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few days before her death. Thus the kind of terrors is making rapid and sure progress everywhere - young and old, the Gay and thoughtless, and the Christian waiting submissively the summons are alike his prey.

   And how strange, how passing strange that the living had so little the warnings so constantly occurring. A kind father sees our worldliness and note our wanderings, and if common providences fail, to lead us to himself, he sends his minister of death into the circle of our acquaintance and removes one, who has mingled often with us, to the scenes of another being. If our hearts are so hardened that this warning passes without leading us to himself he comes still nearer and takes? from our fond embrace. Some dearly loved relative leaves us to mourn their loss. O should we not acknowledge our father's hand in all our sorrows and feel that not one is in vain - and how should it humble us to think that we need so much to lead us away from earth to God.