The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1841-10-12
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From the Boston Recorder.
BOT III RIG ii TEO U s

"And they were both righteous before God,
walking in all the ordinances of the Lord blame
less" This may be regarded as an inscription on
the tomb ofthe pious Zachariah and Elizabeth.
I. 1t told the ruth-epitaphs do not always do
this. But God cannot be deceived concerning
character, and cannot lie when he speaks off
and wrote this inscription.
g. 1t is noble epituph 1t places crown of
honor on the heads of the righteous pair. The
highest nobility in the universe derive all their
glory from their righteousness more honorable
thing could not have been said OF this humble
couple than is said in the statement that they
were "both righteous"
3. 1t is an enduring epitaph. sBrass corrodes,
marble crumbles Inscription on either gradu
ally effaced But eighteen hundred years have
gone, and left this inscription as fresh 1t
cannot be efaced. 1t is on the impershable
oIds of the divine government. God wrote it. Ii
stands We shall depart, and monuments
crumble after into dust But this will be read
as if drawn in living characters, throughout all
generations. The last being that lives in this
world will read the opitaph, radiant still with the
same brightness when first recorded by the d-
vine pen.
a. And it is an eritaph for all the aoorld's peru
sal 1t is not confined TO single churchyard, to
be read by the curious of single community
Nations have read IT, and all the nations will yet
do it. AS kingdom after kim dom receives the
word of God, they will find this bright gem upon
its pages. No epitaph of human origin has had or
will have many readers.
All epiaphs not instructive, but here are
most deeply interesting suggestions.
L. This must have been a happy couple. They
both drank at the same fountain of living waters.
They were not divided in respect to sources Of
their enjoyments, each thus furnishing drawback
on the others happiness. They went up TO Mount
Zion togethe They accompanied each other
into the places of the Almighty, and shared
together the fairness of the Lords house, and she
rivers of his pleasure
9. They must have exerted undivided moral
Influence upon their househoid. AS they both
righteous they acted unitedly in favorng righte-
BUSINESS, and fowning upon iniquity. The errine
child pr domestic could not fly from the just rebuke
ofth one, to the ind iferent and justifyIng spirit
of the other. The sun not half cell psed as il
one only had been righteous. Ii poured its full ra
dance in approval or reproof. Their moral infu
ence flowed forth like river, uniting d ifferen
streams. and then ulatng its power.
3. The truth of this epitaph is the assurance tina
this couple united in the r,obier relation.
of heauen. That they walked in all the command
ments of the Lord blameless is the best possbl.
evidence that they now serving God both da,
and night in the eternal temple. This cour se o
life gave them moral fitness for heaven. Deatl
could not disunite such a couple In their mind
were the elements OF an everlasting union. On
might have gone bofcre the other, yet both pos
sessng assimilation Of moral character to the ho
beings above, both must reach the same HON
whenever the silver cord of life was oosed. Tha
husband and wife are in heaven
Reader, it may be soon, perhaps sooner than yo
are aware, that your epitaph will be written. VIVA
shall it be