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 " Ifau dietli, and waateth away ; yon, man giveth up tlic pho»t, and 
 where is h^; ?" — .Tob xiv. l(t. 
 
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 Fn the uiiivoim' — aiul «»f" its inagiiitiuU' we luivc no a|»|irc'oi- 
 able coi)ce})tioii'T— there 18 an iiiiiiH'iii!iityof'l>eiii&jr, iie8]K.'ctiii^ whidi 
 we arc in total iguorance. How very little of it the eye has 
 seen ; and how uiuoh le^K of it the ear has lieard ! It is said of 
 Sir Isaac Newton that, notwithstandiuj; hit* ^ar-s4»arcliing enqui- 
 ries, he found himself to be only like a little child who had 
 gathered a few fine pebbles on tlie sea shore, while there yet lay 
 stretched out before him the great ocean wjtfi all its undisturbed 
 and undiscovered treasures. — There are, again, certain truths 
 about wliich. om* knowle(t«re is xerv limited, and we cannot 
 attain to the full comprehension of them : they become subjects 
 for faith rather than for reason. — There are, too, what some 
 hold to be facts, and what othei*s maintain to be fallacies ; 
 things which cause differences, beliefs, douMs, or denials. — Phi- 
 losophers have their controvei*sies ; and theologians their di^'ers 
 interpretations and disputations. — Those who study nature do 
 not all agree, and give an unanimous report of what they have 
 found in the sen, on the land, and in the sky. — ^Those who 
 study the Bible do not all agree either, and return but one 
 system of divinity. And if it shall be pleaded in behalf of 
 scepticism that the Bible is hard to be understood, because 
 those who study it have so many differences in inter|>reting it, 
 it can well be retorted on the devotees of natural theology 
 that they are by no means charactenscd t>y unanimity, either 
 in what they read, or from what they learn of the first volume 
 of the revelation of Ood. 
 
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^KIIMON. 
 
 Tht'iv is OIK' fact, however, as to wbirh tbiii' is no doubt, 
 no controverHV— tlie man who reads only the liook of ?>ature, 
 an<l lie who reads also the Hook of Tiispiration ; tlie (Mtristiau 
 and the infidel; the polished eagu au<J the naked barbarian, 
 are all aj^need on it — a fact wliicli is co extensive witli Innnani- 
 ty — and it is this, that man dies ; he is doomed to <lie : and 
 it is a belief that fixes itself iqaally on the blooming- babe in it::= 
 fulness of joy in its mother's niins, as on hoary age, which Time 
 is leaning on and pressing down into the grave ; and on those 
 who have been compolled to migrate and people the city of the 
 dead. Human faith is unanimous in that ; and if doubts arise 
 concerning man, if awful (juestions agitate and j)res8 for solu- 
 tion, they are not about the fact of death, but the consequences; 
 for these, indeed, are mighty and mysterious enough, and such sis 
 natural science can never explore, for only to the door-posts of the 
 gateway to the invisible can unaided reason go. 
 
 The text asserts an universal and undeniable fact ; but it 
 also contains the (piestion which gives rise to doubts, or fears, or 
 hopt.'s ; and to speculations so deep, that reason, imaided by the 
 Bible, has not a phnnmet heavy enough and a line, long enough to 
 re,ach the mysterious soundings, and bring up the evi<lences 
 which shall be, alike a reply and a faith. 
 
 There are the two conjunct facts — death and dissolution ; "' man 
 iHKru, AND WASTKTH AAVAY." Death, SO couunoii, allows none 
 to see any nearer or clearer under its inscrutable ijall. When 1 
 say this, I mean not as to its cause. There is no mystej-y in tliat. 
 One sentence reveals it all : for " by one m.'in sin entered into the 
 world, iUuX death by siiijjand. so death hath passed upon all men, 
 because all have sinned." .Inst as if you go to some }>arts of 
 Asia or Africa, and see whole regions bare of every green thing — 
 grass-less plains, crop-less fields, and leaf-less trees, you mark 
 the ravages of the army of famine, in the locusts which go forth 
 by bands ; or just as if you go to some seat of war, and behold 
 trenehes, and batteries, and battlements that have endured an 
 iron tempest, the turn soil, the crumbkMl walls, the broken 
 armour, the deadly shot that lies rusting atU'i- its destructive 
 
SKUMON. 
 
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 mission is <l(nu', tin- mouiuls scuttoroil so thickly that coiituiii 
 thoiviiiiiinsof fhiviihous hiittalioiis, and lu-ri' and tUvvv thr bones of 
 tUo brave wliich tlie vnhure has left, and around are wasted and 
 trodden Helds an<l deserted honie.<, once 8o happy ones, and yt)U 
 mark the fell realities of war, — so, as surely, in the universality 
 of death, can we traee its eause, and find it threatened even in 
 Eden; and since that first blood of the rijjjhteous Abel which was 
 shed by the i^uilty friitricide, the prerosjative has been irivon to 
 «leath, l»v manv instrumentalities, to vindicate an inflexible law 
 of (iod. 
 
