The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-11-27 00:00:00

W EYMOUTTL

InonnitAßT AND RoYAL IFYI .—Sermons
in not of this noble charity were preached at Trinity
Church on fluuday week, and .£l4 Se. 104. was col.
lewd-

TIIICATRIC• I. —On TI10111&& & 11001100 for
▪ months was granted by the borough magistrates
so Mr W. R. P. Jeffery, stage manager of the sth
p.g V Am tour Dramatic &wish. —Tbe =Perin-
{ember. in answer to Mr. Gran, laid the perform.
once. lied al wayy been conducted in a very satisfactory
gaseliers—The Mayor hirmoureusly said be could not
object SS he virus a season tiokst-holder.

I SICIIViITY or OXVORD.—F. W. Canton, of
Weymou'..h, has received five beautifully bound
.ftlumer. of Plutaroll'e Life, having passed in the
Arevir,sision the senior examination at Southampton
in . English History, Literature and Geography;
It, Latin, French, and German. Divieions—first,
motion B, voond of the general lint. He was lint
in all England in French and German last year for
Tunbridge, and the roar preceding for Oxford be
was also first. He bae received thirty prima.

A Sine og Finn—On, half of the crew of the
barque Rairendalo were brought into Portland Roads
on Monday week by the screw steamer Alice, of
Gratiannouth. The Itseendale, having a cargo of
eeparto Grass on hoard from Agulhae for Newcastle.
took fire on Use 16th in the Bay of Biscay, sod bunt
a, fiercely that two h.,ure after the crew, 11 in
Dimmer were compelled to abandon bee in two boats,
one of which was picked up by the Alice. The fate
el the other haat is at present unknown. Mr.
Damns, moot to the Shipwrecked Mariners Society,
r hewed and forwarded the distressed men to their
doitination.

ACONAVATED AINIANLT ON TUN POLICL—Two
named Orogen and Ricketts, belonging to
the Gipsy whonner, of Southampton, for Limon), in
were charged with selaulting the adios, in
adaition to drunkenness. They were sees by P.C.,.
Martin cud Gale at Caatleton the preceding evening
in a state aintosication, offering to fight any nee
in the Wood. Au attempt to strike a captain Wed,
and then tbm pitched into the police, striking,
oulheA lair. and tripping them up, being a portion
movements. The stereotyped plea "drunk
sad do r„,t knwsr what 1 warnabout," was_ respecavelv
—Fined .f 5 each ore month's bard labour.

Mrsicir 01. ilirrme. —The election of • council-
lor to fir the vacancy cared by the decease of Mr.
11.11 to..k place on Tuesday. There were two cendi-
fates, Mr. J. Maunders and Mr. Stephen Brown.
NO Of three squills WOIII in circulatioo, but the gist
of them appeared to be that the supporters Of. Mr.
Broen looked upon Mr. Meanders as the nominee
of the " compact, which among a certain section
appeire to be very obnoxious. There was a great
deal of excitement, and • livue number of burgesses
eternised their privilege. There was a great deal of
hilarity in the proceedings, and many a merry bur.
cies who had. ea he thought, made the British
Constitution rfe by recording hia vole for his
favourite candidate. and rushed to the nearest bar,
felt the effect next morning of that potent liquor in
: the maoufacture of which malt and hope are used.
At roar o'clock the hall was filled in the expectance
of hearing the result of the poll from J. A yling, Esq.,
whe officiated for the Ward Aldermen, Mr. Milledge,
absent through the death of his brother. The
burgesses seemed to think they had • right to cell
upon him to declare the poll that evening, but seeing
that it was • close contest, be postponed it toll the
following (Wednesday) morning at eleven. An
Alderman is not bound publicly to declare the poll ;
he can ewe the numbers in writing, and affix the
r..turn to the doors of the Guildhall. On Wednesday,
Mr. Stephen Brown was declared duly elected to fill '
the extraordinary vacancy.
Tug A LI.NORD THirr fn. A PIPIL —Jamas Amery, a
soblier of the Nth regiment, was again brought up
before the Mayne en Tuesday, charged with
stealing • meerschaum pipe from the Castle Inn.
Jane Lacy, the servant at the Castle was
She spoke to prissier searching various rooms in
the house under the pretence of looking for his
stick, but she remarked he had broken it up he
fore he went to bed. She merely gooks to the
prisoner sleeping there, the pipe being safe after
two other soldier refr4ed too bad left, and to its
being mired directly after the prisoner quitted the
premiere. The Superintendent said he had no addl.
tionel evidence to offer rave the evidence of the con-
stable who spoke to the apprehension of the prisoner
at the Carl. lan, on Sonde, afternoon, bet to find-
ing no pipe upon him.— Mrs. Beane, re-called, said
the prisoner returned to the house about one o'clock.
very drunk --Prisoner pleaded "Not Guilty," and
said he "see er seed no meerschaum at all." It was
the first ti me that be had ever been awned of
theft —Tim Mayor said the. Bench were of opinion
that titer e was not sufficient evidence to convict
if he was sent for trial, but he had had a very I
narrow escape. The absence of any one belonginc
to the regiment to speak as to his character did
not t ell in hie favour. lie had • narrow escape
•Ild hoped he would take warning from it.

