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expectation of annihilation will add no value to a life where all 

 moral principle has been wanting. It will give no comfort to a 

 death, where every thought, every word, every action, every friend 

 and every foe is buried in one eternal oblivion. Happy Chris- 

 tian ! sleep in peace; thy Saviour is thy kind and compassionate 

 friend, through all the stages of thy various life ; and if, by Divine 

 grace, thou continuest faithful unto death, thou mayest look for- 

 ward to his further help, when he shall open for thee the gate of 

 an everlasting state of existence ! " Brewster. 



