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SCRIPTURE  AND  HYMNS
USED AT THE FUNERAL OV
DEACON   SAMUEL  C.  PAINE,  M.D.,


              APRIL 4,  1888.


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  L'REACIIKD AT THE MEMORIAL SKRVICB, IN TUB CONGREGATIONAL
        Church, Oxford, Mass., April 8th, 1888, by
             the Pastor of the Church,

        Rev.  WILLIAM N.  T. DEAN.
       WORCESTER:
PRESS OF CHAS.  HAMILTON,
     ;;il Main street.
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SCRIPTURE READ AT THE  FUNERAL.
     ELP, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth, for the faithful fail from
       among the children of men.
         For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts doth take away from
Jerusalem and  from Judah the stay and the staff,  the  mighty man,
* * * * and the prudent, and the ancient, and the honorable man and
the counsellor.
  But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that
formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called
thee by thy name; thou art mine.
  For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kind-
ness shall not depart from  thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace
be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
  Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though
the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
  Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains
shake with the swelling thereof.
  The Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is our refuge.
  In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so I would
have told you; fori go to prepare  a  place for you.  And if I go and
prepare a place for you I will come again and receive  you unto myself;
that where I am, there ye may be also.  For this corruptible must put
on incorruption, and  this  mortal must  put on immortality. But when
this  corruptible shall  have have put on incorruption, and this mortal
shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is
written, Death is swallowedjip in victory.
  And I heard a great voice out of  the throne saying, Behold the taber-
nacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall
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be his people, and God himself shall be  with them and be their God;
and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes : and death shall be
no more:  neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor  pain,  any
more:
  After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could
number, of all nations, and kindreds,  and people, and tongues, stood
before the throne, and before the lamb,  clothed with white robes, and
palms in their hands;
  And cried with a loud voice, saying,  Salvation to our God who sitteth
upon the throne, and unto the lamb.
  And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders
and the four living creatures, and fell before the throne on their faces,
and worshipped God,
  Saying, Amen:  Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving,
and honour, and power, and might, be  unto our God forever  and ever.
Amen.
  And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these who
are arrayed in white robes ? and whence came they ?
  And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest.  And he said unto me, These
are they who came out of the great tribulation, and have washed their
robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
  Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and
night in his temple : and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among
them.
  They shall hunger no more,  neither thirst any  more;  neither shall
the sun light on them, nor any heat.
  For, the Lamb,'which is in the midst of the throne, shall feed them,
and shall  lead them unto living fountains of  waters: and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes.
  And  I heard a  voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write, Blessed
are the dead  that die in  the  Lord from henceforth: Yea,  saith the
Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works  do follow
them.
  Our soul waiteth for the Lord ;  He is our help  and our  shield.   Our
heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in his holy name. 
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  Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us according as we have hoped in
thee.
  Return  unto  thy rest, O my soul: for the Lord hath dealt bounti-
fully with thee.
  For thou hast delivered ray soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and
my feet from falling.
  What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits toward me ?
  I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord.
  I will pay my vows unto  the Lord,  yea,  in the presence of all his
people.
  Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
  They that are planted in the house of  the Lord, shall  flourish in the
courts of our God.
  They shall still bring forth fruit in old age, to show that the Lord is
upright;
  He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
  But I would  not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them
which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.
  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also
who sleep in Jesus  will God bring with him.
  For this we say  unto you  by the  word of the Lord, that we who are
alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them
who are asleep.
  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice  of  the archangel, and  with the trump of  God: and the dead in
Christ shall rise first:
  Then we who are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds, to meet the  Lord in the air: and so shall we ever
be with the Lord.
  Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved
us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through  grace, comfort
your hearts and establish them in every good work and word. 
FAVORITE  HYMNS  OF DR. PAINE,
        Sung at the Funeral, April 4, 1888.
ABIDE  WITH ME!
 * BIDE with me!  Fast falls the eventide;
**• The darkness deepens —Lord, with me abide!
When other helpers fail, and comforts flee,
Help of the helpless, Oh, abide with me!

Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day;
Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away;
Change and decay in all around I see;
O thou, who changest not, abide wi*h me!

Hold thou thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom, and point me to the skies;
Ifeaven'.s morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee!
In life, in death, O Lord,  abide with me!
       HAIL, TRANQUIL HOUR.

IT AIL tranquil hour of closing day!
*■*-  Begone, disturbing care!
And look, my soul, from earth away
  To him who heareth prayer.

How sweet, through long-remembered years,
  His mercies to recall;
And, pressed with wants, and griefs, and fears,
  To trust his love for all.

How sweet to look,  in thoughtful hope,
  Beyond this fading sky,
And hear him call his children up
  To his fair home on high.

Calmly the day forsakes our heaven
  To dawn beyond the west;
So let my soul,  in life's last even,
  Retire to glorious  rest. 
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HEAVEN  ANTICIPATED.
niHEKK is an hour of peaceful rest,
*■  To mourning wanderers given;
There is joy for souls distressed,
A balm for every wounded breast,
  'Tis found above — in heaven.

There is a home for weary souls,
  By sin and sorrow driven —
When tossed on life's tempestuous shoals,
Where storms arise and ocean rolls,
  And all is drear — but heaven.

There, fragrant flowers immortal bloom,
  And joys supreme are given;
There, rays divine disperse the gloom;
Beyond the confines of the tomb
  Appears the dawn of heaven! 
 
S E 11 M 0 N .
2  3.Vuujs, 2: 12,—Ph father, my father, the  chariots of  Israel
                and the horsemen thereof!

   O said Elisha as Elijah was taken from  him into heaven.
    Elisha was much younger than Elijah but their lives
had touched each other in the work  of the Lord.   The time
had  come when they were to be separated.   As they went
from town to town to visit the schools of the prophets  which
Elijah  had founded,  the young men from each one came
forth to meet  them  with the same question to Elisha,
" Knowest thou that the Lord  will take away thy master
from thy head to-day?"  And he answered, "Yea, I know
it, hold ye your peace."
   How often is it  the  fact that  the time of departure is
revealed to every one else  but  the  one  who is about to be
called.
   And it came to pass as they still went on and talked that,
as it were, a chariot and  horses of fire swept by and Elijah
went up into heaven.  "And Elisha saw it, and he  cried,
My  father,  my father, the chariots  of  Israel  and  the
horsemen thereof.   And he saw  him no more."  It  was a
wonderful ending of a wonderful life ! 
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  Elisha's cry, " My father, my father," expressed personal
endearment,  expressed  the  thought  that a counsellor  was
taken upon whom  he had learned to lean.  In calling  him
the chariots of Israel  and the horsemen thereof, he  said
that what such  warlike  preparations were to  the kingdoms
of the earth that Elijah had been to Israel.   As he  saw
him go away from him a feeling of loss, of loss of strength
came over him and he cried out,  "O my father, my father,
arm of defence,  source of prosperity of Israel, thou art
leaving us when we so much need thee."
  Elijah's power  in Israel had  been his loyalty to God.
Apparently he had stood alone  with him there.   He  was
characteristically a man of God, and hence his  service to
his  people.  As such his  life  speaks to us to-day, and the
lesson that I would  read from it in connection  with the one
which is the immediate occasion of this service is that

Men of  fervent  piety,  are, on the human  side,  the
  preservation and prosperity of the  church.