FORTERII TILLING. —Coastance Whitfield, devoid
of bonnet, living in East-street, was brought before
the Borough Magistrates on Tuesday charged with
fortune telling. It would appear that two girls
named Latty and Hunt went to prisoner's hones on
ith Bayern Cr, and the prisoner, producing cards,
told Hunt that .he must be on her guard against a
man under Government, especially all he would
endeavour, by means of • letter and • present, seek
to gain her. Rhe further said that Lefty had a dark
man in the "Navy Government" who need sharp.
r tired tools, in abort, she was not more a nsolatory
in respect to Hunt's future than the sorceress at old,
who is made to tell a misguided girl who visits the
hag at midnight in the camp:—

"Lay throw bask thy raven hair,
llAy thy bra. in the ennonlieht bare.
1111 nett no the eters and rn look no thee,
II tul I'll read the pare el thy deetiny.
1 ens give thee bet dark revealing*
Cat everted hope. in d 1514hte4 feelinp.
01 love that nu% like the dividing wave,
(We broken heart and an early 'MIL*

For the valusble informatinn imputed (which Hunt,
to • certsin extent, treated as a lark, bemuse she
admitted she laughed ell the while it wag being told
Hunt gave Mrs. Litchfield 10d. Last Monday
evening they paid bar another visit, and the fortune
wee still to be the mime. There being no change in
'the programme of events, Hunt only rewarded the
lusty feminine Zsdkiel with two oranges, There be
only one step, we are told, from the sublime to
the ridiculous, so the jump from 10d. to the
two oranges was made. According to the
Superintendent's evident's, this divination has
been carried on by Um. Litchfield for three
yearn, and though cautioned, she lots not listened.
We blushed to hear it from the Superintendent that
the daughters rif leading tradesmen in the town were,
after dark, to be wen going into Mrs. Litchfielel'a.
He dercrihed It sea regular den, and the witness
Hunt said when she was there, eight or nine women
came in. one of them a young widow. -In defence
prienner adverted to the misery and desolation which
bad bees brought upon her by her husband, by hi•
gambling habit., and that he had gambled net out
of two houses. Site further remarked that the
Spanish ladies indulged in fortune telling, and that
she first commented it by already suggesting when,
as she was in distress, that it were to be the means
of getting an honest penny. She never asked for
anything, and when she bad firing and food in
the house she would not accept anything. Her
&trine was to those who consulted her the mine
as given to her daughter, whom she wished to
bring op once and virtnnus - keep from drink, do
not go • journey with • !Amager, and do not walk
unlm• in the town. Pee husband had gambled
away £loo.ooo,and No. 2 York-buildings was bought
for her when a baby. She annealed to the Bench
for mercy,nromising to offend again --The Supt.
raid the prisoner had been convicted of drunkenness
and of felony. —The Mayor said the Beech concurred
in believing that the offence had been fully proved,
and aentenoed bee to two months' bard labour. —The
Superintendent end it had been called to his rectal.
lection by Sergeant Brine that when living in
Ailelaidmplites she hid been cautioned as to her
prectices.—The Mayor said he would not then make
any alteration in the punishment, het if they had
known it before they might have felt disposed to
increase it —As she less leaving the Court she
turned to the witness Hunt, and told her to tell her
aunt that she hoped the Lord wnedd forgive her (the
aunt). We gather front this that the aunt had
been inetrunental in putting the law in motion.

