ST RANGENEss or DEATH.
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Angels have no death to undergo; there II
no such fear of unnatural violence between
ih0ni and their final destiny, i i tJrman. and,
for aught tha' appears, il i for man alone, TO
watch, from the other side ot tFe material pau
Drama that surrounds hlm, the great and ama-
ziag realities with which he has everastingly
to %; il is tor tim, 50 locked iii al marisou-
mont Of clay, and with no other IooPhnes Of
comm uncaton between himself and All that
surrounds him, than the eve and the ear; il Is
for him to light up IN HE bosom 4 lively and
realizing sense Of the things that the eye hath
never and ear bath never heard. II Is for
man, and perhaps for man alone, 10 travel IN
thought over the ruins of mighty desolation,
and beyond tie wreck Of that present world
by which he is encompassed, to concelye and
exnatiate forever, But harder achievement
PERHAPS than any, II is for man, in the exer-
else of faith to observe than most appalling ot
all CONCENTRATIONS, the decay and dissolution
Of himself; 10 think Of time when his now
animated frame -work every part Of which is
40 sensitive and dear 10 him, shall fall to pieces;
when Tie vital warmth hY which It 5 now 50
thoroughly pervaded, shall take its departure,
and ieaye To coIdness and abandonment, all that
is visible Of this moving and acting, and think
inc creature; when those limbs, with which
he now steps 80 firmly. and that countenance
ont OF which he looks so gracefully, and that
tongue, with which he now speaks 50 eloquent
~; when that sale body, for the interest and
provision 0 which he now labors 50 strenuous
IY, asifit were immortal: when all these shall
be reduced to pulrefaction and at length crum-
BILE, with the coffin that encloses them, into
dust! Why my brethren, 10 a being in the
full consciousness and possession ofits living
energies there is something if may be allow
ed the expression, 50 foreign and so unnatural
in death, that we ought not to wonderif scar
ed away the mind from that ETHEREAL region Of
existence to which it is fastening. Angels
have no such transitions of horror .pnd myste-
ry to undergo. There is no screen Of dark
ness interposed between them and the portion
Of their fntulity, however distant and il appears
that it is for man, and man only to drive a
bridge across the barrier that looks so impene-
trable, OF 50 TO surmount the power Of vision,
as to carry his aspirings over the SUBMITS Of all
that revelation has made known to him.


DR.. Chalmers.