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aside every weight, and run with patience the race set 

 before us. So, also, our personal acquaintances who 

 have died in the faith, and whose virtues are embalmed 

 in our memories, though dead, yet speak, exhorting us 

 to follow their example. Though gone from us, never 

 to return, they live, and seem to be present with us in 

 their accustomed scenes. They seem to speak to us in 

 those scenes, renewing and confirming the lessons of 

 wisdom, which they gave us, in word or deed, when they 

 were here, and to do this with new impressiveness, in 

 consideration of their end. 



We ought then to heed their voice ; to call up the 

 remembrance of their lives, and consider what there 

 may be, by which they, being dead, yet speak. To aid 

 you in this, I have ocasionally sketched before you cer- 

 tain characteristics of some of our deceased friends, as 

 I have had the time and opportunity. I have done it, 

 not to eulogise the dead, but to benefit the living ; and 

 with this in view I would now remind you of some of the 

 more striking traits of character in our lately deceased 

 friend, Prof. Norton. He was yet in his youth — the 

 character of his childhood and youth is fresh in the 

 remembrance of many of us — he was loved by all of 

 us who knew him, and his death is greatly and very ex- 

 tensively lamented; and I wish to take advantage of 

 these circumstances of the event which we so deeply 