UNRRA!. ORATION Al ALL 800Lfr LODGE.
We have now been favoured by oar worthy
brother Jamb with the teat of the touching oration
delivered by him in honor of the memory of the
Brother William J. Hill :

The eolegnmiti.e ••• have lately been rnenged
following to the the remains ofi Brother highly
esteemed amongst Ilk naturally ler eleren to Ger derpent thoughts, ehd theme tr Ger Improvement 'Arias
'Woe aid ksoviedis.

Freemasonry, whether we topsider it in its Divine
principles or its hietorieal reminiestmees of the early
qv., when the Divine Being voseirmied to communieste
personally an I by Ma prophets and holy men, called for
the purpose with Ilia favoured people; if any benefit to
roniely can arise f roln the • tessinn •nd piseticol eieriner
thaw princip!es which tend to invily the mind and
resells* its affections end the desire. of th, heart, which
tied to unite man with his brother man every peril
the wadi in the closest ties ol brotlunly lobe and in
the charities of Id. . it will always euntinna, as it ever
hae been. • subject worthy of our bust and earnest
attention.

Mere followed sown masonic illootrations of • moral
and intelieetniii mature, introductory io the principal
•uliji.ct of the evening). He then proceeded: Such are
.ome of the aulij,cts Freeninoonry lays Wore cis for our
instruction. There io scoreely any condition or circum-
stances in which we may be placed, bat Morse principles
=ill he found beneficial (or our guidiuus and bort
ieleasibis
Tunes and season• and the daily occurrences of life
roll on inn • ceaseless course ; we scarcely !trip to inquire
or to contemplate the final lane; prosperity and happ
nee engage the affeetions of the heart ; alillction and
trials bow down the mind in morrow and disqsietede ;
yet we accept it as from the common storehouse of
nature, or the general dealings of Divine Providenee
toward. hia creatures, and .11 appear to he right; but
when that awful decree prenonoud at the fall of ma.
" Dart thou art, and unto dust shall the. return," finds
its way monist thou we love and esteem, and a
vacancy appears ie our ranks. We are startled for.
moment at the call it is • voice to the living...mere and
4,lr...reties. vet 101 l of Inercy and loving kinds'..,
".IPrepare Mali thy Oed."
In May be infant Innocence, which stayed bat a brief
period only sufficient to behold the light al day and
enjoy the strengthening ineurnoe of sleep, vet unwilling
to taste either the pleasure. or the trials of life, withdrew
into oblivion ogain. Or the ued Who baying outlived
the term allotted to man, be. peen waiting like the
visitor about to return into a far country, for the oon•
veyano• to conduct him to hiri native home. But that
*lsiah sometime, call forth from no a inner poignant
um., and unscathiring regard, me, be of on• in early
youth, where friends had looked forward with anxious
oolirltude to tee him become an ornament to society,
just like a plant we have tenderly reared. delicate and
transparent, without mot or stain from the chilling
blasta of the winter frost or the tempest', troll, or the
foul tramp of Rome venomous insect alighting thereon,
its flower with a concentration of colour more beautiful
than at any advarieed period opening Into bloom;
-ome insect has brooded within, and just an
it petals are expanding and it becomes an object
of admiration, and we look forward to the
gratification of It. continuance wannest
which a wise Providenoe, in in, ordering of nature had
designed for our enjoyment and pleasure, i' droop. and
withere and we are humbled And brought low by its
untimely death. Or again, of another who had safely
named the day. of hio youth, and just entered the prime
ales, with all the vivacity and strength of manheod,
surrounded by the offoreing of his affection., looking
forward toe long eerie. of years of earthly pleasures Ana
sesoest, length of days appear on the one hand, richer
and honour on the other, with • faithful companion is
hi, joys, and a shorer as well as sonsolation in his
hours of trial and ; for him also the awful fiat
hen been decreed, sat by au untimely fate he sinks into
the tomb; bat to .'beet him at his departure • kind and
gentle voice edgier, in hi. hear: "Leave thy fatherless
children and I will preserve them, and let thy widow
tr..t in ine."—Tn no she this meusge has been sent,
and we are now assemble'! together in this sacred
l'emple, to mourn the In,. of • Brother highly esteemed
and beloved amongst us.
In his boyhood and youth his sountenanee wa• ever
radiant with goodness, with joy and delicht ; in his
manhood the some cheerfnlneso and bappinem of dim
nooition were manifested wherever he went; dionleunre
or gloom found no place on hi. brow, esceot when
excited upon a subject where the rulers of jwiticre or
honour were I. 'lancer of twine infringed upon. He was
faithful to time who entrusted him with their rioncerns;
courteous to thou who were brought in opposition in
his prolesolonal raga ermines; oririFht and honourable in
his • hole character; society In which he was known will
for some time mourn his loss.