 " Death is wIktc billows fojiiii. 
 Peuth is wluTo music melts upon tlu' air ; 
 Death is aruunil us in our pi'MLcful lionit', 
 And the world calls us forth — and death is tlicrt'. 
 
 Deatli is wlu^re friend unlets friend, 
 
 Beiieatli the shadow of the elm to rest ; 
 
 Death is where fo*; meets foe, and trinnpets rend 
 
 The skies, and swords heat down the princely crest. 
 
 Leaves have their time to fall, 
 
 Aud flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, 
 
 And stars to set — but all, 
 
 Thoti hast au. seasons for thine own, O ! death !" 
 
 Even though we know tlu' cause of it, still there is a wonder- 
 ful mvsterionsness when we carrv on our en<iuirv into the future. 
 Who has ever stood and looked at a corpse, at the remains of a 
 friend, of one with whom you had loviuijf associati«.)n, and saw 
 the eyes, but ii; soul now lookiuix out tliere ; the nu>uth, but no 
 more coming from it the language of intelligence, the tones of 
 love, or the melodies of song : that form, once so active and 
 strong, now inanimate and cold as the clod of the valley : who 
 has ever stood and looked thus — if he had not the stolid stare 
 and vacant min<l — who has not felt the mystery of death coming, 
 for a time, like an Egyptian cloud of blackness, and sweeping 
 an«l whirling around his brain ! Who has ever stood so, and 
 looked so, who has not felt himself asking, "andean it be pos- 
 sible that that shall yet [»ut on immortality ? can it be that 
 this corruptible, now to be given to the grave and worms, shall 
 yet put on incorruj)tion V and was there, afh'r all, a sou 1 in tliat 
 i)ody? ami does it still live ? and if so, wdiere ? wliere ?" Yes, 
 even with the Bible in vour hand and its faith in vour heart, vou 
 
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sKinroN. 
 
 Ciiniiot lu'lit focrnii; an ovfritowcriii'j; invstcrioiisiu'ss ns vun stJiiMl 
 by ii cdttiii side ; iiinl stniiim' (|U4>sti(>iih and straiiirc tliouu:lits — 
 v\v\\ ill spit<' of fnitli — will stnrt up and ludd wundi'iinl and 
 ji('r|»l('\injj; cnnver!*!' within you. 
 
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 Tliis lias always Ih'cm oxihtumu'imI. Wv inav take tlic hook 
 
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 of Joh as oiu' of the larlicst hooks of the liihlc — if not indooil 
 writtt'U hofo'v Mosi's' day — and we find in this <-ha|>tcr of it 
 SOUK' of the rcasoninajs that \\\\v ontiTtaiiu'd : the stni««'<din«'^s of 
 a tnu' faith in tlu' starliufht of n'liu:i<nis kn(»wk'd«'('. loiii» a'-'t's 
 a«itom', iK'forc life and ininiortality were hronixht to liuht hy the 
 gospel. The grass, though cut down hy tho scytlu* of the 
 the hnshandnian, will spring again; the tree, tli<>ugli it rv- 
 ccivc a dci'p wonn<l from the woiKhnan's axe will recover 
 and heal again, ami even though levelled to the ground, will cast 
 forth sjuouts from its roots. In the vcgctahlc world there arc 
 recuperati\(' itowers ; and thoii<ih winter may seem to deaden all 
 with its icy breath, and swathe all for burial in the redic woven 
 by the frost king, yi't 
 
 " Tli«; woods slmll lii-iir tlic voire ot' spiriif;-, 
 And tloiiriisli green Hgain ;" 
 
 but for man, death, as far as this existence iroes, is his tinalitv : 
 his jdace he never tills again, and there is no reviving spring, to 
 him, from " the ashes of the urn." Thus, as respects this w«u-ld, 
 the tjrass of the field and the willow bv the stream have an ad- 
 vantage over man. The watei" that ascends from the ocean, that 
 floats in the cloud, that falls in the rain, that runs into the 
 rill, the rivulet to the river, and the river to the sea, thus tinds its 
 wav back auain, but man conies no ukuc to revisit the ohl 
 scenes. The man of l'/, by his reasoning, did not mean to be an 
 annihilationist, for he believed in a future state, as the whole 
 tone, spirit, and hope of his declarati<Mis indicate — tli()Ugh 1 can- 
 not readily accept as a clear proof that, which is often given, 
 " For 1 know that mv Hedeenier liveth, ami that He shall 
 stand at the latter day u|>ou the earth ; and though after 
 niv skin worms destroy this body, yet in mv tlesli shall 1 
 see (iod," for that possibly had by him another reference ; 
 
SKKMON. 
 
