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eminence he has fallen-suddenly, forever fallen. His intercourse with the living world is now ended; and those who would hereafter find him, must seek him in the grave. There, cold and lifeless is the heart which just now was the seat of friendship. There, dim and sightless is the eye, whose radiant and enlivening orb beamed with intelligence; and there, closed forever, are those lips, on whose persua sive accents we have so often and so lately hung with transport.

2. From the darkness which rests upon his tomb, there proceeds, methinks, a light, in which it is clearly seen, that those gaudy objects which men pursue, are only phantoms. In this light, how dimly shines the splendor of victory-how humble appears the majesty of grandeur ! The bubble which seemed to have so much solidity, has burst; and we again see that all below the sun, is vanity.

8. True, the funeral eulogy has been pronounced. The sad and solemn procession has moved. The badge of mourning has already been decreed; and presently the sculptured marble will lift up its front, proud to perpetuate the name of Hamilton, and rehearse to the passing traveller his virtues.

4. Just tributes of respect, and to the living useful; but to him, mouldering in his narrow and humble habitation, what are they! How vain! How unavailing?

5. Approach and behold, while I lift from his sepulchre its covering. Ye admirers of his greatness, ye emulous of his talents and his fame, approach and behold him now. How pale! how silent! No martial bands admire the adroitness of his movements. No fascinated throng, weep, and melt, and tremble at his eloquence. Amazing change! A shroud! a coffin! a narrow, subterraneous cabin! This is all that now remains of Hamilton! And is this all that remains of him? During a life so transitory, what lasting monument then can our fondest hopes erect?

6. My brethren! we stand on the borders of an awful gulf, which is swallowing up all things human. And is there, amidst this universal wreck, nothing stable, nothing abiding, nothing immortal, on which poor, frail, dying man can fasten?

7. Ask the hero, ask the statesman, whose wisdom you have been accustomed to revere, and he will tell you. He will tell you, did I say? He has already told you, from his death-bed, and his illumined spirit still whispers from the heavens, with well-known eloquence, the solemn admonition: "Mortals! hastening to the tomb, and once the companions of my pilgrimage, take warning and avoid my errors-cultivate the virtues I have recommended-choose the Savior I have chosen. Live disinterestedly. Live for immortality. And would you rescue any thing from final dissolution, lay it up in God.-Dr. Nott."

Alexander Hamilton was doubtless "a great master of language and of song." It is said that on one occasion, he called upon the dead to come forth; and under the impression that they had broken their sacred slumbers, at the bidding of the speaker, the audience started up and vacated their seats, for the accommodation of those "that slept." The duel to which Dr. Nott alludes, and in which Hamilton was killed by Col. Burr, was fought at Weekawk, on the Jersey shore, July 11th, 1804. General Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis, in the year 1757. He wrote a large portion of the constitution of the United States. Fisher Ames well observes: "The country deeply laments, when it turns its eyes back, and sees what Hamilton was; but my soul stiffens with despair, when I think what Hamilton would have been."

EXTRACT FROM A SERMON DELIVERED IN ENGLAND, MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

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1. Brethren, the subject I am to preach matter, a Godly matter, a ghostly matter. ten in God's booke, in the Bible booke, in scripture, are written to be our doctrine. sowne in God's field, in God's plough land. The preaching of the gospel is one of God's works: the preacher is one of God's ploughmen. The office of a Bishop is a good worke, it is a worke; ye can make but a worke of it. It is God's worke, God's plough, and that plough, he would have still going.

2. But since Lording and loytering came up, the Bish

op sleepeth, while the devil seeketh, and the plough standeth. There is no worke done. The land is too stony,too thorney for Lording loyterers to plough; and the people starve. By Lording and loytering, preaching and ploughing is clean gone. As the body wasteth and consumeth away for lack of bodily meate, so doth the soule pine away for default of ghostly meates. Moses was a marvelous man, and a good man, and a married man; lack such as Moses was; I would all men would look to their duty as he did.

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3. But as they will not do their duty, O Lord, in what case are we! Such as be meate to bear office, seek them out, hire them out, give them competent and liberal, they shall not neede to take any bribes. Benefices are sold and

bought for money. I marvel the ground gapes not to devour such as sell the office of preaching. It is an intolerable thing. Patrons be charged to see the office done, and not to seek a lucre by their patronship.

