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When thou passest through the waters I will be with thee. HALIFAX : PKINTEn BT EKGLISH AND BLACE4DAR. 1837. iPiP _J £ 1-^'V.'^ A X. Ths following discourse was orlsinally prepared from brief noiet and the writer's memory, for the private satisfaction of some of the relatives of the beloved and highly esteemed individual whose lamen- ted but happy death called ibr this tribute. It is believed to be substantially the same as was delivered on the occasion alluded to ; and in submitting to the public eye, at the instance of those friends, this slight testimonial of departed worth, it is consoling to remember, that the excellence of christian character which is here recorded must stamp this production with a value above any intrinsic merit of its own. May these few jiages have the blessed effect of leading some to n more diligent pursuit of a heavea- Iv inheritanc* ! i^^ wmm ii»i if | jp i ' % ' ^„ ^ l Y iT ti^. ''^ ^ ' "^ .*-v-i i ." ^■^ ^ s i^ B n: (3) S7a ; notes )t the amen- ed on at the worth, iracter value i/^e the eavea- PSALM CXVI. 16, PRECIOUS IN THE SIGHT OF THE LORD IS THE DEATH OT HIS SAIMT3, Mankind do not generally prize very highly the memory of the dead. They are, for the most part, too speedily forgotten. Among all nations, indeed, there are found some sacrifices to the propriety of paying them a degree of external regard, rrom necessity, if from no higher motive, they appropriate to the dead a separate dwelling jdace, and may occasionally adorn it with memorials more or less costly : here and there unelegnnt monu- ment, or splendid mausoleum may arise: but all this too fre- quently appears like a tribute extorted by mere custom, or de- signed to satisfy the general conviction of propriety, rather than the natural flow of a deep well-spring of feeling. The dead alas I are soon forgotten : their graves are trodden with an almost cold hearted disregard of all that was wise, or excellent, or lovely. There are, we are happy to know, exceptions to this general observation : there are found bosoms in which the memory of those once beloved is embalmed with a holy recollection which time hardly can waste. But we now speak of the more common character of human feeling : it is but too plain that if our future happiness should depend on the endeared recollection of tbo3G who shall come after us, our prospect would be dark ind d. ' ^4 But here, as in so many other instances, the divine remedy of the Gospel enters with a kind relict'. TIerc, is revealed to ns an immortal recollection in which nothing is forgotten — an infinite mind in which all that God hasb'jen pleased to approve and love isstored up never to decay — a memory that blooms and flourishes in unfading youth, forming a glorious and blissful con- trast wiUi the cold indifference oi human forgetfulnes?. And this, brethren, is our solace : it is the sweet truth which our text inculcates. " Precious in the sight of the Lcrd is the death of liis saints. The application of this passage in the criitext may perhsps only regard a temporal deliverance. The Psalmist, sorely pressed by his enemies, or bowed with the weight of a ♦areat- ening disease, is restored by the mercy of his God ; whom, iu the words before us, he seems to represent as regarding the death of his servants as a thing too precious to be hastily thrown away at the bidding of every enemy, or to glut the voracious appetite of the common destroyer. But, while he thus rsfers to a tem- poral mercy, he inculcates a truth, which obviously, has a higher and more glorious reference to a state of eternal existence. If, death-^the death of his saints is, in the sight of God, precious in its relation to the fleeting scenes of time ; far more precious must ?t be regarded in its relation to the scenes of Everlasting life. It is in its relation to a future world that we desire to contem- plate the sentiment of our text on the present occasion. God do^es not forget or disregard his people : he prizes their life ; and more highly prizes their death. We see them wasted by disease ; deserted, perhaps, by others ; suffering the common painful lot ; and to fen unbelieving eye they may appear forgotten of their Maker : it is not so; it is far otherwise. But the Lord judges not as men judge : glancing across all intervening scenes, lie fastens his especial regard on tl'.Qse moments from which man- kind spontaneously shrink ; and overlooking the seasons which to our carnal understandings may appear more attractive — more worthy of His regard ; He chooses just that period which to i * 5 -f i human wisdom leems most untoward ; and amidst the wreck of our mortal being, ond the anguish of expiring nature, on this pe-iod, it is, that 1.6 stamps in His word the broadest signature oflleavcn— "precious in the ?ight of the Loid is the death of his saints." Having thus stated what we think to be the general sentiment of our text, we proceed to offer a few thoughts which may tend to illustrate and enforce it : and first, we ask ; Is further proof of this truth required ? We answer, that our text distinctly states the fact ; and that this text is not solitary. Amidst a multitude ot passages tliat might be collected of the same import we remember it is said, '« Tie shall redeem their soulfrom deceit and/iolense: and precious shall their blood be in bis sight:" ^nd when the beloved disciple John was favoured with those .i?.rlou3 visions wliioh are contained in the Book of Revelation, Is if to Impress in a peculiarly solemn manner, the same precious trnth, he beard av( ice from heaven saying unto him, " Write, B!t.;srd nre the dea I that die in the Lord from henceforth : Yea, saith the Sj/irit, -lut they may rest from their labours : and their works do i" )llo.v t\jcin,'' But in addition to the direct testimony of scripture, ..