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deplored, to commend his virtues to your regard, and, 

 particularly, to the attention and imitation of the young- 

 men and lads who are coming up among us after him. 

 We can hardly realize that we are to meet him here no 

 more. It requires no stretch of the fancy, to imagine 

 his beaming countenance in his accustomed place in the 

 assembly, and his melodious voice joining in our songs 

 of praise. And though he is not here, and will no more 

 be, yet his footsteps are here, and it may be pleasant and 

 profitable for us to gather up those remembrances of him 

 by which he, being dead, yet speaketh. 



1. His filial reverence. I mention this first, because 

 of all the amiable and hopeful virtues of youth this is 

 first developed, and contains the germ of every other. 

 "Honor thy father and thy mother (which is the first 

 commandment with promise), that it may be well with 

 thee, and that thou mayest live long on the earth." 

 How eminently both the precept and the promise here 

 commended to us were exemplified in our departed 

 friend, you who new him can tell. Although, indeed, 

 in respect to the number of his years, we mourn his 

 early death, yet, in respect to his amount of usefulness, 

 he lived long upon the earth ; and but for his filial 

 reverence, this had not been. Go back to his early child- 

 hood, and none of you remember a disrespectful word 

 concerning his father or mother to have passed his lips. 

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