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ing up the grave and dispelling forever all its fearful shadows ! Earth is 

 changing ! but Heaven is stable and sure ! Fix your affections there ! and 

 now from that solitary place in the wilderness where my Brother breathed 

 out his life, and passed from earth ; aye from that bier on which now lie 

 his mortal remains, there cometh a voice addressed to you, to me, to all 

 present — and yet it singles us out and addresses us each, and its language 

 is, " Be ye also ready for the coming of the Son of man ! prepare to meet 

 God !" Obey this voice, and your death scene shall be peaceful as are an- 

 gelic slumbers, and your eternity shall be passing happy, and supremely 

 blissful as of the riches of Jehovah's grace ! Thus prepared and panopli- 

 ed, when you come to walk through the valley of the shadow of death you 

 shall have the rod and the staff, the presence of Him, who is the Resur- 

 rection and the Life. 