-e would turn your attention, my brethren, to the consideration of the gcncrnl tenor of God's ivord ; and of all wo learn from thence, as well as from actual experience, of his con- duct towards mankind. Does not all this tend to shew that he highly p >:es the death of his saints ? Is it not all adapted to change their natural estimate of things, and habitually direct their attention to the day of their death as the object of their permanent regard — as fur more important even than their life ? We find little said in the Bible about living for this life's sake- no support given to the corrupt notion that good living consists in the enjoyment of mortal life, or the indulgence of earthly appetites : we learn, indeed, how to live well, in the higher and better sense, and this for the purpose of teaching us how to die. Did God, in his mercy, levcal to his .servant Adam the blessed hope of a divine F.edcemcr ? It was lor the purpose of shewing how his Almighty power should be exhibited in turning that *.^^..«... ^^.. death wbicli was a part of the curse of »ia, into the means of our hij^hest blessing : the death of Christ was to prove our life : it was to transform death, our condemnation, into the pre- cious means of our entrance on life Eternal. And when the sins of men had multiplied on the earth, and it pleased the Almighty, in the lierconess of his wrath, to sweep away the millions, perhaps, of an unnumbered population with a desolating flood— preserving on its surface only eight persons- righteous Noah and his family— snatched from the wide spread- ing destruction — was not the same lesson still taught? The awfulness of death so terribly multiplied around bid them with peculiar energy remember their own death, from which they were now preserved by the same waters which brought it nigh to the whole human race besides, in order that they might tho Letter prepare for it as the blessed period of their entrance to glory. AVere the Israelites rescued from Egypt by the right hand of God, passing safely through the floods that overwhelmed their enemies ? AVeie they led about in the wilderness and miracu- lously feed ? Were they bid to look forward to the fair land of promise as their future happy abode ? In all these things the /e»j/>oraZ comfort or deliverance of Ills people was compa- ratively a small part of Jehovah's design : the grand purpose was to produce in them a holy solemnity of mind which should lead them habitually to regard these things as pointing to that solemn day which should complete their rescue from sin ; extri- cate them from a worse wilderness ; and admit then), if faithful to God, into a far happier Canaan. The whole system of pro- pitiatory ofl'erings as instituted by Divine appointment was directed to the same great end. Daily as the ble^jding sacrifices were laid upon the altar tliey taught the worshippers of the Almighty to think of their great antityiie, that blessed " Lamb of God that taketh away the sin ot the world," and who, by his own death was to surround that period, otherwise so mournful with a halo of light and glury-to transform him who has gene- ■•.i^tf^^'^-n^'^ rally been regarded as the King of Terrors ii»to tlio Christinn'* •incerest and best friend, for precious in tho sight of the Lord i» the death of his Saints. In a word, the whole system of Divine mercy works together to the same end. Tor this the word of (Jod instructs by its precepts and its promises, its Divine con- solations, and its glorious hopes, for they all reach away from the present life, and stretch towards death and a future state.— For this Christ died, and rose again, and ascended to heaven, draw- ing the hearts of his people after him in the solemn acts that marked his departure from the lower world.— For this the Spirit enters the soul and sanctifies the heart, sweetly persuading the Christian not to set his affections on the things that are on the earth but on the things above where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God, and to the complete enjoyment of which death is the appointed entrance. This, then, is the grand object of the Bible ; the paramount design of the Almighty, compared with which all other things ave mean indeed. Kingdoms may rise and fall ; nations may be agitated with affairs of the most thrilling interest ; the hearts of the sons of men be wrapped up in their*>wn worldly or idle speculations regardless of the final event which befalls them all. In the midst of the turmoil and confusion of the scene, the approving eye of God is fastened on but one object with all the fixedness aud intensity of an inhnite purpose • lie follows the humble believer through all the in- tricacies and agitations of life ; ^veans him daily from the world, and sets his heart upon future scenes; estimates other things only as they bear on this; and finally, when in various ways of deliTerance and mercy he had shown forth Ins powe. and h.s love he receives his servant as ho fulls exhausted in h.s last stru-gle and pronounces his death more precious than his life, "Th^e day of death is better than the day of one's b.rth.'