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 yet it is true in a Li:«»sjn*l sciisr to I'Vrrv lu'ru-xrr, ami iid <loul>t it 
 will |»r«»\(' tnu' to him too, hut what ht* iiitcndcil t)) «-onv('y was 
 that, wIm.'Ii wo cxamiuo the suhjcet, there is a «laikiicss sueh as 
 the best light from tiie analon;ifs of nature iloew nut <lis|u'l. 
 
 I need not speak of the opinions of either ancient or niodeni 
 heathen, where the faint relic of a once full, luMLrht truth in 
 the soul is all that we now timi in their mytholoLries ; iiiit even 
 the olil .lews had it not fully, and h -M it not clearK as we. It 
 was not to them a well proven fict, in aetua! history, 'riicv had 
 heard ()f Enoch, whom (4od '' toMk" in a liajtpy translation, hut 
 he was the solitary instance in the aiiteijiluvian w<u'ld, and taki'ii 
 to represent in lu-aven hnnmnitv lu'forc the flood. Tlu*v ha«l 
 heard of Klijali, who finished his splendid proplu'tic career in a 
 glorious ascension ; hut he was the only one in the lonu" line of 
 all their ureat and i;odIy ones, and taken to represent the Jewish 
 church in the (diurch triumphant. Tliev had not vet heard of a 
 hurial and then a resurrection. They went to the sepulchre, and 
 saw a ujreat st<Mie with an unhroken seal at the <loor of it. The 
 fidness of time had nf)t yet <;ome when they should heliold it 
 i*olle<l awav, and when there should he heard the cheeriiiu' invi- 
 tation to " come see the place where the Lord lay." Life 
 and immortality, from the <j:rave, had not yet a li\ inu' representa- 
 tive of a dead or a dyinu' humanity in either earth or heaven. The 
 urand evidence was wantinu: until i::iveu hv the Son of ]Mar\ as 
 the real iVran, and the Son of (4od as very Divinity, unitin<.r 
 both natures in one ; iriyfiiir Ilis life, and takinu; it aii:aiii : yield- 
 iiiir to death in His humanity, ami iroinn' down amonu: Ilis kindred 
 of the flesh ; and then cotupu'rini*- death l»y His divinity, and 
 risiii!^ auaiii, and hiddiiiLj us enter His empty tom'o, to have a 
 misty faith illuminated with the clearest of evidence, ami then 
 to foUow Him in the crowd of witnesses, and to he assure<l that 
 the Lord was risen indeed. The resurrection of Jesus is the 
 culminatinir testimony. The first fruit of the harvest of immor- 
 tality was taken from the borrowed tomb i>f the irood inan of 
 Arimathea ; and it is a token au<l assurance that there shall be 
 yet a harvest home, when the reapers shall be the ani^els, and 
 have trathered into the kinirdom of uflorv all the redeenuMl from 
 
W SKItMON. 
 
 aiiioiitr iiHii. .Icsiis (.'lirisl .mikI lie cnicitiril i> tlic *lucriiiic to 
 U*!i<l tin- siiiiu'f to ( i(mI f'<M' his s;ilv;iti()ii. .loiis Christ .iimI He 
 risen from thr (h:i<I is the- <h»ctriiu' tu clicci- thi- ilyiiiu' (liristinii 
 thiit he simll not hr forijotti'ii in his ifravc. .Icsns Christ iunl 
 lie ascrndi'il ;it ihc riuht hand ot'ddd the Kathc ris the (htctrinc 
 to lift ns np ahovc all earth's ills ami deaths, ami to teaeh lis that 
 He, who is there, has all power ujiven nnto Ilini in heaven ami in 
 earth, and that lie will conn' attain and rncive ns inito llimselt; 
 and then, our j<>y shall he fnll as we sl;in<l aronnd the tree of 
 life, in the paradise of (Jod. 
 