4. There was a patron in England that had a benefice falne into his hand, and a good brother of mine came unto him and brought him 30 apples in a dish, and gave them to his man to carry them to his master. This man cometh to his master and presenteth him with a dish of apples, saying: "Sir, such a man hath sent you a dish of fruit, and desireth you to be good unto him for such a benefice." "Tush, tush," (quoth he,)" this is no apple matter; I will none of his apples; I have as good as these (or any he hath) in mine own orchard."

5. The man came to the priest again and told him what his master said. Then quoth the priest: "Desire him yet to proove one of them for my sake; he shall find them much better than they look for." He cut one of them and found ten pieces of GOLD in it. "Marry," quoth he, "this. is a good apple." The priest standing not far off, hearing what the gentleman said, cried out and answered: They are all of one fruit I'll warrant you, Sir, they all grew on one tree, and have all ONE taste.' "Well, he is a good fellow, let him have it," said the patron. Get you a graft of this tree, and I warrant you it will stand you in better stead than all St. Paul's learnieg. Well, let patrons take

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heed, for they shall answer for all the souls that perish through their default of ghostly meate.

6. Christ got into a boat and preached. He cared not for the pulpit, so he might do the people good. Should a preacher now do it, he would be laughed to scorn by the unpreaching prelates. It is well enough to have pulpits, but I would not have them superstitiously used. I heard of a Bishop that went on a visitation, and when he should be rung into town, the great bell's clapper was fallen down, so that he could not be rung into town. The Bishop was offended with the chief of the parish. "Why doth your lordship," saith he "make so great a matter of the bell that lacketh his clapper. which has brake; there is a bell, saith he, (and pointed to the pulpit,) that has lacked a clapper these twenty years."

7. We have a parson that fetcheth out of his benefice fifty pounds every year, but we never see him. I warrant you the Bishop was an unpreaching prelate. He could find fault with the bell that wanted a clapper to ring him into town, but he could find no fault at all with the parson that preached not at his benefice. Even this office of preaching hath scarce had a name in God's service. There be a great many men in England that say there is no soule, that think it is not eternall, but like a dog's soule.

8. Here I would take occasion to speake somewhat to my sisters, the women, before I take my leave of the world, for I think I have not long to live. Perillous women will rule their husbands in all things, and order matters after their own minds. They do therein brake the injunction that God gave them: "Thou shalt be subject unto the power of thy husband." Women are subjects-ye be subjects to your husbands. At the first, the man and the woman were equal; but after she had given credit to the serpent, she had an injunction to be "subject to the power of her husband." Yes, ye are underlings, UNDERLINGS, and must be obedient. Some are ruled by their husbands as they ought to be; but there be many Adams that will not displease their wives, but will let them do as them listeth. Such will be quarter-masters with their husbands. Quartermasters? Nay, half-masters, yea some of them will be

WHOLE-masters and rule the whole roast, as they list. This is taken for a laughing matter, but it is a weighty matter, a ghostly matter.-Bishop Latimer.

The sermon from which the above extract is taken, was preached in the year 1535, before king Henry VIII, by M. Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester. The bishop suffered martyrdom at the age of 85, by being burnt at the stake. His last words, as addressed to his fellow sufferer, were: "Be of good comfort, brother Ridley, we shall this day light such a candle in England, as I trust by God's grace, shall never be put out." Bisop Latimer was certainly a shrewd as well as a good man. He says: "When the devil told Christ that if he would worship him, he would give him all the kingdoms of the world, he lyed like a false varlet; he could not give them; he was not able to give so much as a goose wing, for they were not his to give." The Bishop is too severe with ladies, in calling them underlings. They are our associates, not our slaves. Our wives should be treated as our equals as well as companions. The reader will perceive that the orthography which obtained 300 years ago, as well as Latimer's style is retained in the extract.

MAN.

1. Man obviously stands pre-eminent among sublunary objects, and is distinguished by remarkable endowments, above all other terrestrial beings. Nevertheless, no creature presents such anomalous appearances as man. Viewed in one aspect, he almost resembles a demon; in another, he still bears the impress of the image of God. Seen in his crimes, his wars, and his devastations, he might be mis. taken for an incarnation of an evil spirit; contemplated in his schemes of charity, his discoveries in science, and his vast combinations for the benefit of his race, he seems a bright intelligence from heaven.

2. Man is introduced on earth, apparently helpless and unprovided for, as a homeless stranger; but the soil on which he treads is endowed with a thousand capabilities of production, which require only to be excited by his intelli. gence, to yield him the most ample returns. The impetu. ous torrent rolls its waters to the main; but, as it dashes over the mountain cliff, the human hand is capable of

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