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to a course of prosperity unbroken in the past, or to pros- 

 pects yet brightening in the future. Think of him who 

 had all these to lean upon and who now lies silent in the 

 grave. No, not silent ; for " being dead he yet speaketh ;" 

 and the accents are, "my days are past, my purposes 

 are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart." "Cease 

 ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for wherein 

 is he to be accounted of? " " Trust ye in the Lord for- 

 ever; for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength." 

 Amen. 



