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 *' Lord, now lottcst thou thy sorraut depart in peac^, according to 
 thj word, for Diinccycs havO scon thy ealvatioh."— LwKii: ii. 29, 30. 
 
 Every spiritually-enliglitenedand serious reader of 
 liis Bible must.be struck with the perfect composure, 
 the calm, unruffled tranquilhtj, with which JGod's an- 
 cient servants are recorded to have met, ai^d to have 
 triumphed over,De«/7i, the great king of terrors. They 
 seem to have thought no more- of the act I of dying 
 than other men da of the ordinary and the every day 
 occurrence of taking a journey, or of composing them- 
 selves to rest in sleep. Thus, of the Patriiirchs, we 
 read, that when their last hour came, they "| gathered 
 up their feet into their bed," collected their hi)usehoid3 
 around them, gave them their parting injunctions, or 
 prophetic instructions, with their dying blessing, and 
 then, without a recorded feeling of regret or{ of alarm, 
 surrendered up their souls into the hands oflGod who 
 gave them. There is, in truth, something Singularly 
 striking in the Scripture narrative of the djying hour 
 of some of these ancient worthies. To Aahn, it was 
 said, « Go up to Mount Hor,'" and to his brother Moses^ 
 " Go up to Mojmt Ncbo, and die." Now,! we know 
 that to depart out of life is, in all cases, a mist solemn 
 thing, and 6ne from which man instinctively recoils. 
 * Even in the best of men, nature, when gathering itself 
 up for the final act of dissolution, seems to need all 
 
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 tfic praycis and Uie kiiulncsscs of friend, th-.t ii . 
 
 r '' '^^'"'>; "'•"'l'«'- 10 liini eucourngi,,..- trulhs n ,^ 
 «.ey speak cheoringly of the boUc- kuuflo " S, 
 
 mstc„,„a; t.Of,gl, Ihoy „.;,y often bo CO.M,o|cI ,o 
 
 uni away the faeo, lest bo shauld be "riever v I n 
 tears wbid, their own loss extorts luTt t h • ^ 
 able finf nil ^r i , ^*"': " is remark- 
 
 l7, n„ ,*^''""" "■"' "='™'-' overbangi,,,, <li„o. 
 
 t.on seems to ha™ bee, take V away in tbe'cie ,r 
 tare bonce of the Patriarchs and bo^ ,n , of 'I" 
 TAy speak of dying j„st as Ihcy would have s, oh n 
 
 «;:?s:^;;i-r::^7!;ir^-"^'- 
 
 to t,i,tt: -lia^; -;ti:;:l^^^/dr ;■?[ 
 
 ;;eqmnng what was painful or difficJ^ a f , 
 bidden then. ,o a banquet, or dir3l' , 
 form the most ordinary dntv ]i . H ''"'■ 
 
 ".ore than at ilrst sig\t cotf ":;:'^ ir"'-" 
 every whit as mysterions and as .IZL ^ ''j^ 
 
 frai.ti:/:;r:,:if''^;::^^^^^ 
 
 ^.c>.„,„of its terrors, irul^lZ^::^^:^^^ 
 S--q,ture ttself. however, furnishes a e ea. t l 
 
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fi-ienci.s, tliut it mny 
 ly with composure. 
 I'dics, is ordinarily 
 
 They stand rouiul 
 i to catch his every 
 ^n-ixgrniv truths, and 
 I- land to whicli he 
 !n be conipollod to 
 l>c grieved by the 
 
 liut it is rcniark- 
 )verJuinohig disso- 
 way ill the dcpar- 
 lioly men of old. 
 ould Iiave spoken 
 licrc could be no- 
 solution— nothing 
 '"'^- Or, tliey are 
 lie L^rd speaking 
 ttle indication of 
 ^ ^^ if He iiad 
 ted them to pcr- 
 lere is liere much 
 eye. Dcaik Avas 
 ^mn a thing ihcn, 
 2 all of them men 
 ike feelings and 
 iKBither stripped 
 (ier of Iiis fears. 
 
