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 sorrow, now once again sustained through adversity, may we endure from age to age and grow larger from generation to generation! €an it be that all this investment of truth and love and holiness, so abundant and promising, will all be rung out of existence? Ah, no; truth is triumphant; love is eternal; virtue is immortal; and' goodness is never to be exhausted. We feel that sorrow has darkened our prospect and that we toiled together in vain as co-workers and as brethren. But, O Lord, as deep as ai’B the associations, so inspiring are the suggestions. Thou art eternal. We are Thy children. We will be everlastingly glorifying Thee here and hereafter. May we be sustained with this hope!

We are brought here this evening to discharge a duty which various feelings enjoin on us-the melancholy duty of lamenting a heavy loss, the pious duty of cherishing a dear memory and also the loving duty of saying ‘adieu’ and yet ‘welcome'. To me, who have had the privilege of knowing the dear friend under hallowed associations,