 "Man niK'ni, am* wastkth away." Some read it thns, Man 
 WA.siKrii AWAY, ANi> i>iKin, Natnre uradnally fails : the silver 
 eonl has its threads snajiped one l>y one : the l>o\\| is piece hy 
 piece broken at the fountain ; an<l that is true so tar, as when he 
 who has uathertd tin- snows of aue on his head ami hows and 
 bends hi)n on his slatl', that he thns wasteth away, and slowly 
 "jjoes out of sii^lit i)assinLf down the >alie\- of the shadow of 
 death ; but thouuh this is tf fact, it is not f/ii iniifoini one; for 
 thf lo\(Iy babe, the mother's jewel of her laart, ami nn)re pre- 
 cious to her than rubies, is taken away : the stronii; man dies 
 while the tide of health is runninu^ at a \\\>^\\ Hood, and his bones 
 are fnll of marrow ; and fell consumj>tion suddeidy pales the 
 younii' rose-blush on the cheek of beauty. — The readini>' of the 
 text is better, man dieth, and t/ic/i he wasteth away back to his 
 oriuin — all but his sold — ^dust to dust, and ashes to ashes. O! 
 men and bicthren, if we were to read our fate <ndy in thelaniiuau'e 
 of death ; if all our liiL>ht were that which comes from the window- 
 less walls of the hoiise appointed for all li\ini>', we would hio\irn 
 for our belove<l dead without ho))e, and sobbings would be 
 turned into w ailinns, and patient urief into a yell of auony ; 
 but, blessed be (Jod, the gospel jtlaecs a lamp of li\inu' hope in 
 the cottin, r.n<l by faith we see its ethereal tlanu' on the uraNcs of 
 all the Lord's sleepers therein, and by its li«rht Ave ri-ad with joy 
 that they shall rise again ; ami thus, for them and for ourselves 
 Ave look, far beyond, to the daAvn of that Ljlorio\is day Avhich 
 shall have no sun-set ; avIumi the resurrection shall brinu; Vip the 
 <'on<pierors, with the challenge to their aiu'ient foes, forever van- 
 
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 «|ui>ln'»l tlu'ii, " () tli'iitli I winTf i> tliy >liuii';' < > urav c I wlu'iv 
 is tliy vi«'.tory V" Dratlil tlioii luulst a sliiii;:, Init tin- poiijon U 
 I'xtnu'tcd ; ufiiivt'I tliou luidst ^utcs ;in»l l»ars, luit they aiv ull 
 Imrst mikI Uiokt'ii ; :in(l now, rrdrciiuMl, it'ii('\V(<|, rcstorcfl, wv 
 lift <mr forclicads to tlic sky, to 1k'1i(»I(| and to I'/ar the Lor»l 
 <U'sccu<lini; from lioavi'ii wlili a sliont of triunij»lial <-oiM|iU'st ; 
 au«l ascrilx', in all tlit- ufratit'ido of* conscious innnortalitv, " thanks 
 Ik' to (io<l, wlio ^ivctli US tni' vit'tory tlnoni;li our Lord .Icsus 
 ("in-ist." ■ ,.,' ,. - , . , .,...,. " .., 
 
 Tlic text furtluT stati's, tliat l»v di'atli tlicrc is not oidv the 
 inanimation and conscMiui'nt dissolution f»t' tlic '>ody, lnii, besides, 
 there is anotlicr tact, "yka man <.i\ ktii vv iiik <;host." Now 
 i'nnn tlie orioinal word tor " i/hnsf^' we, perhaps, can gather no 
 more mcaninLf than sitnply ///'c Man uiveth np tht'lite. Still tlieiv 
 comes the eiKjuiry, w hat is life ? Does it consist oidy in eon- 
 sciims activity of hrain an<l heart, "olood \essels, nnisch's, and 
 nerves V If so. man is alloirethei- like the l)east of the field ! 1 
 must have more than that. Tlu' " ^ivimj up"' infers a livinjjj 
 part, a restorinii; or retiii-ninn' of a portion of what constituted 
 human existence. The preaelier in .lernsalem, after speaking of 
 death, says, " t/i<:/i shall the spirit retni'u to (iod who o:»\-e it." 
 We find the soul hei'e ; and Mliich is the i-eal, living, respousihie 
 constituent of man. Death is the separation of the material from 
 the spiritual, an<l dissolution seizes on the one, and(iod recalls 
 the other, IJeasou can do absolutely nothing foi- us in this. It 
 is a subject of [)ure faith, and that faith resting on heavenly 
 revealings. I>y reason, we know nothing about death any further 
 than we see. Wliat was life, is lifeless : everv sense uttei'lv un- 
 conscious. That is all we can tell. We bi-liold no pait oi- parti- 
 cle escaping — no tenant flitting from an old honu'. Hut then' is 
 a sublime wonder in the fact that the soul from that body has 
 [Kisse<l, (piicker than electric light, through uuknowii regions into 
 the clear atmosj)hei'e of eternity, and ai'rixcd at the very foot of 
 the throne of the (iodhead. We want words to express the uiys- 
 teriousness, the sublimity, the awfuluess of the truth which 
 so directly concerns <'very one of us : for wc, too, must give up 
 our souls to Uod, utul stand l)efore JJitn, vither friendless, Ijaviu^ 
 
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 SKl{>t(>X. ' . 
 
 never soiijxht tlio sinner's F''iMen<l, or to be presented us rjinsonied 
 spirits, tlirouuli Jesns Clirist, and to begiii etei-iiity in tlie blessed 
 eoTMpany oftlie sjiirits ofjnst ;nen made perfect. 
 