  We  recognize the Divine side.   We  see the two olive
trees, one standing on each  side of the  golden candlestick
and supplying its  lamps with oil, but our thought to-day
is of the  men loyal to God who are the lamps.  Men of
wise and  understanding hearts, of unfeigned faith in God,
and devoted upon evangelical principles to the service of 
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Christ and their  fellow-men.   Among them, held in  ever-
lasting remembrance, have been Enoch, who "walked with
God," and had this best of all testimonies, that "he pleased
God."  Noah,  "a just and perfect man in his generation."
Abraham, "the friend of God."   Moses, "God's  chosen."
David, a man after God's own  heart, who, notwithstanding
his faults,  consecrated his great talents,  his royal power,
and  his inexhaustible treasures to the noblest of all pur-
poses.  Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ and an apostle who
in the short space of thirty years, did so much to enlighten,
reform, and bless mankind.  Barnabas, of whom it is  writ-
ten,  "He was a good man and  full of the Holy Ghost and
of faith," and by whose  influence "much people was added
to the Lord," and a multitude  of others coming  down to
this very Sabbath, "of whom the world was not worthy."
   Men, some of whom  were great as well as good, but  all
of whom  were favorably  regarded by  the Divine Being
merely on account of their moral excellence, and whose
power in the world and in the church was the fruit of  their
devotion to God.  Of course  it is not  denied that  great
talents, learning and wealth are highly important in  their
place,  and that  eminent  piety when joined with such quali-
ties is more  likely to  attract attention,  command respect
and extend  its  beneficial  influence to a wider sphere, than
when alone.  But what  is affirmed is, that piety, purity,
godliness, which are apparently little noticed by the world,
and by it, perhaps, speedily forgotten, are not only held in 
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everlasting remembrance  by God, but are the preserving
element, "the salt" of the church, and the pervasive element,
"the leaven" of the church in the world, as well as the grand
ornament and safeguard of that very world which disregards
and forgets them.   Christ  said to such persons, "Ye are
the light of the world," that is,  you prevent moral darkness
from covering the earth.   Again,  "Ye are the salt of the
earth," or  those  who preserve the social  mass from cor-
ruption.
  Men of fervent piety contribute to the preservation and
prosperity  of the  church :
  I.  By  their  susceptibility  to  religious instruction and
hence their adaptedness to impart instruction.
  Although piety is  a disposition of the heart rather than of
the intellect,  and the intellect is the seat of instruction, yet
there  is  such a  thing as  "the  eyes of  the  heart  being
enlightened," and a fervent  piety is one of the best means
of attaining useful  knowledge.   I will  not attempt to ex-
plain how, but such certainly is  the  fact.   It is a  common
thought that the way to elevate the understandings of man-
kind is to purify  the heart.  The approach must be made
through the affections.   "Let men feel right towards God"
it is said, "and they will soon think right;  let the  heart be
pure and the understanding will be  clear."   Error  in the
heart is the source of error in the head.  Let the heart then
be right with God and, as a rule,  the head will be.  And
so men  are fitted to be instructed and instructors, both in 
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morals and religion, where the value  of  correct opinions
cannot be  over-estimated.  Action  is the  result of belief.
"As a man thinketh in his heart so is he."  And belief can
never  be  right  where  opinions  essentially wrong  are
admitted and cherished.  Hence the man  who contributes
towards the dissemination and  reception of correct  senti-
ments  in a community is a man  of strength in the  church.
Guided into all truth themselves such  men are fitted to be
guides to others.   Their influence may  be without observa-
tion, but it is  all powerful in favor of right practice.   I
know not,  therefore, a more rational  prayer  that can  be
offered than the one,—
                " A wise and understanding heart
                 To all thy servants give."

  II.   By their  example.  They are always men of prin-
ciple.
  I cannot conceive of a man  of  fervent piety  without
principle.   There are men who call themselves Christians,
who profess to believe all the articles of the creed  and are
members of the  church, who  are  wholly men of impulse.
They  follow the  multitude,  as  often To do evil as to  do
good.  If the tide  runs high, religiously,  they are on  top
of the wave, if it runs low they are  way out at sea and the
faith is shipwrecked.   They are not  men of principle, and
they are never men remarkable for their fervency of piety.
They are not the  strength of the church, far from it.   The
church carries  them, not they the church.  But the  man 
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of fervent piety, who believes and therefore speaks, who
believes  and therefore  acts, who  always acts one  way
because  the ground of right action  is always  one way,
whom  you  always  know where to find  and are  always
sure of finding him  in the right place.   Such men arc  a
tower of strength by their example.  Seen to be directed
by  an  unseen  Being, living  as seeing Him who is invisi-
ble, enffap-ino;  in duties which are difficult fo carry for-
ward, because  One  whom they  believe, would have them,
they are a  power in the world that  wickedness  cannot
resist.   Whatever may be said against them, or against the
Lord whom they serve,  in  the   heart of even the most
ungodly  they  are  respected.  They are living epistles,
known and read of all men as witnesses for Christ and thus
as examples of godliness they contribute to the preservation
and prosperity of the church.

