m me no srstand it. d about it. m uncliari- i her mode command -vith which but deep- , there are ligh excel- led. Into : this mo- ld tell vou s beloved. y can bear n valuable, al, it was 1 they who 19 willing- :ial tokens t was her 'ak of her •as a Christian, ard she was sincere. Those who knew her best, can best g witness how faithfully and hal)itually she embodied her knowledge, and her principles, and her hope as a Christian, into her life and deportment, her daily walk and conversation. I firmly believe she was a Christian in heart and habit, in senti acnt and conduct, through the whole of life. No one knows better than myself, except the partner of her joys and cares, how conscientious and faithful and earnest, she was in the discharge of her spiritual duties, how active and assiduous in the care of her family, in giving counsel to its members, and in doing good to all with unaf- fected kindness, as she had opportunity. To act in all things on principle, and that of the iiighest and purest description, appeared to be her constant aim; and, judging from her conduct, this which formed her aim, was in no common degree her attainment. How pleasing, then, to me, to say unto you all, here is a character worthy of imitation, exhibiting the virtues and graces of the Christian life. Never was minister favored with a more faithful friend or a more devoted member of his church, and to her frequently have I been indebted for any encouragement that I have received in the labors of my office, and which is so highly prized by every minister of the gospel. She was an ornament to my church, a most exemplary member of my flock — one, whose place in the house of prayer was never empty, unless prevented by the Provi- 'lence of God. Oh, brethren, how many are there, who noAv hear me, of whom the same could be said when you come to die. Remember that a well-spent life brings its own reward, •• for the memory of the just is blessed." Her sickness was short — disease came insidiously upon her, and quickly pros- trated every power of mind and body. It was of little avail that we invited the sleeper to unite with us at a throne of grace ; the torpor of disease was too deep to permit even a momentary consciousness ; the car could no lonsrer distin^ruish as it had been wont the accents of divine love : faith had lost u il I iii'^ I i l! ' |! '. its vision in the dark cloud, and hope had powcrlessly fohled iijf her wings until the hour of dehverance. But, nevertheless,, faith and hope were there witldn the cloud, as the humble and unobtrusive piety of her past life had given us the token, and we doubt not they hav now obtained their fruition before the throne of God. How comfortable and reviving then is this truth, that the body which we commit to the dust, shall be restored to life again, that this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality, under all the trials and afflictions of the present state ! Who that properly under- stands and believes it, but must reckon with the apostle, " that the suiferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed. In what glowing colors do the sacred scriptures describe the happi- ness of believers at the great day of Cln-ist's appearing, when the last trumpet shall sound, when the dead shall be raised from their graves, and their vile bodies shall be fashioned hke unto Christ's glorious body — when these two intimate com- panions, the soul and body, shall be joined together again in immortal union, and the redeemed of the Lord in their complete natures shall take possession of the kingdom pre- pared for them before the foundation of the world. Such are the cheering hopes which the gospel inspires ; such the animating prospects of immortality, and how admirably fitted, when cordially believed, to soothe the soul in its deepest sor- row ! But the gospel which informs us that the souls of the righteous do at death immediately pass into glory, that is, into a state of inconceivable bliss — into the society of an^-els and spirits of just men made perfect, into the immediate pre- sence of God and the Redeemer— likewise declares that the souls of the wicked shall descend into the prison of hell, into the company of devils and wicked spirits hke themselves, there to await their final and everlasting doom. They too shall be raised incorruptible, tliough not in -glory. They too shall be raised in power; but that power shall only Jil J jJ * ^"J <iB 15 Ij folded ujf )vertheless,, lumble and the token, ition before % that the ^red to life •n, and this trials and jrly under- le apostle, 3rthy to be In what the happi- ^ing, when \ be raised lioned like nate com- ber again i in their ^•dom pre- d. Siicl} such the bly fitted, 'epest sor- Lils of the , that is, of angels -bate pre- 5 that the hell, into cmselves, They too -. They lall only be the capacity of endurance. They too sliall bo raised spiritual bodies ; but they shall not bear the image of the heavenly. Of those that sleep in tl.e dust, some shall awake to everlasting life ; but some also to shame and everlasting contempt. This last sliall be the fate of the wicked. Death, therefore, to them will not be gain, since it fixes their doom irreversibly in moral degradation, and its proper punishment. Be it now your daily concern, my brethren, to scrutinize the ground of your hope, lest you should cherish a delusion that shall make you ashamed at last. '* For not every one that saith. Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but they that do the will of our Father Avho is in heaven." It is a dreadful infatuation to dream that a life of ungodliness and carelessness may yet terminate in a happy death and a blissful eternity ! It is contrary to the express declaration of God. and to the established order of his moral government. Ilcfleet* that the doom of mortality was pronounce.! upon you at the moment of your birth ; swift-winged time is speeding onward with your death warrant ; a few more revolutions of the year and your career will be closed I Ilemember that your eternity will take its complexion from time. " Wh.ic.-t-ever a man sowcth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Soon shall you reach the end of your journey never to retrace your steps on this lower world. Let all your plans then be laid with eternity clearly in view. Let each day be im- proved, as it hastens to join the past of your existence — charge it with some joyous message of sin subdued, of faith strengthened, to the world of the departed, that the spirits of the redeemed may rejoice in your lleaven^Yard progress. Strive to redeem more earnestly the lieeting moments for the service of God, for the cultivation of holiness, for th'^ deve- lopment of Christian character, that thus you may l^ecomc prepared for being made a partaker of the inheritance of the saints in light. Seek those things which shall lastingly bene- 16 lil^l iilS^ I t fit yourselves and others ; and leave l)elund you, -when you depart from earth, an example of faith, zeal and patience, Avhicli may stimulate others in their efforts to attain Christian excellence. that we all had the wisdom so to live, as that a few years might convey us to a world of hliss, and when the account is taken, none of us may be lost. What heart, rightly affected by a view of eternity, can contemplate with- out deep emotion the possible separation for ever of those who now listen to the same gospel — sit in the same seats — raid stand in the closest of earthly relations to each other ; yet, alas, bretlircn, this is not merely possible, but probable, unless wc awake to new earnestness and concern for our- selves and for each other. Be persuaded, then, to look for- Avard a little way, that you may see how short a course of worldly enjoyment is, and how darkly and wretchedly it must terminate ! Then cast your eye upon the path along which the justified sinner is pursuing his way. It looks to you, perhaps, who have no relish for his peculiar pleasures, as if it lay tlirough a dreary wilderness, and so it often is. But amidst all the sorrows and difficulties of that Avilderness, he has the favor of a forgiving and reconciled God to uphold and cheer him, to be his pillar of cloud by day and his pillar of fire by night, to fill him with a peace, which the world can neither give nor take away. The Chris- tian's jour: It'/ is as short and as checkered as the sinner's, l)ut how diiferently docs it terminate. It terminates in a land of rest, and bliss, and glory ; where the joy that he now feels in the sense of God's pardoning mercy shall be freed from all that impairs it here. And in the morning of the resurrection, it will be rendered complete by his reunion to a glorified and spiritual body. " And I heard -a voice from heaven, saying, write. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them." Amen. •"P i n i*,'? vlicn you patience, Christian e, as that and when lat heart, late with- ' of those c seats — Jh other ; probable, for our- • look for- course of chedly it the path way. It '< peculiar and so it )s of that •econciled cloud by L a peace, ^he Chris- sinner's, linates in y that lie ' shall be lorning of is reunion 1 -a voice which die )irit, that do follow Amen.