hou likewise? None whom affluence permits, endowments
qualify, and piety prompts, to aim at her distinction by treading in
her steps? Maidens, are there none among you who would wish to array
yourselves hereafter in the honors of this virtuous woman? Your hearts
have dismissed their wonted warmth and generosity, if they do not
throb as the revered vision rises before you. Then prepare yourselves
now, by seeking and serving the God of her youth. You cannot be too
early adorned with the robes of righteousness and the garments of
salvation in which she was wedded, in her morning of life, to Jesus
the King of glory. That same grace which threw its radiance around
her, shall make you also to shine in the beauty of holiness; and the
fragrance of those virtues which it shall create, develope, and
ennoble, will be 'as the smell of a field which the Lord hath
blessed.'

"Yea, let me press upon all the transcendent excellence of
Christian character, and the victorious power of Christian hope. The
former bears the image of God; the latter is as imperishable as his
throne. We fasten our eyes with more real respect and more heart-felt
approbation upon the moral majesty displayed in walking as Christ also
walked, than upon all the pomps of the monarch or decorations of the
military hero. More touching to the sense and more grateful to high
heaven is the soft melancholy with which we look after our departed
friend, and the tear which embalms her memory, than the thundering
plaudits which rend the air with the name of a conqueror. She has
obtained a triumph over that foe who shall break the arm of valor, and
strike off the crown of kings. 'The fashion of this world passeth
away.' Old Time approaches towards his last hour. The proudest
memorials of human grandeur shall be food for the conflagration to be
kindled when 'the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven in flaming
fire. Then shall he be glorified in his saints, and admired in all
them that believe.'

"There are those perhaps, in the present assembly, who repute
godliness fanaticism, and the sobriety of Christian peace the gloom of
a joyless spirit; but who cannot forbear sighing out, with the prophet
of mammon, 'Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end
be like his.' If they proceed no further, their wish will not be
granted. None shall die the death of the righteous, unless by a rare
dispensation of mercy, who do not live his life. They only are fi