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be over; through their last lingering shadows you will see the
promised rainbow. It will whisper of a happy land where all
storms are over. Will you not strive to meet me in that clime of
unending sunshine? Oh! yes, I know you will; that you will also
try to lead our child along that path of glory; that you will
claim for him an entrance to that celestial city whose maker and
builder is God. Teach him the way of truth and virtue. Tell him
for what and how his father left him ere his lips could lisp my
name. Pray for him. Remember that there is no golden gateway to
the realms of pleasure here, but there is one for the redeemed in
the land that lies starward. There I hope we may meet, when you
have completed your pilgrimage on the road of life. Years will
pass on and your journey will soon be ended. Live so that when
from the verge of life you look back you may feel no vain
regrets, no bitter anguish for mis-spent years. Look to God in
all your troubles; cast yourself on Him when your heart is dark
with the night of sorrow and heavy with the weight of woe. He
will shed over you the bright sunshine of His love, and take away
the burden from your heart.

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And now farewell. May that all-wise and eternal God, who governs
all things, be with you to guide and protect you through life,
and bring us together in eternal joy beyond the grave. Farewell,
fond partner of my heart and soul. Farewell, dear babe of our
love. A last, long farewell, till we meet in heaven.

I remain, in life and death, your devoted husband.
JOHN E. COOK.

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FUNERAL OF JOHN E. COOK.

The funeral of Capt. Cook took place at Brooklyn on the 20th, from the
residence of Mrs. S. L. Harris. The services were conducted by the
Rev. Mr. Caldicott, of the Lee Avenue Dutch Reformed Church, and at
the Cypress Hills Cemetery by the Rev. Wm. H. Johnson. Of the body the
day previous, the _Tribune_ says:

Owing to the length of time that elapsed between the decease and
the time the body was delivered into the charge of Dr. Holmes,
the process of embalming has been somewhat difficult, and
consequently the appearance of the remains is not so natural as
it otherwi