  III.   By their prayers.
  They are men who have audience with God.   What their
power  is, therefore, no finite mind  can estimate.   Queen
Mary of Scotland said, "I fear John Knox's  prayers more
than an  army of ten thousand men."  The  apostle James
tells us that "the effectual," or better "the earnest, fervent
prayer of a righteous man availeth much."   Of Elijah we
are told,  "He  was a man subject to like passions as we are,
and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it rained
not on the earth for the space of three years and six months.
And he  prayed again, and the  heaven gave rain and the 
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earth brought forth  her fruit."   Moses by his prayer, in
more than one instance  saved the people of Israel.  "For
God said that  he would have  destroyed  them  had  not
Moses, his chosen, stood before Him in the breach."
  Other  men have  prevailed  with God,  and  by  their
prayers have brought His blessing upon themselves, their
families,  the church, and the communities around  them.
  These  are only a few of many specifications that might be
made to  indicate  to  us that  men of fervent piety are, on
the human side,  the  preservation and  prosperity of  the
church, and when one such is taken  from us it is a debt
which  survivors owe, not so much to  his own memory,
perhaps,  as to the  grace which made him what he was, to
see to it, that while his  labors are not forgotten, or passed
lightly by, the qualities by which the  great results have
been achieved should be in some measure appreciated.
  Our beloved and venerable deacon was opposed to eulo-
gies, but how can we speak of him  without eulogizing?
We have gathered here this morning, a church of which he
was an ardent lover, an honored member and officer, a wise
director,  we have gathered  here  a  company of friends,
neighbors and fellow-citizens to do homage to  his memory.
We may  not praise him, but must we not praise God  who
made him what  he was,  and who made him to be so much?
Shall we  not thank  Him this  morning for  the natural
endowments with which  our brother was equipped and
thus fitted for his  long and useful life ? 
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  Samuel Chandler Paine was born not far from the place
where  his life work was done.  His father, John Paine, is
spoken of as a leading citizen of Woodstock, Conn.  His
mother, whose maiden name  was Betsy Smith, was one of
a devoted Christian family of the same town.   Eight chil-
dren were born to  them, of whom  Samuel was  the  oldest.
He  was  born on Saturday, February  21,  1807.   In  his
early home there was a "reign of law " of which  his parents
were the executors, and where  he learned  the lesson  of
obedience in childhood.   When his parents became Christ-
ians he was quite a boy.  They gave themselves and their
children to the Lord, and entered  into covenant with Him,
which  was  sealed  by "household baptism."   The boy
Samuel thought himself rather too old to be called an infant,
but his preferences were not consulted, his parents decided
and 'twas his merely to obey.  Thus taught,  obedience  at
school  was easy, obedience to the State natural when he
became a citizen, and when it pleased  God  to  reveal His
Son in him  he became obedient  unto the heavenly  vision.
Being  under authority he knew how to exercise authority
over those who were under him, and  hence his influence in
his home.  His boyhood was spent with brothers and sisters
on the farm.  It  was his father's strong  desire that he
should receive a professional education, but no work seemed
to him like farm work, no life so desirable as a farmer's
life.  To wean him from the farm his father made the work
hard, but the harder it was the more it pleased the boy and
the better it was done.   How, then, came it to pass, I asked, 
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 that he left  the  farm? and the answer  was,  "It was his
 obedience."  His father finally commanded and his son left
 home to commence a course of study in  Dudley Academy.
 In this and Monson Academy he was fitted for college  and
 was  graduated at Yale in his twenty-first year, and at Yale
 Medical School three years after.  He found the library of
 the college very attractive, but the  books which engaged
 his attention  chiefly, in his  own later judgment, were not
 the ones that were calculated to do him  the most good or
 which he most  needed, nor was it till he  began his profes-
 sional studies that he  became really and  intensely  inter-