Should a thought be entertained, or a strict opinion
venter,, iteelf is reflections on his being called away at
so early an age—in the midst of business and the
Pleasure+ of a happy life, withoet scaroely • brief period
ho consider his ways and make his peace with God, we
may well mit who implanted such capacities for hap-
piness in our nature, and for what purpose were they
intended? but that being happy ourselves, we may
yndeavour to csnninnicate that happiness to others.
We have indeed a well.grounded hope of Ma favourable
secepteme at the throne of the Moe High. At his
first reception into the Chrietian fold, the prayer of
faith was Mari at the throne of grace in his behalf, the
hand of Divine mercy 1•11.4 atretched forth and took him
'nto the ark of God's everlasting love. and being "stead-
fast in faith," he was preserved amidst the turgid and
tempestuous " waves of a troublesome world."
At the first creation man was formed psefect and
upright, for it was God's workmanship. He was placed in
the garden of E.l.n to till it and draped for his amusement
and pleasure ; the fruit of the trees were ordained as
pleasant and mineable food to his taste : the Diving
Being cendeseended to visit him and commune with
him; traces of the Divine goodness may be seen in the
life of many even at the present day; bat man fell
from his original righteousnere; acid where the brow is
darkened by the working of the mind in selfishness,
hatred, malice and revenge, where pride avarice,
ambition, and the insatiable desires of power disturb the
beneficient arrangements of the human heart them
all are the bruises and wounds of the fall of roan; they
are among the thorns and thistles which occupy the
ground where the good seed should spring up ; they
continually Impede tic. progress of truth, and render
abortive any attempt to restore lost man to the favour
of his God. On the other hand there are many to be
found in human society amiable, good-tempered, can
raise the jocund laugh, and to all outward appearance,
pleasant @Mined en, and yet notes*, of the Divine good.
nom discovers itself, hemline they acknowledge not the
Divine hand from whence they came, and are regardless
of future eziateres; they live without hope and without
God in the worn ; but (hr brother for whom we now
drop the tear .4 remembrance, cultivated smarten-
tationsly a true and gennine faith, sod is now, we may
hope, in the enjoyment of its reined+ in that paradise
of Got, once loot, but now the habitation of the souls
a the richteous He has left behind him a memorial of '
his faith—of rtirling worth and truth far more enduring
than hems" and lands or riches and honour. A tower
Bad( above his sacred ashes, like a polished column
towards heaven, or like • golden vessel of perfume,
costly and precise, prepared by his own hand and pre-
Nerved to peter forth over bine at his buriaL I will now
give you an extract or two—
Jadre not that God I. harsh with man,
Month fault but one, His kindled wrath was just,
Nor was sweet mercy in the heavenly breast
Suppressed:
He looked down
Upon him fallen; saw, pitied, forgave.
Death came
By One—by One life sprang anew. Rejoice
With grateful love, de.pairing, sunken man •
When man with trumpet sound, o'er melodad
Hy angels' hirsute, melodiously sweet
Re-enter shall the glorious, I' a once
Lost wade., • sinner saved, a saint
Regenerate—washed clean by blood;
Here see, behove fulness
Of prayer to, and faith in him who shed
That salving ; though sins be soesiet dye
His blood shall white them all, white to redeem;

Therefore ye
A soul with miod and thought to profound, an rich In
faith, firm in hope, when the lett solemn hour arrives,
as he is inietly waiting to be undrseeed for immortality,
assuredly baton. with earneat arid affectionate longing
to catch the brat note of that gracious and merciful
Incitation, "Coma ye blessed of my Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the
world."

