Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-08-02

thanktuIness too, for the sake of all our
wounded feelings, and especially of theirs
VINO weep in them the abrupt and painful
departure of the dearest earthly relatives,
and their graves are not divided; that
they are here on land, accessible, defined,
unVIoIated | desire thus publicly to
thank Almighty God, for the mercy of
ms providence, in such a concession to
many feelings and 10 many prayers. The
waters gave up their dead, at his bidding;
and we have been privileged, in large and
long procession, to follow those four
corpses almost simultaneously, to the field
OF graves; and TO witness, with awful
pleasure, the obsequies and the decencies
of Christian burial performed. would
express also the gratitude Of many, for
the kind attentions aud sympathits and
services Of this whole community. The
labor performeAin a severe and protracted
effort, Of more than a week, almost in
vain and desperate at times, to recover the
buried corpses from their tomb of waters;
the aSsiduity, the skill, the cost, the self
denial, the perseverance, and the multi
tudcs that were engaged in it; have won
our admiration and deserved our praise.
This was indeed humanity to the living
and the dead. 1t may be spoken to the
praise of the public sentiment of this large
vicinity. 1t deserves indeed more than
thanks, especially in some instances. The
Professors and the Students of the Semi
nary would unite in the tribute of their
gratitude; and am especially charged
to express the deep felt thankfuIness of
present mourners, on this occasion, to all
Of you, my dear hearers, for the one heart,
and the one mind, and the one hand, of
kind offices, which they deem themselves
10 have received from you, in this season
of their severe calamity and grief |
alIude, alas! less at present to all the wide
spread circle of bereavement than to two
brothers in affection before me, whom
common grief has lately assimiIated, from
strangers, to companions and friends,
standing here together at the double grave,
in which their own brothers respectively
are about to be covered with kindred ashes
till the morning of the resurrection of
the just" Their gratitude commands my
utterance: while our sense of their broth
erly examples, as fellow laborers in the
toll which IS at last successful, authorizes
also this tributary acknowledgement, Of
our esteem as we'll as sympathy. For
other relations far distant, and mourners
that must feel privation additional in
their absence from these funeral solemn
ties, what shall we say2 Especially for
parents, and brothers and sisters, aud other
kindred, dear and tender; and above all,
| ho n ho
Loneliness Of grief, in which no sorrow
seems like her sorrow, which is done
unto her; wherewith the Lord hath af-
, flicted her, in the day of his fierce anger"
Let them know that theirs is participated
in the grief OF thousands: and let them
remember that ave have not an High
Priest who cannot be touched with feel
ing of our infrmities;'' who cannot be
, afflicted in our affections; who caunot
know fellow feeling in ali our gricfs
But why do yield to the mere impulse
of tears? Christianity comes to the grave
of the pious, to hold her most pompous
, celebrations, Christianity trumphs where
| other honors die; where laurels wilher,
} and monuments moulder, and glories fade.
f 1t is here that the world grows din, and
J all the spIendor and the treachery of its
. promises appear. What a leveler, and
$ what reveler is death! But our immor-
= tai inheritance he cannot touch Here
: the dark cloud begins TO scatter before the
t beamsof truth. The bow Of promise is
D pointed on its retiring gloom. 1--WE sor-
? row not as those who have no hope."-
! The place is sacred for 1t is near the
: graves of Christians that we stand. "For
!. if we believe that Jesus died and rose
I, again, even so them also that sleep in
y Jesus shall God bring with him" Let
q US think of the morning of the resurrec-
: ton, when "this mortal shall put on i'm
IF mortality" -
Y See truth, love, and mercy in triumph descending
:, And nature all glowing in Eden's first bloom,
,, On the pale cheek of death smiles and roses are
H blending,
And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
IS We have calm and definite hope, for
3, the four sleepers in this common bed, that
= their conscious spirits are in glory, We
: have good reason to think, as we have not
l. lately begun to do, that they loved God
that they obeyed the gospel of our Lord
81 and Savior, Jesus Christ; that they were
}, men of prayer, humility, spirituality, and
d solemn devotement to God; and that, as
IT such, they desired that office, with its
"good work." for which they were pros
Y pectively 10 training. when the signal
c, Come up hither, was suddenly made them
IS from a door opened in heaUen. Nor Is II
= very wonderful, or very uncommon FOL
in God to use the ministry to prepare IL
Of subjects themselves, rather than Others fo'
ID glory. So did he, we infer, in the case
SPENCER, who, younger than any o
1e these. found waterY grave in the Mersey