| ' '- cious in the sight of the I^rd is the death of his saints." As the Lord has thus manifested an especial regard to the death of his people iu the whole structure of his word and the uniform tenor of his dealings, so has he written the same m tk* feelings of A» »ervan!s thcmsdccs. A miihty revolution has re- passed upon them In this respect ; they are no lonfrer what they vrer-. Once death was a gloomy theme ; they dared notrcgard it with a .teudy gaze. Like the men of the world gene-al!y. they were absorbed in the care^ or the vanities ol t^me : but the power of the Lord has rested upon them aau taught them to look habitually upwards and ofwards ; in this, as in other things he has impressed upon them his own image. Instead of shrink- ingfrom the contemplation of death, .10 event of their being engrosses so much of their thought. -or. if this seem rather too much to affirm. certainly we must say that none is so habitually thought of as deserving their highest regard. Like others they must attend with diligence to the aftair. of life-nay. m these they must be exemplary as well as diligent- but this they will do, as those who see a new relation in all things here below to the' thin-s above ; this they will do with a continual reference to that solemn hour, which, while it rises darkling and gloomy to others, in their view approaches as iight from heaven. Since God thus highly values the death of his people, it is natural to suppose that this truth would ofte-i be manifested intheh'ippy feelings with which that day would be met: and though this mav not always be the case,it is by no means unusual. Light from above has not only fallen upon the subject m God 3 word, but peculiar emotions often give evidence of the precious- ness of that moment in which thp saint of God breathes out his soul into the bosom of his Saviour. There is often at such times a holy solemn calm-a confident resting on the promises of God in Christ -a joyful, nav, even a triumphant hope thai peculiarly mark that hour, as no other period of life was marktd, giving proof at once of God's high regard for this moment, and of the response which his people render in their feelings. And why shcuhl it not be so ? Is there not abundant reason for it ? Let us enriuire what is death to the Christian ? We answer, it is the end of sorrows. Many are the sorrows of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them a!l. In the courbeof his life He sustaiucd and strengthened him under i«K«i*^-.»B**;;.»*"»*--<^»^WBf' wm.-'imf^ am aWio.tions. but in the hour of death lie comes to appoint liim an overlasiiiig abodf ir. that world into which sin and sorrow never can enter. Do you ask, «gain, what is deatl» to tlic Christian ? We reply, it is the consummation of his joys. On earth he has obtained an earnest c.t i.is heavenly inheritance : he has so tasted of Divine joys as to whet and increase his appetite -his holy desire for those pure enjoyments upon which lie is now about to enter, without the interposing hindianccs and disappointments which too oflen happen tc him here. W hat is his death ? It is taefulflincnt of the great purpose of his being. Restored to God's image, his mind has in a humble measure harmonized with the mind of His Maker : it has been his grea. and para- mount object to live not for this but for a better world ; and now he may well rejoice in a death v n. come: to fulfil the intense desires of his soul. Wliat is death to i\io Christian ? // is to hi'H the great dag of meeting. It is too often regarded only in its melancholy aspect, as a s.,.aration from objects beloved. But the heart deeply imbued with that Divine grace which will make us tc regard as our best friends those who bear in their souls most of the image of their maker, will readily pas. over the consideration of the few mourners who are left behind only for a short stage of life's journey, and will stretch forth towards that hapov and glorious assemblage into whose company death ushers the believer. If even in life the christian by virtue of the sym- pathy of feeling given him is scid to have oo/nc to the generr' assembly and church of the lirst born ; how much more impie.