SERIOUS REFEECTIoNs.

LIFE AND DEATH.
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The dearest ties are sundered, and the sa-
lie pail conveys to the still! grave the young
he beautiful, the aged and the worthy. The
olemn knell rolls along the breeze rs it tolls
lie mournful obsequies which are paid to
he dead, and strikes on the ear Of the liv-
g with an ominous and warning note.


There is something peculiarly instructive
y those simple ceremonies which we de-
1te to our deceased friend when we say,


-ct us arise and bury our dead" The
st look which we bestow upon that coun-


nance which has gladdened US with its


'he; the company OF monrner, and friend,