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 orning, as the signal of placid feelings towards his God, and his assembled neighbours, does not hear their weekly monotony with devotion ? And who is there that has performed the last rites of friendship, or the melancholy duties of son, daughter, husband, wife, father, mother, sister, under the recurring tones of the awful tenor, or more awful dumb peal, and does not feel at every repetition of the same ceremony, a revival of his keen but unavailing regrets for the mouldering dead?