- sive is the consideration when this h about to be not figuratively but actually re: lized ; when the servant of God is on the point of joinino- i„ person the glorious company of the lledeemer ; and as the beautiful language of Scripture expresses the thought, to sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of his Iratlier-nay, when I- will see his Saviour face to face, and will be permitted to behold the glory of that Divine and exalted Being, that Blessed Christ, who then, in the ciiuracter of man as well as God, will dwell in the midst of his people ! >V.. - V That belovea and highly esteemed individual, »hose lamented though nreeiousdeath, ha, suggested the,e thoughts wa. herself 1 Ttriking example of the truth of most of the p-.eeed,n6 observations. Some fourteen or eighteen years ago it pleased God to bring her to the knowledge of the truth. What partieular means may, in the first instanoe, have been employed for tins end I am not aware. We know, however, that her religious feehugs were for some years eultivated and matured by the preaehn.g wh.C she then attended in the principal parochial church m th.s town. Having subsequently united with this church, on a smcere convicL of dity. her religious life became to us an object ol closer attention. In offering a tew remarks on a cha,^cter whK=h y,e cannot but feel, was more than commonly excellent I trns that this congregation will acquit me of any ""d"-'-'- f lauding human nature or of misrepresentu,g or conceal r.g.ts mfir- cities, I can coufidontly appeal to many here that such has neve ,,eenmv practice. Wespeakofonrdeparted s.stern, nootherhght tZn'ewhoapproachingChristasasinner.guilty and condemn, e^receivedmercyandforgiveuessthroughhisname; an who from thl same source, deriving that strength wh.ch enabled her after- wards, to live so exemplary a life, rendered thus to her Savour all the praise. The first characteristic which I would notice in these brief remarks is the attachment of the subject of this sketch to tho.e aistinrjuiskinr, and prominent doctrines of the Gospel rchichon account of tlieir essential importance in the system of Red mp-. lion have been denominated Ecanoelical. Our dopar ed fne^ firmly believed in the corruption, tlie total depravity of the human heart by nature, as respects any relish for holiness, or any spirit of sincere obedience to God-and .n the renovation of this nature by the Holy Spirit, tlwough faith in the atonement ot Chnst. These truths she regarded as being of the essence of the Gospel ; as the root ot that divine change, that opposition to #r n worldliness ant! vanity, which uniformly marks ♦he sincere believpf : and she beUeved them not as one who had borrowed her sentiments from others, but who drew ihem from the well spring of life— the Divine oracles themselves— and in whom the instruction of the Holy Ghost was confirmed by the expe- rience he gave her of these things in her own heart and life. In connection with this let me notice her zeal for the cause of Gotf— the advance of the Gospel of Christ. If there was any thing she lived for, it was this. The truths she believed wore in her the power of God. Knowing them to be Divine, she ardent- ly longed for the spread of their influence. It was impossible to converse -vvith her, without discovering at once that this was uppermost in her mind. None rejoiced more than she, when sinners wcr^ converted to God, and professed Christians walked so as to adorn their profession. None more truly grie vad at the reverse. If at any time, "Zion was made to mourn," tVom any cause, and especially, if she was " wounded in the house of her friends," the heart of our deceased sister sorrowed sincerely and deeply. To few could the language of the Psalmist bo more appropriate. " If I forget thee, ok ! Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning : if I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth." Our departed friend wa^ remarkable too for her tender concern for the souls of others. She bore them continually on her heart. This was manifested by her unvarying endeavour to v-in sinners io Christ ; her frequent, but mild and kind, expostulations ; her faithfulness, together with her Christian gentleness in reproof. She pleaded with them, and prayed for them. Often, we vou d end ,n peace; and in this instance we' were not 1"": pointed In the correspondence from which we have derived ..ormauonof her decease, are some striking proof of. sickness wn^. as follows, " The mght before she died, I was n.th he., and among other things which I remember w^ thl remarkable sequence, « I expected to be supporj^ Ty Savrour when I came to this hour-but I have befn eo.foLZ It cs lovely lo dic^ A near relative writes. '« Our dear Eliza had „o tears of death whatever, but seemed to wish to be got he expressed herself theday before she died as being q.ite read; fcH- her departure, and said, as she looked at hor I'viour she could see h,m smile upon her as if to welcome her home.' m' o;.;n respected correspondent snys, " She said to me at my las^ v.s,t that she was almost at times tempted to question the genu- •ncness of her peace-it was so perfect and unbroken." Thus peacefully and sweetly died one whose whole pure and peaceful christian life prepared those who knew hor to antiei- pate for her r,o other death than thi.. She realized most per- toct y the doctrine of our text, " precious in the sight of the i^ord IS the death of his siinf« " Tr t - cam oi nis saints. It 1 seem, my nearers, to have said too much on the subject of her exemplary character, I must again assure you, I should not have ventured to do so, but that 1 am persuaded that the general conviction entertained of the christian excellenco of which I have spoken demanded and would amply sustain all I have now said. With regard to her I can- not mjself but adopt the language of another beloved and early Inendofthe deceased, " never did I feel such unbounded as- durance of the hnal happiness of any human being." We are, at the same time, far from desiring to represent our departed sis'tcr "saporfcet character: we suppose that in the mid.tof many t'XcoHcnc.os, she had her fai.lis. Whatever t!:cy may have .