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deeply impressed with the truths of the christian re-
glon He also added regret that he had no, before
made apubic profession of his faith in Christ The
teV. Dr. liawley, one OF the Pastors in the city of
washington, says u have preached To four Prcsl-
dents, but General Harrison is the frs, President of
we hted states whom have ever seen worshpplng
God upon his knees
Whun rulers thus feel aud acknowledge their ale
giahce to God and their religious obligations, We have
ittnS oi safety, hope ot security to the public m
tercss, which all the talents and experience in this
world can not inspire while they hold in contempt
the Son of God and his authority and law. While
we contemplate in tho late Chief Magistrate, these
finishing qualities If o SAFE AND ABLE STATESMAN,
we feel yet more deeply cur oss. But that piety
which fitted him TO ADMINISTER the affairs Of govern
cnt, in the fear of Cod also fitted him for his last
change. Under assus.aiangp power lie took leave Of
his family, and comtortcd them with the hope that lie
could de as christian. 1t was solemn scene.
Tears leI from eyes that seldom weep. He d5d like
CHRISTIAN statesman. His last words were for his
country, his last hopes were in his God and Savior
When he had gained all that earth and man and
grace could give Death seized him upon the summit
OF huin'n greatness, and it was said of King
George the IT, 50 1t may he said of General Harrison
iHe crening IF his iJc lrds tie Gseri$ias u his
glory
Death loves shining mark, afsgnal blow,
AbloW, which, while 1t executes, alarms
And stdrticS THOUSANDS with single fall
As when some stately growth Of oak or pine,
Which nods aoit and proudly spreads her shade
Tie sun ; defiance and the ho"ks defence,
by the strong strokes of laborng binds stbdued,
Loud groans her last, and rushing from her height
IN cti,hbrous rum, tllundurs to the ground
The conscious forest trembcs at the shock,
And hull, and stream, and distant dale rcsound.
How mysterious is this Providence. How ncxora
bic IL death! How powell,s ~ human skill ana
human desires to save! And how insufficient por-
ton are all the honors and riches that earth give
IN the hour of DEATH To feel the force of these re-
hccuons, 90 with mel into the sick chamber in the Ex-
ccuye mansion. See the Chief Magistrate Of IA
country as Large as ten such Kingdoms t'ttut BIZ
lh and Ireland Frustrated on the couch of disease
Band now around his brow all the lnurclslir has won
on successive battle fields. They not assuage his
aching temples. Spread around him the badges and
INSIGNIA oi power and of the highest office which his
country can ujve ar his heart desire, these not
calm his thr0Ubing pulse assure huu that the conf
dcnco and affections Of grateful people conferred
On INN ana that Their best hopes founded on his
measures of state policy. THIS does not stay, for "a
non'ht the prcgr: - of disease. Place now IN his
pale nlid trembling hand thu sceptre OF empire he
not cngrr TO sraSpit No, the sc,ptrc fails from that
troubling hand as thing OF no worth. The honors
winch ambition seeks the laurcls won from battle
'cldS, the scepire Of empire and the affections of
enlcer nitlnns of his counirynon not salts
~ nm. lie turns away from them and SAYS, to
his family, his cabinet aud friends. L have long been
deeply impressed with the truths of the christian rci
gion. My hopes are IN NV God and nv Saviour
Such my hearers, wllniallibv be your experience in
the hndr OF your departure. on may be successful
vou may gain all the objects of your present pursuit
hol N9N edo"n on the bed Of death. nh enemy to
the God that n1e YOU YOU will give them all for an
interest in the blood of Christ.
\ second moral lesson which this oven, can not fail
to impress on all hearts il the VANITY Of man apart
from hrs Immortality 1t forces us to a concurrence
III the Election. S1rtiy Htn in his lest c,iaie is al
toati Ter ra"ity, Here that death i, nor only
tn kngoi crrors but the conVieror of conquercrs
II" KNOCKS at the door of the palace with rhe snnc
bcAluc-s aS atthc door Of the cottage lie calls alike
upon the really and tIe mrcady. He falls not only
upon ace III s dcclepltude, but upon manhood in his
srrn9th, upon wamanhood in her lolrlncs and upon