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Safe through the deep, where every yawning wave 

 Still to the sailor's eye displays his grave ; 

 Through howling tempests, and through gulfs untried, 

 O mighty God ! be thou their watchful guide ! 



Of the nineteen youths with whom I thus commenced my juve- 

 nile career, seventeen died in India many years before my depar- 

 ture ; one only besides myself then survived : with him I formed an 

 early friendship, which continued without interruption to his 

 death, for he also has since fallen a sacrifice to the climate, and I 

 have been for nearly ten years the only survivor! Many in this 

 country who have participated in the generous, hospitable, and 

 social virtues of the late Daniel Seton of Surat, will unite in this 

 little eulogy to his memory, and lament that he was not permitted 

 to return home, and enjoy the delights of domestic happiness 

 with his amiable family, who left him some years before, to ac- 

 quire, under the eye of maternal affection, those accomplishments 

 which cannot be attained in India. This separation of families is 

 a great alloy to a residence in that distant country, Avhere parents 

 are obliged to part with these sweet pledges of connubial love; 

 or a fond mother is compelled, as it were, to divide herself in the 

 performance of her tenderest duties. 



I greatly admire a passage in Pliny's letters on the subject of 

 human mortality. The sentiments of that amiable and virtuous 

 heathen are as exalted and noble as can be conceived in a mind 

 unassisted by divine revelation. Happily a Christian's view of 

 immortality is of a more sublime and durable nature, extending 

 beyond the bounds of time to a scene of endless duration. 



" Within what narrow limits are the lives of so great a multi- 



