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Excerpt from Delivered in the Middle Dutch Church in Cedar-Street, N. Y: On Sabbath Evening, June 12th, 1825, on Occasion of the Death of Mrs. Mary Laidlie
There is no 'tie which Death, the great Destroyer, severs for ever upon earth, more endearing in its intimacy - more holy in its nature - more remediless in its dissolution, than that which binds children to an affectionate mother. It is when that loss is felt when the full sensation of the bereavement first comes home to the bosom of the mourner - when the voice that from childhood sound ed so sweetly in the ear, is hushed for ever in the grave - w hen the eye of love is dull, 'and glazed in the stillness of apathy - when the lineaments stamped upon the heart, with all its most hallowed associ ations, are fixed and inexpressive, and have become as the clods of the valley - it is then that the heart-stricken mourner realizes the dreariness - the solitude - the agony of his deprivation.
Unmindful of the frail tenure of human existence, we ?oat along the current of time, annoyed and wearied with the cares that inter cept us in our passage; heedless of the blessings God has provided for us, in the tender attachment of a friend that cannot forget us; until the blow falls, that deprives us of our best earthly comforter, and we pass onward forsaken and alone. It is then that the tear will start afresh, and the sigh break from the heart, as we pause by every spot which her society has linked with memory - every well known and well-loved scene where childhood sported, or where, in advancing years, 'her presence encouraged and cheered the develope ment ofintellect or feeling - consoled in suffering, or rebuked, by its mild and saddened expression, deviations from duty or excess of passion. Her Spirit seems yet to linger in those scenes, and a silent voice speaks from them to the heart.
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