 clear and satis- 
 l that portion of 
 :^i-(ls of our {qx{, 
 ^ ill precept, the 
 the words (as 
 
 you Will doubtless remember,) of a "man in Jerusalem 
 whose name-was Simeon^ of whom it was written tiiat 
 " he wa? a just man and devout, waiting for the con- 
 solation of Israel," and to whom it was "revealed by 
 the Holy Ghost, that he should not see d^ath, before 
 he had seen the Lord's Christ." Keing directed, by 
 express revelation, lo enter the temple at the moment 
 when Mary Avas presenting Jesus before the Lord, he 
 took the babe, wc are told, into his arms, and blessed 
 God, saying, "Lord, now lettest thou thy servant de- 
 part m peace, according to thy word for mine eyes 
 have seen thy salvation." The plain, and obvious 
 truths which -these words convey, are simply Mc5c ; 
 that Christ IS appointed of God as man's" salvation"- 
 and that "r;|eeing Christ," (not so much'^vith the cxjc 
 X)f sense, for many, like Simeon, did that, who yet bt 
 heved not in Him), but that ".*mV/^ Christ, with the 
 ^y^ of faith, drsarms Death of its sting and the Gra-v'e 
 of Its terrors, and enables the believer to pass throl^ 
 that otherwise dark and dreaded valley V fearinc/^' 
 evil," but " departing in p^e." And no laboured 
 proof, no extended Scriptural citations, will be needed ' 
 to substantiate these glorious and most blessed truths, 
 riiey are stamped, in broad and legible characters, on 
 every page of Scripture. They run parallel Avith the 
 whole history of man— from his first apostacy'to this 
 hour. And in type, prophecy, or precept, they may 
 bo read in every book, and nearly in every chapter of 
 the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. These were ' 
 the trutlis, wrapped up in that first memorable pro- 
 mise or "the Seed of the Woman bruising the Scr- 
 pcnt's head," made to Adam and Eve, after their 
 grievous fall, in paradise. And these, the same truths, 
 
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 '•mn,'' M ' ^'""'I" '■'"''^^""''' ««n. ^6c'. expressed his Atith 
 l)V wl.i "l ' '." " ««c#<c, more cxqellent than Cam's, 
 tlu. in.(l 1^ '^'''''^' '^^ ^^^ speakcth » 'i^Ac^c were 
 
 Anosil "' '. J^'^triarchs and Prophots-which 
 
 tl.rou.i;;' ;" „ ^^^-^^^^^-^vhich the Holy Church, 
 the In '''^'*'''' ^'^"^ ^&e/ downwards to 
 
 K.mwl,l|!.?':;'^^.''r Saviour-did profess and ac- 
 cilorl- ' i' '"^' '"^^-'^^'^^'ouJd Utterly fail as to par/i- 
 cr.ssivr *'''*'''''^ even of the ///t^^/nou*— in their suc- 
 ylW/ "''"'".''•'^"«' o^"'«cn» like jBwocA and iVoa/^, and 
 
 ''■'^" iiujiutudc more, who "saw not Death till 
 
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 ^ ^^ •'^' •;^<Mm the Lord's Christ," and seeing ///m, 
 
 «H <1Um1 • "^ ' *^«P^"lGd this lijbj-ejoicing. These 
 wcoin..' I'l" '"^^ ''^^^'»S received the promises, but 
 
 ^nul .M.l. n '" i"/;'' ''^' ^''"^ '""'^ persuaded of them, 
 fulniiMc, t iV "' '^'^^^ looking confident^ for their 
 
 lliov liv ' I ''^^^ '^*^^"«' ^'ley confessed themselves— 
 
 vnrlh \ "'"' ^^'''^' '^'""'^ '''' strangers and pilgrims upon 
 homo-- hT^ !''''^ "^ continuing city-no abiding 
 <Aa//, (li > " y l'^^' ^^ ^^^^ purchase of a Saviour's 
 J« f'onir h\ ^''^ "^^^ Saviour's unbounded Jove— for- 
 >vorKl ' . '7""'''^'*'^ skies— for a better and an enduriiig 
 
 "NiuuHm r'"* *'"'^"^^'' ligliteousnesi .Thus, hke 
 And wli. '^' ^''^'^""^ ior " the consolation of Israel." 
 J«:'tl -MTix !^! *'' T""^'' "' successibn, the last of earth 
 
 »^vav (u 11 i '''^ ^"»""^ns (jame beckoning them 
 
 rotuniJM V r'** '""""^ '''^'^^*' ^^4^^s are marked by no 
 
 '^l»riukiMr/';^.i ""/'' ^ *''""'^ ^H"" "'' trembling and 
 ,. - u tlit^ banks of thc^ Jordan of Death— it 
 
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expressed his Htith 
 [qellent than Cain's, 
 icth." These were 
 