 ested.   While  at college he  had a severe sickness, typhus
 fever, which  threatened to end his life.   His mother was
 sent  for, went to him, cared for him  and prayed earnestly
 that  his life might be spared.  The prayer was  heard, but
 her own life  was taken.   We can  imagine the severity of
 the stroke to him, as  he considered the greatness of his
 ransom.
  Having finished his  studies he  was married  June  18,
 1834, to Miss Abigail  Davis.   He had made  his home in
 this community three years before, to be separated from it
 only  by death.
  Of his life  here as a citizen  more is known  by you  than
 by me.   He was a man in whom his  fellow-townsmen had
confidence and  by whom they would  be governed at  home
and represented abroad.  Being free  himself he was one of
the first to espouse the cause of freedom for  others.   He
believed  in helping the weak,  and although he loved his 
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brother in Africa  and India, whom he had never  seen, he
loved no less  his African brother in the Southern States,
and delighted to honor institutions like the American Mis-
sionary Association  which should do their work for the
despised races near at home.   He was a warm friend of the
Union Missionary Society, even before the one which  now
cares for the freedmen was thought of, and when to be one
of its supporters was to cut oneself off from nearly all friends
and relations.   But none of these things moved him.  He
was not a man pleaser, nor a policy man, and in spite of the
threats of his brethren in the church even, to forsake him if
he didn't forsake the negro, he joined the "Liberty Party,"
as it was called, and was one of the few in this community
who talked against and voted against the wrongs of African
slavery.  He  lived to see his principles triumph, to see
slavery abolished;  to see it demonstrated that it  is not
throwing away a vote to cast it on  the  side of right when
certain that it  will not and cannot be an  immediate success.
  But as a citizen he  was Doctor Paine.   What the people
of Oxford thought of the new Doctor fifty-seven years ago
only a few old  people, who  were then boys and girls, can
tell us, even if they can remember.  But what has he been
found to be as he  has  traversed these roads from  house  to
house, and stood by the bedside of generation after genera-
tion,  helping,  comforting, encouraging,  ministering unto
the necessities, both of body and  soul?
  Nor must we overlook the fact that no small portion  of
the usefulness  of this long life in our community was due 
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to his unusually  gifted  wife.   As I  hear her  spoken
of she seems to have been  a help, meet  for counsel,  and
stimulus  and aid in all  his  work.  Her  memory claims a
place in your thoughts to-day.  In both  Doctor and Mrs.
Paine the town has  been signally favored,  and the  rich
fruits of  their prolonged labors  ought to give value to our
estimate of the  possibilities of life.   "The hoary head  is a
crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness."
And, "Every  wise woman  buildeth her house,  but the
foolish plucketh it down with her hands."
  Again, shall we not thank God this morning for the grace
which so  fully developed our brother's natural endowments.
His  life  would not have been what it was in any  respect
were it  not  for  the fact  that he  was a  Christian.   All
that  he was naturally was lifted up  to a  higher level by
the Holy Spirit.
  We have spoken of his home training and obedience, but
all this was not sufficient to make him a child of  God and a
servant of Jesus  Christ.   We  have no  doubt that  the
prayers of his parents, and God's providences, had their
influence, but it was not till' after his home was established
in this place that he made the great decision.  It was  at a
time of revival under the  direction of Rev. Almon  Under-
wood.   Not  at one of the  meetings, but  at his home he
struggled with the  question.   "It  is  now  or   never,"
whispered the  Spirit.   "It is  now," was  his response.
His wife  was not then a Christian, but it was  not long,  till,
like the wife of Bunyan's pilgrim, she joined her husband. 
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Henceforth their Christian home, henceforth their Christian
work.   On the sixth of December, 1835, both were received
into this church by profession of faith in connection with
eighty-seven others.  Mrs. Paine, with forty-three  others,
was baptized,  the rest had been baptized in infancy.   Of
