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Rh of the most beautiful modern edifices in England, did not forget to bestow his care also upon the "acre" dedicated to God, and destined as a resting-place for His people.

There are also many beautiful and touching Epitaphs in our own English tongue;—some in the simple language of our forefathers, written on mouldering and mossy grave-stones of bygone centuries, and some by eminent divines of our own time, less known, but not less beautiful.

Who that has visited the Lady-chapel of Worcester Cathedral, does not remember the small tablet to the wife of the famous Izaak Walton?—

In Claverton Church is a Latin inscription, which, from its simplicity, well deserves the English translation, which is already well-known:—

"In the hope of a blessed resurrection, here the body (formerly the abode of a most holy mind) of a young