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stinctive fears alarm him, as all unconscious of danger in 

 his path, he approached the fatal ledge of the precipice ? — 

 We know not. Did any exclamation burst from his lips, 

 at the instant he became sensible of falling from its dizzy 

 height? God only knoweth. We only know that his life 

 had been such as to give to all who knew and loved him, 

 the precious consolation of hope in his death. We only 

 know that his name will hereafter be encircled with the 

 same halo that sheds its light upon the names of the Frank- 

 lins — the Andersons and the Kanes, who perished in pros- 

 ecuting their labors in the cause of science — in making 

 known the wonders of God's works, and the fruits of whose 

 efforts and cares were meekly and modestly laid at the foot 

 of the cross. I hold up the example of his life as embody- 

 ing the elements of precious consolation to his surviving 

 family and friends ; of animating encouragement to the 

 young, and of solemn warning to the living ; admonishing 

 them to remember, by a catastrophe never to be forgotten, 

 that "in the midst of life we are in death. ' ' I hold it up to his 

 children, as the strongest incentive that can nerve the heart 

 by sweet memories of the dead, to walk as he walked, in 

 virtue's ways. I take it to his now desolate hearth-stone — 

 to his widowed home, and unfolding there a life and con- 

 versation, all of which are treasured up in the deepest re- 

 cesses of the soul, I would say to the bruised spirit, in 

 remembrance of the rich mercies of the past, be comforted, 

 by all the kindling hopes of the future. Let the holy re- 

 collections of years gone — the path of life's pilgrimage, il- 

 luminated by the light which shone from a faith illustrat- 

 ed by good works — throw brightness over his grave ; con- 

 i^ecrate his memory; and spread the hue of Heaven's own 

 gladness over the bereaved and rilled bosom, in contempla- 

 ting the assurance of a happy re-union beyond the tomb. 



As the traveller wends his weary way along the journey 

 of life, his eye, from many a distant point in his road, will 