 Prophets — ^^vhich 
 he Holy Church, 
 ibel downwariis to 
 lid profess and ac- 
 terly fail as to parti- 
 'rious — in their suc- 
 loch and Noah^ and 
 I j)Ioses, and David, 
 saw not Death till 
 t," and seeing ///m, 
 ij-ejoicing. These 
 J the promises, but 
 ersuaded of them, 
 ^onfidentlf* for their 
 jssed themselves — 
 s and pilgrims upon 
 
 city — no abiding 
 aso of a Saviour's 
 ibounded love — for- 
 ter and an enduriiig 
 mesi . Thus, like 
 iolation of Israel." 
 , the last of earth 
 e beckoning them 
 are marked by no 
 
 not trembling and 
 rdan of Death— it 
 
 bclieath its cold 
 itly looting for life 
 dividing stream — 
 
 waiting for their long expected deliverance ; 'able, like 
 one, to say, "I knowthnt my Redeemer hvqth, and 
 that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth ; 
 j and though aflor my ski^i, worms destroy this body, 
 I yet in my flesh shall I see God ;. whom I shall see for 
 I rtysclf, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another ;" 
 I like a scco?id, ''My flesh, alsp, shall rest in hope ; and 
 I whein I awake, it shall be After thy likeness ;" or, with 
 I a third, " Thy dead men shall live ;- together with my 
 I dead body, shall they arise j" or, like yet a foxtrthy 
 i staying himself upon the prtSnise of his God, " Many 
 I of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall 
 ;! awake j some to everlasting life, and some to shame 
 and everlasting contempt. But go thou thy way, 
 i Daniel, till the end be, for thou shalt rest, and stand in 
 ; thy lot, at the end of the days." They all, thus, " saw 
 not death, till they had first seen,'" with the eye of 
 faith, « the Lord's Christ j"^ and when the hour of their 
 departure was at hand, they met it in the spirit of 
 good old Simeon: "Lord, nOw lettest thou thy ser- 
 vant depart in peace, a^ngrding to thy word, for mine 
 eyes have seen thy sal^SBSon." 
 
 And the same blessed experience— the same perfect 
 triumph of Grace over Nature— o^ Faith, over human 
 frailty and /ear— of Christ, and trust fh Him, over all 
 the terrors of Z>ea^A, and t\\Q Grape, and the Judgment 
 to come, has been reaHz^d, and! is still experienced 
 every day by a muItMe, in the fxggregate, which.no 
 man can number. I^der every phase and varied con- 
 dition of this chequered life— under every conceivable 
 disadvantage and the greatest discouragements to 
 which poor, frail humanity could b# exposed, has this 
 tnumph over ourselves, our weakness and onr fcfirs, and( 
 
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 ■oveiKlhc cqijibinotl po^^or and mrTkcc of our .worst 
 enemies, 'been ol)t!iinGcl. I]i the deepest poverty— in 
 obscurity, friendlessii^ss iind desertion— under the c.v 
 haustiori of protracted, on the suflcrings 'of painful 
 ilhicss— amid the infirmities of advancing 3^cars, and 
 • the natural weakness and physical debility of h-ail 
 and shrinking womanhood, i|j ^ this sustaining, and 
 marvellous power of the Gospel every wliero and 
 daily witnessed. And hke ti\exis^ig and predicted 
 
 ^ preservation of the Jews, God's ancient people, it is a 
 siandhig miraolcj' an.d to every thinking miiul, will fur- 
 nish powerful internal evidenccof the truth and divine 
 origin of' Chi'istiaoity. We lv«ow th^t \oyt of couninj, 
 of honour, or oC/ame, or that mcrW animal courage . 
 will incite men to deeds of noble dai-ing— to seek the 
 bubble reputation^ at the cannon's mouth— to brave 
 death, amid all the storm and the strife of battle. But 
 where all these, and eVery other oionceivable worldlif 
 .motive is wanting, and where, io their place, is substi- 
 tuted everything that can depress and dishearten, 
 poverty y, desertion, pain, and sickness, with no hope of 
 release but in death, or of rest but in the grave; and 
 yet, above all these, men and women, and very children, 
 
 ■'■ too, arc seen to rise buoyant, and cheerful, and tri- 
 mnphant, and with the enduring lortitude of. a martyr, 
 afid the unconquerable courage of a hero, to grapple 
 with the last enemy, and to tripmph ovdr him, even in 
 their Aill! Wliat, my brethren, but the Gospel of 
 Christ-, experimentally known, received, and loved — 
 ivhat; but the Alhaighty powcA' of an invisible Saviour,^ 
 ^naking ^'///i- grace to be sufllcicnt for vvh, and His^, 
 strength to be perfected in our Weakness," can or will 
 do this?" Oh, there is a somcfJ^ing in the dying cham- 
 