 ,; I tun not sure but not a tc\v make a niistake, and think and speak 
 too much about the wronj; thing. They think of the grave, how 
 forbidding it is ; and recoil at tiniling a new mother in the earth, and 
 tlieir sisterliood and brotherhood in the worm : they mourn, and think 
 of the <k*ar departed as in tlie grave ; and they go to the grave, to 
 weep there, and as it were to get tlie nearer to them. Now, haUow 
 the spot where our dead rest : but let not mere sense act to the ex- 
 clusion of faitli. Tlie shortest, sweetest verse in all the Bible contains 
 the out-gushing sym})athy of the Lord Avith bereavement, " Jesus 
 wept :'" yet lie l»ids us think of the soul — the real, the best, the 
 living part : and to lift up our eyes from the dust, and our truest 
 affection from the toinb ; and if our dead died in Christ, to have a 
 comnuinion of spirit with them in the praise of the same Redeemer : 
 to feel as if a saintly uiantle fell on us, to help us on to heaven, 
 and to live in contemplation of a joyful and unbroken reunion in the 
 world of life. It is a relic of paganism that leads us to clothe the 
 Christian mourner in sackcloth : the early Christianity had the flowing- 
 robes of white. It is the spirit of paganism that carves on the tomb- 
 stone the death scull and cross-b(mes : it is Christianity that teaches 
 us to chisel thereon the holy emblems of the anchor and the palm. 
 
 The text has an all-important (juestion. " WnERK is UK .'" Where 
 iis man after he dieth, and wasteth away i Where is he after he giveth 
 up the ghost '. Of necessity, in considering the former part in the light 
 of the gospel, the rei)ly has been indicated ; nevertheless, to complete 
 the subject, it requires a special distinctiveness. 
 
 
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 •' WuKUK IS UK r Is that all of him we see in the shroiul — all 
 of him that is wasting away under the sod in the Necroi>olis, which, 
 l>eing interpreted, means the city of the dead i Are we to learn no 
 more about him th»n can be heard from a grim member of the con- 
 gregation of the silent ( If so, it were frightful. If so, we would live 
 with the black pit of extinction gaping to receive us — to end life, with 
 all its thoughts, and deeds, and aspirations, in an eternal blank : to live 
 believing that Me are made but a little lower than the angels, and to die 
 the inferior even of the worm. My nature abhors the very thought of 
 It. There is that within me which clings to life ; if not life here, yet 
 life somewhere. The murky gloom of severe disappointment n>ay drive 
 
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 tlu' lijiht from reason ; or the (lesj)air of conscience he so terriMe as 
 to Inirrv a man from tlie present to the anywhere — and, if possihU', the 
 nowhere — bnt in ordinary c(msciousness it is the Imman feeling to keep 
 hold on existence. Even heathenism, in its every phase, has never 
 accepted death as the tinality. It nuiy not be reason, properly so called, 
 but there is a something in man which asserts a claim to inunortality. 
 Such, at any rate, has been the fact in all ages, and the broad denial of 
 it has come, strangely, only from those who, having Bible light, have 
 closed their eyes to it, and, seated in the chair (jf the scorner. have 
 impiously declared that there is no God, and preferred to liken them- 
 selves unto the beasts that i>erisli. . i. ,,,, , . ,, , , 
 
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 Where is man after he dies i Jlere, replies nature ; — not all 
 here, says a hope Avithin us ; — not here at all, says revelation. The 
 soul is the man, is the doctrine of the Bible; a doctrine which re- 
 futes nature, and substantiates the instinct of hope for life. The 
 Bible raises us from the dead body to the living sentient man returned 
 to God, and there to wait till the resurrection day when the reunion 
 shall be completed. But some man will say, how arc the dead raised 
 up. and with what bodies do they come < The reply is to be found only 
 in the word of God ; and for the argument, let me refer you to the I5th 
 chapter of 1st Corinthians, and to the evidence of the resurrection of 
 Jesus. And here comes the issue of faith or intidelity ; for, •" if Christ 
 be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and ytmr faith is also vain." 
 Some, indeed, may hold that both our pleaching and our faith are 
 fabulous, and, discarding them, view the future as a blank, and them- 
 selves as doomed to nothingness ; but their creed will not make void 
 the declaration that God hath appointed a day in the which He will 
 raise the dead, and judge them too. They may now attempt to look 
 on death, not even as a leap in the dark, l)Ut a leap into oblivion. Yet, 
 to judge bv the historv of such intidelitv, there will ( iiue a tryinu 
 hour — if the;y have time to think — when their courage to face annihila- 
 lion will fail theui. and the verity of a God aiid a Judgment to con\e 
 will !ij)pear before them as more than possible : as a fact which they had 
 derided, then rising up in awful solemnity, and cither by the mercy of 
 Christ bringing them humldy to His grace, or ringing the knell of doom 
 through all their soul. 
 
