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Was there not a manifest and happy connection between the circumstances
that providentially brought the serious and the careless to the same
grave on that day together? How much do they lose who neglect to trace
the leadings of God in providence, as links in the chain of his eternal
purpose of redemption and grace!
"While infidels may scoff, let us adore."
After the service was concluded, I had a short conversation with the good
old couple and their daughter. She had told me that she intended to
remain a week or two at the gentleman's house where her sister died, till
another servant should arrive and take her sister's place.
"I shall be truly obliged," said she, "by an opportunity of conversing
with you, either there or at my father's, when I return home, which will
be in the course of a fortnight at the farthest. I shall be glad to talk
to you about my sister, whom you have just buried."
Her aspect and address were highly interesting. I promised to see her
very soon; and then returned home, quietly reflecting on the
circumstances of the funeral at which I had been engaged. I blessed the
God of the poor; and prayed that the poor might become rich in faith, and
the rich be made poor in spirit.
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