 'ximi'i^^RtmmssmetmitMmmmmimmMiSsik^^ 
 
Kco of our .worst 
 cpcst poverty — in 
 on — under the c.v 
 Tcrings -of painful 
 mcing 3^cars, and 
 1 debility of h-ail 
 s sustaining, and 
 cvcrywhcro and 
 irig and predicted 
 ieiit people, it is a 
 ing miiul, will fur- 
 
 truth and divine 
 i^it lor6 of coiminj^ 
 e/ animal courage, 
 xing-r-to seek the 
 mouth-— to brave 
 ife of battle. But 
 )nceivable worldly 
 ir place, is snbsti- 
 
 1 and dishearten, 
 , with no hope of 
 n the grave; and 
 
 and very cldldrcny 
 cheerful, and tri- 
 itude of. a marli/r, 
 a hero, to grapplq 
 over him, even in 
 ut the Qospel of 
 ved, and loved — 
 invisible Saviour," 
 t for vvH, and ///s^. 
 :ncss," can or tvill 
 I the dying chani- 
 
 (Ijcr of a good man^ which tells us of a truth that God 
 inhere ! — which brings Jiomc to our hearts an irre- 
 sistible cOiivictioii of the heaven-born truth, and bfess- 
 cdness, and vitality, of our holy religion ! And what 
 is Ihat somcUiiug but the presence (to Ihc dying ser- 
 vant, of God) of the "Saviour himself? What Is it - 
 but the heavenly peace which flows to the believer 
 from union to Jesus, effected :througli living, snving 
 faith, uniting us .to Him, as the branch to the vine ; 
 and,t^/te« effected, realizing the Saviour, t^ughunsecft, 
 continually to the view — making His merits, before . 
 God, our satisfying plea — His rigliteousnesfe, our own— ^ 
 His all-sufficient grace and almighty strength, our very . 
 present help in ourjiour of utmost nped. This, and 
 this alone, will enable us to say, when our owh last hour- 
 shall come, " O Death,, where iS thy sting? O Grave, 
 where is thy victory ? TJianks be unto God, who 
 hath given to me the victory, through ouf* Lord Jesus 
 Chrfst." This^j^ndJhis alon'e, will enable us to ap- . 
 propriate (st^/best descriptive of our own state and 
 fedings) the words of Simeon to oursel^: " Lord, 
 now lettest thou thy servant depart |n peace, accor- 
 ding to thy Avord, for mine eyes have seen thy sal- 
 vation." , 
 
 And now, my brethrei), the general lenor of these 
 reflections, together with these surrounding badges of 
 mournipg and mementoes of respect for departed 
 worfh, will, doubtless, have led you to anticipate, in 
 some degr.ee, the remarks with which we close. And 
 our reflections this day, have beenr indeed^ ^ehcitedj 
 andjhcsc^ emblems of mourning and tokens of respect 
 are exhibited for one, who well^merits the latter, and 
 who has exemplified the former through a lentr and 
 
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 .was she widely know/,, but only ',<^; "'':;,;' t 
 be respected, as widely to be loved, an^;^ 1 ° 
 a w.dely to be ,no,un,a ! " It ia not s tl, d ',„ 
 
 ■ and Ke^lTof t ;f '^"-'^l^-''. "- contenj;; 
 world vvidlf ^'"'""?"" »"'• ^'■«"'-'». and others, oT 
 
 m,ght,est Republie to the mightiest Mbn r fc "f 
 
 Ropublic and in our ow/p^-olet St" l"! 
 near-,t ,s not m any, or in all of these particulars 
 hat the regard for this departed lady, and now tC 
 
 all, indeed are /oc/., and fach upon which mlnv 
 would, ex-clusively, have prided thcLeh^s Z ^-^ 
 "BK case, they served but to elicit a be u, ful t"^ „ " 
 
 mg her to the moral hkeness of her Redecmer-viz • 
 her deep /„»„tt^_her perfect absence of a 1 wj 
 
 -t-oned, scarcely ever „a,ned, were certainly ner 
 dwel „^,„. w.lh any degree of eon,pIaeency an^ " 
 ultafon. No, my brethren, 0,cse were not the circum- 
 
