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 parents can seldom think of, but with the greatest reluctance. To see all their fond hopes blasted; the pairs they have been at in rearing the tender thought; in teaching the young idea how to shoot, in pouring fresh instructions o'er the tender mind, and in instilling into it the principles of piety, benevolence and temperance; say, to have all their flattering and laudable expectations cut off for ever, is truly pitiable.

in the present instance we are told, that the dead person was the only son of his mother, which rendered her an object of greater commiseration.—The grief for the loss of children, is often alleviated by the reflection that there are some left behind, or others not improbably expected to succeed in the room of those that are taken from us. But in this case there was no remnant left, to mitigate or to supply the loss of this disconsolate mothers and what heightens this climax of distress, is St. Luke's informing us, that she was a Widow. A state this of all others the most endless and forlorn, and