 '* WiiKHK IS im. (' .Iiulging by the unconcern of many, it would 
 seem as if they could reply, we neither know norj care. But to such 
 1 would say, what ought to awaken the deepest Interest in you more 
 than your own futurity ( Enquire, and are you no better than a i»east. 
 
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 with ii sjjirit that uoctli downwanl : or aic you a man, witli a soul whose 
 father is (t(kI :• Arc you indiftereiit about yourself^ Tlien I sliall 
 entreat for yourself — your future self— a hi^ih and lioly sellishness — that 
 you <;ive instant and earnest lieed to what the Bible teaches : that by 
 the terrors of the Lord ye be persuaded to go no farther in the way of 
 sin ; and by the ])roniise8 of the Lord you may l)c led into the way of 
 life. I would ur<?c you, by "crtain misery, that you flee from it, while 
 yet there is time ; and by.cternal blessedness, that you make it your choice 
 while it is yet within your reach ; and let faith in the Bible lay hold on 
 eternal life. It is your own self throuj^h all eternity which is the moment- 
 ous matter : it is you r. saint, or you a sinner for evbr : it is yoii to lie 
 either up anion;!; the oloiiHed. holy and happy as an auji'd who never 
 fell, or it is you down auionjij all the misery of hell — hell within you and 
 hell around you, weepinj; and wailinji' and o-uashing your teeth because 
 of misery von feel ; an<l because ot" mercy, !>race, and tjlorv, all of which 
 you have lost. 1 can plead, too, by the mercy <)f God in Christ that 
 you o'ive not yourself to perish ; foi- surely you need a Saviour, when it 
 required that none other and none less should be provided than the Son 
 of God ; and surely eternal salvation is a mij^hty reality, when Jesus 
 died to purchase it : and that in believing you nuiy have life through 
 His name. But shall you tell mc that God is so merciful that lie will 
 not condemn men to eternal misery, and therefore you shall be safe in 
 His condoning grace. Ah I remember that you know nothing of the 
 soul, or heaven, or hell otherwise than the Bil)le declares. And why 
 is there mention of heaven, if there are to be no rewards ; and why tell 
 of hell, if there is to be no punishment : Avhy faith in a Saviotir. if thbre 
 •r to be universal absolution : why a Saviour at all, if the mere mau- 
 ^date of Divine mercy is to cause ac<iuittal : where the justice of putting 
 the good and the bad on equal terms ; and where the felicities we asso- 
 ciate with heaven, if the pure and the foul are alike to compose its 
 society i Vou extol God's mercy, and so do I ; but God's mercy is here, 
 and through Christ full and free to you now : but if y(m reject it here, 
 while it is ottered, on what ground of Scrijjture, or reason, or sense can 
 you expect it. or clain it then ^ You are careless about yourself now ; 
 and whv should God be careful about vou then, and after He liad called 
 and you had refused ; after He had stretched out His hands but you 
 regarded them not ? You look for God's mercv in the future, 1 entreat 
 
 vou to seek it now 
 
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 d. in apostolic word; 
 
 I l)eseech vou therefore, 
 
 brethren, bv the mercies of God that ve liresent vour bodies a living 
 sacritice, lu»ly. acceptable unto God. which is your reasonable service." ' 
 
 
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 puriJiecl. He t?lmiri»L' givon no ojjportiinity for thtMCH.i'i)ti()n or rtijec- 
 tion of gnice tlien. His hnnnmlifo was his season of trial, and at tleatli 
 his clianveter is sealed for ever. He shall have no means, no nu-rcv, no 
 Holy 8])int to make him righteous then. Tlu; inHexIMe law is, " lie 
 that is unjust, let him l)e unjust still ; autl he who is filthy, let him be 
 Hlthy still ; and he that is righteous, let him he righteous still : and he 
 that is holy, let him be holy still." The character after death. I l)elieve, 
 will be the same in kind, but not in degree ; and will be |)r()gressiv(' 
 either in glory, or in misery. It is the law of (»od in this world that there 
 is no standing still in anything ; it is life, or decay ; it is better, or 
 worse ; and so it is respecting man ; and the same ])rincipIo will cou- 
 tinue for evermore. The saint, in the beatitudes of heaven, will be 
 receiving more knowledge as ho ascends another and yet another 
 mountain to]) of glory, and gazes afar on new scenes full of the works 
 and wonders of God ; and his book of new songs will Ix; constantly 
 (mlarging as he offers the tribute of his joy in praise to ihn] and to 
 the Lamb ; and on tlie opposite, the,condemne<t. iu the region of woe, 
 will find ii deep, and yet a lower deej). into which his nature is descend- 
 ing ; and the old passions, Avhich tired and forced him on in his lifetime, 
 gi'owing more tierce and furious in the company of tlie devil and his 
 angels ; and still hating the very evil which possesses him. and mad- 
 dened by despair, hin\self will be hell, bla/.ing in still liotter tlames. lutjj 
 
