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Will long be held in pleasing remembrance by them,
"He being dead yet speaketh."
Reader! pause,

And contemplate the uncertainty of human things
And adore the Providence of him

Who worketh all things after the council of his own will,
But whose judgments are unsearchable,
And his ways past finding out.
Art thou young? Yet dost thou stand
Upon the brink of the grave,

And although the tongue, which once warned you,
Lies silent in this tomb,

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Yet from this tomb a solemn warning issues,
Be ye therefore also ready.

EVENING, AN EXTRACT.

"Let my prayer be-as the evening sacrifice“

SOFTLY now the light of day

Fades upon my sight away;

Free from care, from labour free

Lord, I would commune with Thee!
Thou whose all pervading eye

Nought escapes, without, within,
Pardon each infirmity,

Open fault, and secret sin,

Soon, for me the light of day

Shall forever pass away;

Then, from sin and sorrow free

Take me, Lord, to dwell with Thee!

Thou who, sinless, yet hast known,

All of man's infirmity;

Then, from thy eternal throne,
JESUS, look with pitying eye.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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VOL. II.

The Gift of Prayer-its Exercise and Cultivation Biographical Sketch...... 366

Holy Affections necessary to the right understanding of Divine Truth

The Moon and Stars, a Fable 378

Creation

Biographical Reading

The Destruction of Sodom.. 386

Earthly Bliss.

Comtemplations of Nature,

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