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pointed hour, knowing that his ways are right, and his 

 counsels wise ; that light is sown for the righteous, and 

 gladness for the upright in heart ; that whatever dark- 

 ness may for the present veil his designs, the cloud will 

 be removed ; it will be seen and confessed that he hath 

 done all things well. 



Finally, this affecting death renews to us the admoni- 

 tion so often repeated of the vanity of man as mortal. 

 Only a few months since, there was scarcely a young 

 man in our country, whose condition the deceased would 

 have preferred to his own. Now, how changed, and but 

 for that which is above what flesh is heir to, how vain to 

 him now were the advantages, the acquirements, the 

 fame, and the virtues themselves, by which he was dis- 

 tinguished ! Blessed be God, there is a life, " unmeasured 

 by the flight of years. There is an inheritance incor- 

 ruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away." There 

 is a glorious conqueror, standing on the ruins of two 

 hundred generations, and proclaiming, "I am the re- 

 surrection and the life : he that believeth on me, though 

 he were dead yet shall he live. Whosoever liveth and 

 believeth on me shall never die." May you all aspire to 

 that nobler life. May you all believe in him who holds 

 out to you the heavenly gift. Suffer no delay; for on 

 your immortal being hangs the dread alternative of eter- 

 nal life or eternal death. Trust not to youth, to health, 



