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 father endured for the death of a on, which wife utained for the los of her huband, and  all thoe minor ties of conanguinity, and  which were, at this unhappy and awful period  generally diolved.

When we conider how very oon the gay and flattering appearances of life are ; how uncertain are our poeions, and  ubject to hopes, and how embittered by, are our puruits; it is omewhat , that we hould be o much  attached  the world, hould entrut the un-fine of our d and without upicion of a change, to every cl hould commit our preent happines to the intlity of climate, to the viciitudes of cold and , to the terrors of the tempet, or the petil dangers of the calm:-it is atonihing, I again , that we hould repoe all our comforts,  all our expectations, upon a world o full of mocation, diappointment, and affliction; when  mut be concious that we mut o oon leave  world and all its empty deluions behind. we look around, and ee people who thought above the reach of want, and reclining, a a long apprenticefhip of patient industry and toil, upon the lap of late-earned and honet repoe; when we ee them  the fruits of exertions thus made, and of  thus enjoyed, in one fatal and detructive  our,—w an awful leon does this reflection awaken in  minds! and how much does it not warn us building upon a foundation o very   bet, and at the bet deceitful! But then to them reduced to this ituation, and truggling  infirmities, without the vigour of youth, or  exertions of manhood—without helter from weather, protection from power, or meat