 ■ O ! brethren, hearken to the many lessons which are addressed to 
 you. The saints in glory bid you to lie follov,ers of them who 
 through tViith and patience are now inheriting the promises ; and the 
 spirits in woe would send a n\es.sage, if they could, that you come 
 not into that place of torment. The Bible has its lessons, radiant 
 with the light of heaven, and full of the experience of cai'th ; and 
 the grand object of all its teaching is to educate and prci)are you to 
 receive the I)ivin(^ benedicti«)n, and the fulness of joy to which it 
 leads. And death has its lessons, so many, and some so sad, and 
 some so sweet. Our end»lein is the shadow — and often shadows we 
 pursue. It is in the grass tliut withers, and in the llowcr that fades. 
 Here we have no day or hour we c:an truly call our own, for wc 
 know not what the next may bring. In these talternacles of ours, 
 our souls are oidy tenants at will ; and our suinvnie duty lu-re is to 
 live, using life in high and holy relations to that hereafter to which 
 the Bible jjoints the way, and which by the grace anil stryugtU of 
 Christ all the faithful shall be enabled to pursue. ••. - . 
 
 In concludinu', it is almost uimccessarv to sav that this sultjccr 
 has been forcil)lv brouyjht to our consideration bv the death of one 
 
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 of our own omjfiepHtion. I think it can be said, wi'tiiout exritinjf tinvv 
 ill any bf'east, that one of tlie very loveliest of our young people has* 
 l>a«Me(l away from us. Death, ah the reaper, with the sickle keen, has 
 selected one of our finest flowers, to pn^sent it to the Lord of Para- 
 ^Bse.' I speak of our deflr departed yotirtp friend, Maooie Ma.cdonald — 
 tiiat'was hei* old name; for her hew name, written in the white ston<* 
 of the New .lerusalem, no man knoweth save she who hath receive<l 
 it, and lie who hestoWed it. . 
 
 [fh- In her earlier days — haviujGC a good religious and secular education — 
 her special characteristic was a very imaffected and most amiable disposi- 
 tion; and <me which, if it wwe possible, improved witli her ye^irs, so that 
 she wjts a choice favorite amongst all her jwquaintances. No pride in 
 <lress, no pride in nnmner; but there was a winning ease, with dignity, 
 that in her girl-hood comnmnded alike attention aiul respect. She had 
 warmth in her uttwrtions, but not forward in showing it. She wus natur- 
 ally cheerful, but never gay : with a keen sense of the humorous, but 
 always kecjiing it within the bounds of a true relinement. She had 
 much of the beautiful — beautiful in person, beautiful in mind and 
 clmraot^r ; traits such as we might say that Jesus saw in the young 
 nobleman, and Jc-^us loved hiui for them. Still these were not enough, 
 and tlie Lord gave lu'r a cix)ss to l^ear, and sent her into the school of 
 artlictiim, to train lier tor Himself For about four years there had been 
 a ccmflict for life,, and every likely means were U4*ed to ward oft" a slow 
 liut shipping consumption. At length there came another conflict for 
 eternal life. Slve was always most resiwjotful regarding religiows 
 things, andreaclyto H'arn, divine truth ; but the gieat concern had not 
 pressed home on her h^'art till last siunmer, when tlien it did^ annmnting 
 jiJmost to a. struggle— a soul striving to get f'nmi the l^ondage of natural 
 sill' intt) the glorious liberty of the cliildreii of God, — a soul deeply con- 
 vinced of inj^'.curity seeking for refuge in Christ. — a soul in earnest, 
 asking what must I, do Xp be saved, and striving for salvation tltrough 
 the Crucifled.. Faitli, the hand of the soul, M'as at flrst weak hi the 
 trial, but it grew stronger, and at length laid hold, with a grasp that 
 w<mld never relax, on the Lord her Redeemer : and she found _|oy and 
 peace in believiug. She jn as not a member of the cliurch. though more 
 than once she thought seriously of becoming one ; and latterly, had her 
 strength permitted, she most gratefully would hav<i gone to tiie Lard's 
 table, and' with aH' its soleiufn memoriftls have confessed her frtith, and 
 satisfied her h6art at the feast which the Lord has pi'ovided for his own 
 ltelove<l. But it wa? not to be that thus and there she was to make a 
 ptiblic professitm. She did well that she did it in her heart, when she 
 
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 could do no more ; and surely the Lord actepted, according to His pro- 
 uiisc, the sacramcnting and consecration of her whole soul. And though 
 <lenied a precious privilege, ttn<l the discharge of a holy duty in the 
 courts of the Lortl's house an<l at the altar-tid^le of tlevoutest ordinance, 
 yet she failed not to confess Jesus in her sick room and on her dying 
 bed : and with almost her even last breath it wais her admonition to all 
 who knew her, and especially to those she loved so well, that they should 
 come to Jesus, and be Christians; an<l that those who profi'sso<l the 
 faith should hold it fast, and also hold it forth. 
 