^x:- I #•• ^6 Been, hov^evcr, we believe they were such as were better know. to herself than to others. The prominent features of her charac ter we firmly beheve to have been in no degree inferior to the picture we have attempted to draw. It only remains that we should endeavour to gather for our he tr.k.ng dlustration of it exhibited »n the life and dealh of the deceased Let then, whathas been now said have its proper apphcatnin to all who are present. Belove-J Christian brethren, and especially you who were members of this church together with our depaLJ sister I we al calle. upon „. a peculiarly affecting manner to remember the deceased. We must mourn for her, for we loved her ; but let us not mourn selfishly, nor as those who are without ho;o : she l!7T '7 r' '" """' '' ^'° ^"'^^^^ *^-- — ^ «he kept the faith ; and has received the immortal crown. We may mourn for her for we have lost the benefit of her prayer, amongst us and for us-a loss of no ^all value. My esteemed correspondent, already alludeu to, feltthis. " In the removal" says he ofthis beloved sister, " your church, my dear sir, has lost, possibly, one of the most devout and assiduous of its earthly intercessors." It certainly is so ; but ^hile we lose the benefit of her payers, let us not forget that we have still the holy me-, mory o her blessed example. Let us so cherish the recollection o all that was praiseworthy in our dear departed sister, that, in he sp..t o thescriptures.it may instigate us. as possessing a d.st.ngu,shed and to us peculiarly touching place in that "cloud of witnesses whi.h the apostle represents as surrounding the arena of the christian struggle, and encouraging those who are still running the race they have finished. But, there arc surely, others present (o whom, though not mom ,c.s of tins church, perhaps not professors of a christia: hope our beloved s.ster's de-arture is a forcible lesson -a beseech- es- entreaty. You have lost, my dear friends, much that r. '=r»5#vith him and he with me." Our beloved departed friend slill bids you to forsake all worldly vanities and give yourselves to Christ. ■mpi rw [No apohgij h needed for the addition by way of appendix oJ'tkefoUoiviny Extracts from the Letter of a friend.] "XovemberSO, 1830 — Mrs. C. was all last night at the bedsid.; of th.- amiahle sunbivr Miss Troiaaiii ; shcis on theborc'LTol'the grave and not ex- l)^'cte(l to Kiirvivc, but tVom one day to another ; she suttbrs much more than is usual in consumption, l)ut is jjatience itself; slie enjoys a most enviable christian sjrenity, assurance and resignation, and liut waits tlie expected moment, that hhall change sufferin;.; humanity into blissful spirituality. She is a bright and lovelyevidenceof the truths of Christianity. The m'ost prosperous of this w(>rlds favorites and votaries may W(>11 envy Miss Tremain, for slie under all her suflbringis a favourite of Heaven and very near her eternal home. She has been visited repeatedly, by the Clergy and the ])ious in her neighbourhood." ******* " December .5 — On Friday last our dear friend Miss Eliza Tremain ex- clanged lier|)robaiion of extreme sullering, for the blissful abode of redeemed spirits, affording to the last moment the encouraging and convincing evidences of t!ie precious truths of our most holy religion. Iler's was indeed, the death bed of the righteous, and her last moments were sweet liope, and the triumph offaith amidit great bodily anguish. Uii(}uestiona!)ly she has trim.iphed over fallen humanity and is no\r enjoying all the scrijjture promises. " The Cor])se was attended to the grave yesterday I)y :\Ir. Ifoward, a I?aptist Minister in Brooklyn, and Dr. Cutler of ^^t. Ann's Churcli, (Episcoiialian) the latter is highly esteemed as an evangeli- cal man, he has the best cimrch in IJrouklyn and frequently visited Miss Tre- main with liis wife. Mr. Howard had prayers at the House, and Dr. Cutler service at the grave, the latter was aboutVj P. M. in (he twilight, and most peculiarly impressive and solemn, a great crowd collected around. Dr. Cutler s_ sisters were school mates of -Miss Tremain formerly in Boston ; and she rpc?ivod much assi ;tance and consolation from his pious conversation during h.r illness. 3[r. Howard and Dr. Cutler are on very intimate terms nnd no jirejudice exists between them, it was at his suggestion I invited xvr. Cutler to attend and perform the service at the grave, and all was done decently and iu cler, and appeared to give universal satisfaction." ■Ml