SERIOUS aEFLECTxoNs.
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Listen, We ardent and ambitious in the
pursuit of earthly good. Boast not your
selves of tomorrow; for ye know not what
day may bring forth; yc are careful and
troubled about many things; but one thing is
needful. Oh, seize the present moment to
choose, and to seek that good part which
cannot be taken from you. Listen ye aged;
younger than yourselves is gone down to
the grave.-Your remaining time cannot be
long; the almond tree begins to flourish, you
are ripening for the tomb; be We also ready.


I.istenye, whose morning smiles illume
the happy circle Of your triends.-Listcn ye,
whose noon of life is Frightened by the
beams of filial, conjugal, fraternal orpar-
entail affection from surrounding eyes. Re-
member that comforts arc but lent to cheer
YOU in your pilgrimage towards heaven; ere
long YOU must resign them to the hand from
which they came. Dwell with these friends,
therefore, as mortal beings, and place your
hopes on higher, nobler, more enduring
state. How soon the present circle of our
acquaintance may be broken up; how soon
one and another of our brethren and friends
may be missed from the field Of his indus
try, and the bed of his rcposc, from his sta
tion at the board, and his seat in the sane
tuary, we know not. Who next shall be
called hence to be here no more, or ho"
long it shall be with any of us, before WI
shall go to our long home, and the mourner'
go about the streets, we know not; but thi


we know, with all of us the time is short, VIZ
calculate life by years, soon. very soon, i


may be reckoned in months, days, minutes
30 that men were wise, that they under


stood this, that they would consider thei
latter end''