 Death had no terrors to her. 8he saw InunanucPs lan<l beyond the 
 cold flow of the Jordan, and she was glad. She was so calm — so very 
 calm — with every mental faculty clear as light, and strong as ever it was ; 
 and she spoke of dying as collectedly and pleasantly as ever in the days 
 of her strength she talked of a thing of earthly joy and loving anticipa- 
 tion. She could 
 
 *• Leave the world withoiit a tear. 
 Save for the friends she held so »k*ar." 
 
 and then turning from the world, w ith all its attachment'*, she rejoiced 
 in the hope ai' meeting ('hrist, aad joining in the blissful society of the 
 redeemed around the throne. One of her delights was, from an expoai- 
 tion of Jesus' meiiuing, when He said " In my Father's house are many 
 mansions. I go to prepare a place for you" ; — that he was not leaving 
 the house, but going only to another w)om in the palace of the great 
 King ; so she, in departing, was only passing to a higher room in tjie 
 paternal residence, and to enjoy its; prej)aration and «'ompany in the 
 presence of her Lord. A favorite hymn of her's, which expres9e<l 
 her faith and feelings, is that choicest of the choice, " Just as J am, 
 without one plea ;" tmd which, at her request, was read to her a short 
 tinw; before she died ; along with another that with joy in' he 
 face, and almost with her last utterance, she kept repeating, as she 
 foretasted the glorious reality of being ''Forever with the Lord." 
 
 >jhe fell asleep in Jesus oil the morning' of tlie *21st of Maix*h, 
 and in the twentieth year of her age; and her re([uiem let it bo, as if 
 we could speak into the dull ear of death, ... 
 
 '• Thou art gone to the grave I but we will not dc'ph)re thee. 
 
 Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomj) ; . , , 
 ■ ' The Savionr has'i^assed thn>ugh its portals before tliee. 
 
 And the lamp of His love is thy gujde through the gloonr: 
 
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 XKH.MON. 
 
 •"'1 TIkmi art j^one to the ixnivt- 1 wc no longer Ik'IioIiI tlu'i\ 
 ((••iiiMi; Nor tread tlic V()\\<x\\ paths of the world \>\ thy s'kU': 
 ' •' But the \vi(U' arms of inercv are spread to enfohl tliee, , 
 And sinners may Ijop". siiiee tlie Sinless hath died. 
 
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 Thoii art gone to the j^ruve 1 I ail 'tweiv vain to deplore thee, 
 . When (Jod was thy ransom, thy guardian, thy guitle ; ,. ^ 
 lie gave thee, He took thee, and He will restore thee ; 
 And death hath no sting, since the Saviour hath died." ^^.; , 
 
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 Now, in eiosing, I would jijiecially address tiu' young ; and it wiaiid 
 Ite in the earnest luessage your tleparted young friend anil companion in 
 this house of (rod has left ; and though dead, may she speak to you. 
 urging you to early i)iety — to he Christians, — to the (ledieatiinx of your 
 heart and lite to the love and service of Him ^vllo loved you and 
 gave Himself for you. May the Dninc Spirit apply it savingly to 
 voii all : 
 
 You must <lie: y<Hi may die young: you nuiy die soon: you may 
 die without having time to [)ray : and () 1 bethink you of all that is 
 heyond death. Prepare to die ; yes, hut the best preparation Is your 
 living holiness. F*rcpare to live ; to live now a life of faith in the Son 
 of (toiI : and that is yoiu' security, let death come when and how it 
 may. The Chiistian character is the first to seek, and the best to have ,- 
 and in it there is a Avelling joy, from a fountain tha' is never dry : a 
 good hope in it that sheds bright cheer on life's darkest hours, and 
 'Ihnnines the very gloom of death, and rising u]) to the vorld of the 
 
 Innnortals, linds it turned into a glorious fruition there. '. ' " '""' ""' 
 
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 ', ' Now, may God grant that this service, on the death of her we now 
 uu)Urn, may be blessed, for the spiritual life of both young and old. 
 '• The voice said. cry. And what shall I cry .' All llesli is grass, and all 
 the goodliness thereoT is as the Howei' of the tield : the grass withereth. 
 the Hower fadeth : because the Spirit of the Lord Itloweth upon it; 
 surely the [)eoj)le is grass. The grass withereth. the iiower fadeth : l>ut 
 the wonl oi" our (iod shall stand for ever." ' = ". •,,".. 
 
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