Year: 1861

Mrs. Eleanor s. Causin.

 lExifaet from Sermon of the Rev. j. T. THsAr D. D1 Who more beloved

 Is left among the living? Who hath walked The world with more winning graciousness, And, through unweared kindness, gathered mn Such treasures of affection? She was loved As goodness only is! She was the stay And comfort of her own familiar sphere; The obliging neighbor and the faithful friend; The sick and suffering poor she ne'er forgot. Nor yet to " entertain the stranger;' for e There was no winter in her bounty; twas

 An Autumn that by reaping grew the more: The best conditioned and unweared spirit In doing courtcsies," beloved of all! All the assurances of Holy Scripture that are most consoling to the bereaved and most commen- datory of the departed, may be confidently rredica ted of her who is now entered into that rest that remaneth for the people of God" Could weave chaplet for the sweet memory of the lamented-not lost, but only gone before sainted and emparadised; a wreath of the unfading verdure and bloom which the eager reverence and affection of her numerous friends have pluck from the fair gardens of Loves Gratitude, of Faith and Resignation and Immortal Hope, how rich and va. l ried would it be! Yes, all have found mementoes | in the wondrous treasury of Gods blessed Book. which they would fondly write upon her tomb.- Entered into rest,' Asleep in Jesus,n Ab- sent from the body, present with the Lord;" "In Thy presence is the fullness of joy, and at Thy right hand are pleasures forevermore." "The glory which had with Thee before the world was, I have given them" "I heard A voice from hea ven saying nnto me, Write, from henceforth blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; even so saith the Spirit; for they rest from their labors" "These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they be- fore the thorne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.''

 Be still, fond heart! what could thy prayer In all the widest ecstacy of hope

 Ask for the loved one like the bliss of heaven!"

 Long life! She is alive forevermore, beyond the reach of sickness or decay. Wealth and hap piness! She hath " inheritance, incorruptible, and undefled and that fadeth not away" instead of earth's feeting and unsatisfying pleasures, she is drinking of the very fountain of bliss You wish ed her blest companionship! She has met the warm welcome of kindred saints and angels. You had hoped to have her sympathy in all the joys and ! sorrows of your future life She is not gone far off to region of forgetfulness. She has not ceased to regard you with distinguishing affection.

 How often have you thought it were so sweet W " ith unseen ministry of angel power. To watch OCT friends we still had left on earth

 ou did not err Our best affections here

 Are not like toys of infancy. The soul Out grows them not. We do not cast them off

 It It were indeed dreadful thing to die!

 Not to the grave, not to the grave, fond heart,

 Follow thy sainted one. Oh, do not doubt sne holds with thee mysterious intercourse;

 Then tho' remembrance make thee weep, in grief, mere Will be compensating joy and hope!

 The unity of the church militant and empara- dised is conscious one They are not severed from us who are gone before, but only out of sight, Nothing is changed but the visible relations of an earthly lfe all the unseen relations of fond attach ment still remain; nay, are knit more closely; for the bereaved have an intenser love, softened and purified by sorrow; and they who are s'delyered from the burden of the fesh' are "with Christ.n " touched with the feeling of our infrmites' They are all united in one energy of spiritual being; all are nourished by the same hidden mama and slake their thirst in the same waters of life, They are one in the unity of Chrst's mystical body; and all their acts of love and adoraton are shared in full py each several member; and, especially, in our Eucharstic Feast does Faith transport us into the society of the bessed and they are more ours than in their earthly life they ever were, or could be. For Faith has wrestled with the fearful doubt of having lost them forever and has prevailed against it, and won them in triumph from the grave never more to lose them. They are ours without change and without possible misunderstanding; {" With them the future cannot contradict the past.' They smile in every smile of pious thankfulness and lift our longing hearts towards heaven.

 In Pocart's "Ceremonies and Religious Gus 1oms;" 1t is stated that the native Brazilians pay great homage to certain bird that sings mourn fully in the night time They say it is messen- ger which their deceased friends and relations have sent from the spirit land to assure them of their loving remembrance. Upon this idea, Mrs He mans has founded one of the most beautiful and touching of her Sougs of the Affectons''

 "Tell us, thou bird of the solemn strain,

 Can those who have loved forget?

 We call-and they answer not again

 Do they lovel Do they love us yet1

 Who does not feel it's pathos2 Where is the heart without responsive chord to this universal plaint of bereavement?

 Upon this point think have shown not only from the passages quoted, but from the general strain of Scripture that this instinctive yearning of our hearts is clear indication of the Divine purposes respecting the future existence of our race We shall know each other and be reunited in bet ter world. It was the firm belief of the deceased. most devoted mother to all her children, there seemed, thought, between her and her eldest son something more than parental fondness on the one part and a piety the other: it was the peculiar friendship and rarer fellowship resulting from the mothers admiration of her gifted son and his manly tenderness and grateful love to her. The severing of such tie-could it be seversd-were death in- deed. The very threatening and semblance of it was stunning and prostratng blow. But never were christian faith and resignation more perfect or more honoring to the grace of the Gospel. Her true mothers heart, jealous of herself, was more tender if possibe of the survivors, lest it should be too much with the treasure so recently augmen- ted in heaven. That strong tie which would have held her painfully to earth had he survived her. was attracting her irresistibly heavenward It was not hard for me to imagine that she saw his beck oning hand across the Jordan of death. To her inner sense, the ear of faith, a voice from the spirit land entreated with sweet persuason Moth- CT, come honle!" and when she closed her eyes in death; and answered not the younger, calling her, may not well believe that-not 6 broken heart ed''--O, no! not "broken -hearted" but ,ohole- hearted, she did answer to the eldest, calling, My son, my son, come to thee!''

 There was lowering of celestial wing

 Around the dying couch, solemn sound Of stricken harps, such as around Gods throne Make music night and day. She might not tell Of that high music; for her lips were sealed

 And her eyes closed. And so ye say-she died;