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more appropriate places of sepulture. There is a 

 growing sense in the community of the inconvenien- 

 ces, and painful associations, not to speak of the un- 

 healthiness of interments, beneath our churches. The 

 tide, which is flowing with such a steady and widen- 

 ing current into the narrow peninsula of our Metrop- 

 olis, not only forbids the enlargement of the common 

 limits, but admonishes us of the increasing dangers 

 to the ashes of the dead from its disturbing move- 

 ments. Already in other cities, the church-yards are 

 closing against the admission of new incumbents, and 

 begin to exhibit the sad spectacle of promiscuous 

 ruins and intermingled graves. 



We are, therefore, but anticipating at the present 

 moment, the desires, nay the necessities of the next 

 generation. We are but exercising a decent anxiety 

 to secure an inviolable home for ourselves and our 

 posterity. We are but inviting our children and their 

 descendants, to what the Moravian Brothers have, 

 with such exquisite propriety, designated as " the 

 Field of Peace." 



A rural Cemetery seems to combine in itself all the 

 advantages, which can be proposed to gratify human 

 feelings, or tranquillize human fears ; to secure the 

 best religious influences, and to cherish all those as- 

 sociations, which cast a cheerful light over the dark- 

 ness of the grave. 



And what spot can be more appropriate than this, 

 for such a purpose ? Nature seems to point it out 

 with significant energy, as the favorite retirement for 

 the dead. There are around us all the varied fea- 



