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 alas! there is little consolation in any of them. Some of them are positively terrible to contemplate; while others are so indistinct, as not to fall, with any certainty, into human thought. It is, therefore, to assist in removing these distressing feelings of bereaved parents, that we have penned the following pages.

We will begin where the parent begins to feel her loss, namely death. What is death? Some imagine that it is impossible for a living being to answer this question; for it is supposed that death can only be known in dying. But what is revelation for? Are there no facts recorded there, from which our reasons may draw conclusions and satisfactory evidence on such a subject? We think there are; and therefore, though we may not have experienced death and its consequences ourselves, there are others who have, and God has recorded their experience in His Word, which amply compensates for our own deficiency. It is manifestly one of the principal uses of Scripture to enlighten men on such subjects as they cannot themselves possibly experience in this life.

We therefore turn to the Word, and seek in it that experience which man does not possess. The first thing which the Scriptures demonstrate is, the existence of two worlds, the world of matter and