Let us consider further, what most have been the
effect when the ennouncoment was made to him that no
hope of life remained, and but a few short hour" before
him ; a crowd of thoughts at once rushing upon hit mind
at heirs/ this@ suddenly summoned to eurrender life just
scarcely begun, the comfort, hapniness, and ;leasers, of '
his earthly home, and all that was dear to him,
the numerous arrangements neoessery for the welfare
of those he was to soon to leave behind him, with an '
inteniity of pain from 'offerings which caused • dieisolu-
Von of nature; and them the dark and eold grave to
which he was hastening, and the unknown state of
esistence beyond it, must all have been enaleient to
weigh him down in the deepest sorrow and affliction ;
but mercy and tram from the throne of the Eternal shed
their benign infloonoe around his dying pillow. and hislast
partinc breath of 'arrow was ax@hanced for the ern of
eternal joy. This faith, expressed by him in such simple,
truthful Unguarre, we. a Patina Principle gUitaiell6
and strengthened by Divine grace in the heart—it is that
faith which juidiess anti Nerves, it is in troth the faith
of Oncl's pleat ; and it is refreshing to And with what
tsith and hope he was sustained in his last momenta—
what joy and peace in believing. It yield., indeed, a
melancholy yet pleasurable satisfaction in contemplatinz
the subject—that notwithatending the throng and crowd
of earthly things, of earthly pleasures and of hopes, as
well in his lent and only sorrow be ever knew, he was
enabled to press through them all, and th us to take
hold the hem of his Marione' garment as it were, and
like the malt of a similar faith mentioned in the gamed
writinp, theism. Divine and benevolent look was oast
upon him, the some gracious and encouraging reply was
given, "The faith bath eared thee, pin pews. " and his
spirit fled to that God who gave it. Who can imagine
the delights of the soul eurrounded now with guardian
ample, winging their way through the celestial repose
to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jentealem ;
while voices meet as the Seraphim before the throne of
the Eternal, carol forth the tong of joy, "Lift up your
heads 0 ye gate., and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors
that an heir of glory may come In."
Death is a solemn subject to contemplate; It is an
awful reality through touch we must •11 pees.—To put
off the consideration of it to a more eonvenient mamas will
not stay the hand or mitigate the taroks. The Patriarehe
and Prophet. —.risen, are they now King. Emperors
and the Rulers of the world—the Stateenten,
the Senator, the Philosopher, the learned and th
ignorant, the young and the old, the grunt and the gay,
hare all in their tern, from their towering ambition, or
in expectant faith and humility, snocumbed to Its re-
lentless law. If we make it • subject of our daily
thoughts—if we torn now and then to the grave, and
look at the bed where we shall soon take our repose, it
will remove much of am horror and dread of deeth—it is
an awful and a Divine necessity. If all the generations
of man that have existed from the dint creation were
still alive, what confusion and misery would be the
result, from the ferocious disposition of theme who had
nothing beyond the light of • fallen *nature for their
guide, to whom the Divine rev...Wiens were unknown,
as sell as from these who haste despised and reignited
them—even at the very first contosencement of human
society, Cain rose up and slew his brother AbeL
At the find creation when Adam fell, the very Pound
was cursed for his sake—"ln OoTTOW shall thee eat of
it all** dip of thy life," waa the Divine sentenee, "for
out slit mast thou taken—for dust time ark and ante
dart shalt thous return." There wee so curie upon this
deg, for it had been tikes out of the earth before the
cane wee meowed, and this OM contained within
te We a Dm., pdasipie of l. ; tat lives the breath