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 stances wl.icl. invested ),er with iwerest, and which 
 have astmgly earned for her a good report. I. ,va 
 the intrmsic worth of her ,own sterling eharacler-i 
 was her long life of unswerving inlcKrity-h wa ' he, 
 unvarpng, and perfect nprightn^ess of^co du t- wa 
 her I ngh-toned principles, implanted from on hi.l, Ind 
 developn,g themselves in ,|,e daily exhibition°of a 
 Chr,st,a„ vmues and graces-^ meekness, and L^ 
 Icness, and courtesy, which llw no respect offer- 
 sous-m largeness -of heart, and liberahiy of hLd 
 bounded only by her means-in unmurm LJ r tl 
 nafon to the will of her heavenly Father" fhroirh 
 ong years of accumulated and of sor 'tr K 
 the most snnple and implicit reliance upon God, h r 
 Saviour_,n the constant and faithful dischame of 
 every domestic, social, and relative duty-stddin. 
 
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 her, and she caused ,,/rt ? T'^ "''"" "P°"- 
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 uic occds 0/ /,er whom now we mourn. 
 
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 From the innermost circle of her nearest of kin, to the 
 outer one of friends and acquaintance, or to the yet more 
 extended one of her dependants and tenantry, sure I 
 am that never has one heart ached, never has one eye 
 been bedewed with tears for word or deed spoken or 
 done by her. And her end was worthy of her life, 
 it was, emphatically, peace ! She had drunk deeply of 
 the cup of sorrow of which her Saviour drank, and had 
 been baptised with His baptism of suffering. She had 
 both actively done^ and passively suffered, the will of 
 God, till her Lord ordered for her no more either to do 
 or to endure j and till; like a shock of corn fully ripe, 
 she was gathered into the heavenly garner. As the so- 
 journer of a night, she met her end at an Inn ; and, 
 Uke the sojourner wearied with his journey, she 
 rejoiced to arrive at home. Not a doubt, not a fear, 
 ruffled her peace, as she stood upon the banks of the 
 Jordan of death. Even the attendant minister of God, 
 familiarised with such scenes, was yet astonished at 
 her perfect peace, her tranquil assurance, her calm, 
 undoubting reliance, upon her Redeemer. That Re- 
 deemer'*s dying love once more she desired to com-, 
 memorate, and did so ; and then, in the comfort of a 
 reasqpable religious and holy hope, in communion with 
 the Church, and in peace with all mankind, bravely she 
 entered, and triumphantly" Stiepas^sed, through death's 
 dividing stream, followed only by the sighs and the 
 tears of others, till lost to view, she entered (as we 
 confidently hope) ImmaiiueVs land, passing, once for 
 ever, into the rest that remaineth for the people of 
 Goct. ■ That warm, kind heart, beats noM', indeed, no 
 longer ! That rare mind, never dimmed through long 
 year? of trouble, is, for a season, obscured iti death ! 
 
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 and had 
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 will of 
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 fi death ! 
 
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 But blessed be God, whilst with those that weep we 
 mmgle our sympathies and heartfelt expressions of 
 sorrow, we yet rejoice, in the midst of all, for the 
 blessed and consoling assurance which both this 
 life and this death afford. They seal to us anew 
 the assurance of a Saviour's undying faithfulness 
 and love. We recognize both in the beneficent 
 and useful hfe, « the patience in tribulation," and the 
 victory m death, which have signalized the case of 
 her of whom we have spoken, l^ossessed, like every 
 child of fallen Adam, of a depraved and guilty nature, - 
 it was the Grace of God alone which made her, in any 
 respect, to differ— which supported her in trial, anl 
 which ^omforted her in death. And that grace, my 
 brethren, free as the air you breathe, and boundless 
 as eternity^ is treasured up in Jesus, and is now most * 
 freely offered you. Oh, may you learn to seek it at 
 a Saviour's hands ! May you make that Saviour, your 
 friend— your abiding stay and trust. For, in this life 
 of many changes, where all around is now, or soo7i will 
 be, dark and dreaiN— on/y in Him, (be ye well assured) 
 only in a Saviour, tndy known, sincerely loved, jind 
 faithfully served, will you find rest to your souls— with 
 quietness, stability, and assurance for ever. 4nd when 
 Temporal life is ebbing away, and Eternal life is close 
 at hand, only in Jesus will you be able, with Simeon, 
 to say, "Lord, now lettcst thou thy servant depart 
 m, peace, according to thy word, for mine eyes have 
 seen thy salvation." 
 

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