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but who, if under the care and control of a benevolent 
association, duly authorized to apprentice them to 
proper parties at the proper times, would be fitted for 
lives of usefulness in the occupations selected for 
them; that I believed there would be no serious diffi- 
culty in getting the proper legislation for such an 
institution, and in finding competent, honest, honora- 
ble and benevolent gentlemen to act as trustees in it, 
of he would found it and act as one of its trustees during 
his life time, and that such an institution would proba- 
bly live and do its work for centuries, if the trustees, 
carefully selected, were not only authorized but ve- 
guired to fill promptly vacancies by death or other 
causes as they occurred. Mr, Seybert was impressed 
by these views, and at an earlier period of life, and 
previous to his belief in Spiritualism, when he could 
have acted as a member of the trust, would probably 
have adopted them. As it was, realizing that he 
could not reasonably expect to live more than two 
or three months, he deemed it best to give up the idea 
of an early trusteeship for the proposed charity, and 
do what he could to promote the object in his will 
which was signed, sealed and executed on the 25th of 
December last. 
A reader of the will will find in one of the last 
clauses of it, that he directs his body to be “ cremated 
at the Lemoyne Cemetery at Washington, Pennsyl- 
vania.” I knew that cremation had been for many 
years preferred by him to the usual mode of sepul- 
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