of God 'birth animated it. This dot' of man therefore
returning to the earth spin, will still be precious in the
sight of God—hence Wien* instilled into the heart of
man to reverence and sari for the remains of those depo.
cited in the grail's,. Thus became the and Adam a living
*eel. Bet ere head also of a second Adam, oorn from
h iithen • quickening spirit ; and as by the invigorating
filaueno Bof the great Ina leery of dey, nature rises
forth and hod, and we enjoy thoo bionic(' the (ruin
of the earth; an this quickening Spirit. all those who are
born in Hon by faith, and live through him, he eldne•
upon their affections, and they break forth into heavenly
graces and produce attendant !rune of righteousness,
and of peace—their dust, thereforedseanctilied and very
precious in the sight of God. Mere were Prime rearm-
lima of • Mamie character on the object.) He
then coh•inued :—(lf Death we can offer no better
idea thin that of the course of nature. TN, sun
rune its daily roars° in its strength, and as
it draws near to its cloth. its effulgence diminishes
tad its light becomes mellowed and soft and as
it sinks below cur hi.rison. • thleum gloom and gill.
00.0 creeps over the face of natures and pervade* ever
where as in the hush around the dying bed. The bill,,
and the valleys grnw dark awl become wrapt In the
quiet and rot of nig'it ea of death ; the stags appear as
the witneeses of God's truth ; the moon sheds her
softened and reflected light, self it would remind us of
God's watchful and protecting ears of the souls of the
righteous, and his Divine presence with them while their
bodies sleep in lb( vise., This emblem of death, in
the rest of inanimate nature is also boltifully pour.
trayed in active life :childhood for instance, when tired
down with Snowless activity, has no very anxious
desire at night to resign its pleasures and the society
of its friends, and retire into darkness and • state of
mieonicirmimess; but the law of nai ore is nn imperative
that even childhood muse 'alma, and that which aeon-
e it to its fate is the assuranes that as aillectionat
Parent is watching over its pillow' and it sleeps in peso.
In the morels, the sun comes forth, the ladle
creature arios not only ref robed, but renewed
with strength. So in the morning of the resurrection
of the jest at the last day, when the night of death shall
hays passed away, the Son of Rightemaness will arise
with glory and megnlacenoe indsecrihable, and with ell
powerful 'healing in his wings, the dry bones of humanity
will collect together, the dust of those prodous in the night
of Him who died for tin m will be reaniniatei
and clothed upon with immortality. Then will the... re-
mains we have so lately laid in the dark tomb arise for
the joys of eternity ; that which we have now owe in
corruptints will be raised in inoorrtiption; that which we
hare DOW SOWII in dishonour will be raised in glory ;
that which we have now own in weaklier will be raised
in pawn: that which we have DOW sown a natural body '
will he raithd a spiritual body. There is stature' body
and there is a spritsail body.
That this our m-rtal pert is capable of a change in
Immortality to one of heavenly glory, we have • very
clear intimation. When 110.0, went up into the mount
and reeeind the tables of the law, while in communion
with the Divine Being, he received an impress of the
divine glory, and on coming down from the mount his
countenance aboos .0 bright that the people could not
eteadlotly behold him, sod he was obliged to *over his
face with s veil, which he wore for some time. When
the Saviour of mankind went up into the mount with
his disciples, he was then in a state of humility (man
with nal; he was transfigured before them, sod became
glidieninit and brilliant as the sun at noon day. At the
resurrection the two witnesees who related the eircumi
stance to the holy woman appeared with countenances
like lightening. mad their garments white, such that no
faller could white them. Whether they wers celestial
spirits created to attired upon and execute the high
behest of beams. who had newer been clogged with
humanity, or of the spirits of the just made perfeet,does
not appear, but that they were of human form appears
clearly. Thu. will mortality he swallowed up of life.—
'Blessed, then, are the dead which die in the Lord."
And now, my brethren, what do we learn in Masonry
that will lead =in that path which will bring on to Wm
living fountain of joy and happiness—this gloriied state
of immortality, to Him who will not deceive us, neither
will He suffer deception. (Here • solemn arid very
affecting appeal was spin made in • masonic sense upon
the tubject). He then proceeded:
That great light we pounas in Masonry is a Divine
light—it is a light from above—which will enahly as to
lift this mysterious veil and look beyond the darknsu
and gloom of the grave. It opens to our andentandino
God's omnipotent power, holinsea and truth.—it tells Of
His mysterious dotage with the creatures of His hands;
it speaks to us of His Divine promise., both of the If.
that DOW is and of that which is to cone; it stands
forth a. • boom light to guide us safely through the
shoals and diffieulties of life; it stands as • light and
guide to eternity. Philoeopy cannot raise this
mysterious veil, for she is indebted herself to ita Divine
wielorn for the chafed of her apophthegms. Season,
with her weak and uncertain light. eau never guide on to
such sublime mysteries, such glorious truths as we and
there--ecience which enables us to make wondrous
discoveries in nature, to measure the heights of
its pillar, down to the flatness of its
pedestal carnet unfold to us eternity or the
mysterious dealings towards His people of that
God in whom we live and move and have our being.
Nature, which instructs no in lemons of God's creating
and prawns* power—which sets before us many
instructive patterns for our imitation in Faith, in Hope,
and those beautiful Charities of social life upon which
angels deign ti smile, .he may lead us to the threshold,
but °moot °lvo to our view the mysteries of eternity.
the joys of everlasting life, or the miseries of eternel
death. But having now dieenvered those mysteries in
the treasures of God's revealed will, let us therefore
praise and magnify His Holy Name for that knowledge
of Himself +bleb He has been pleased to voechofe
unto us, and endeavour to walk worthy I thet light
which bas now shone around us—that we, with all those
who have departed this life in the tine faith and fear of
that holy sed incommunicable name, may have our
consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in that
eternal and everlasting kingdom, where the world's
great Architect lives and reigns, and will when time
shall be no more.