
          3.

favours bestowed for you in
the enjoyment for so long a time
of the assistance, the sympathy,
and the love of such a companion
and for the consolation
to be derived from the reflection
that she was sustained and
directed in her passage through
this life of probation by a spirit
superior to her own.

We are so liable to go astray
so beset with adverse influences
and so little able to control our
own acts, or to direct our own
course that the end of a well spent
life may justly be compared to
the successful termination of a
voyage, after having been exposed
to the dangers of a stormy
        