the ninety who were received into the church on that Sab-
bath [one  was received by  letter]  only six remain, one
brother,  Mr. George  Miller, and five sisters, Miss Susan
F.  Eddy, Mrs. Caroline DeWitt Fuller,  Miss Lucy Ann
Pratt, Miss Erlunia Smith, and Mrs. Mary B. Wetherell.
  Deciding to  be a  christian and uniting with the church is
not absolute proof that one is really converted.   This fact
is  often  painfully  demonstrated, but years of  Christian
living, years of service in which Christ is made the  promi-
nent motive, removes all occasion for  doubt.   So lived the
good man of whom we are  thinking to-day.  His face was
known in other towns than this as an ambassador for Christ.
But here he was best known and  here he  will be  most
missed.   It was subject of remark,  when, three weeks ago
to-day, his seat in  his pew was vacant,  so seldom has  it
been vacant in all the years he has lived here.  Even when
engaged  in a large practice he planned to  be at church  at
the hour of service.  If there were more calls to be made
than could be attended to between the ordinary rising time
Sabbath  morning and  church time, the  family  must  rise
earlier than usual.   The Doctor must attend to his patients
in season for the  Deacon to come to church.  Nor did he
fail to attend committee meetings and prayer meetings  at 
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the call of  the  church.   This  winter will  probably be
remembered for a long time as the winter of the great snow-
sturm.  The Thursday evening before the snow-storm Dea-
con Paine was with us, and the  thought entered the mind
of some who then heard his prayer, that he talked with God
as one nearer to Him  than men  often get till very near the
close of life.   His habit to attend the  prayer meetings was
well known by the whole community.   One evening, some
time ago, a foreigner, who might not be supposed to know
our customs, called  at his office,  and when told that the
Doctor was  at meeting  replied,  "Oh, yes, it  is Thursday
evening, isn't it?"  Why should we  not  thank God for a
man whose life spoke  so decidedly for the cause we love?
   How many there are to-day,  both here and elsewhere,
who remember him  as a teacher in the Sabbath  school.
And  how   has  his   instruction  verified the thought  to
which attention  has  been called,  that fervent piety  pre-
pares  the mind to receive truth that it may be imparted to
others.   There  is  a saying, "If you  haven't  a virtue
assume one."  A great deal of virtue is merely assumed.
Like the holy tones of some religious services, it is put on
for the occasion.   But the virtues and graces of our departed
brother were not put  on,  they came out from  within.
They  impressed  us, and the hiding of their power  was in
the fact that they impressed us,  as  sincere.   "His was a
noble   life,  well  filled with  usefulness," and  does  not it
appeal to the young  men who  have  grown up  under its
shadow to imitate it ?  Interests may engage your attention 
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at present unworthy of your  manhood.  To follow them is
moral  suicide, but how  grand to copy such a one success-
fully as you have been privileged to know.   Will you not
hear him to-day, being dead  yet speak,  "Be ye  imitators
together of me and mark them who so walk even as ye have
us for an example, for our citizenship is in heaven,  from
whence also we wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,
who shall fashion anew  our vile body that it may be like
unto His glorious  body ? "
  And shall we not thank God to-day,  not only for what he
was naturally, and what he was by grace,  but also for the
divine goodness in ending  his  life here  so  nearly  like a
translation.   It  was occasion of solicitude to his  wife lest
his  last days should be of severe  suffering.   She dreaded
the  hour.   But in His goodness God called her first that
the  sorrow of a husbajidV sick?fle^'"^d  death should not
afflict her.   And when his hour came, n&t  only were lov-
ing  ones at hand to minister unto him, bjji a short painless
sickness relieved  the  barren jOf^ftgsvfr' And he  was  not,
for God took him.  What could be more desirable !

             So glide my life away! and so at last
             My share of duties decently fulfilled,
             May some disease not tardy to perform
             Its destined office, yet with gentle stroke
             Dismiss me weary to the home above,
             Where night, death, age, care, pain and sorrow cease. 
 
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