...rudest and least reflecting. The land-service for the burial of the dead contains the following words: " Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, of his...the ground ; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to duet ; in sure and certain hope," &c. Every one, I am sure, who has attended the funeral of a friend...

...unity of the church." After death, he is spoken of as a departed saint, and it is affirmed, " that it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to...himself the soul of our dear brother here departed." All this, and much more to the same effect, I should be applying to converted and unconverted, godly...

...mortality, and of the long-suffering of a bounteous and merciful God. Then is the corpse committed to the ground, " earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life." The whole form of words at this time used by the minister are...

...to support his spirits, and carry him through the great work which he has now to do. And when it has pleased Almighty God, of his great mercy, to take unto himself the soul of this our dear brother, the minister, by the order and in the name of the Church, commits his body to...

...descended slowly but silently ; and just as the coffin disappeared from view, the dean having said, " We commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust," the porter of the college threw some sand upon it from a bag of sand which he had brought...

...descended slowly but silently ; and just as the coffin disappeared from view, the dean having said, " We commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust," the porter of the college threw some sand upon it from a bag of sand which he had brought...

...round the grave of Hopkins, as in a distant corner of the church-yard there was committed "earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life." If this simple narrative makes the impression I desire on those...

...thee. • Then tehile the earth thail br coil upon t'-r Body by tome tlanding by, the Prieit shall lay. f^ORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to A take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the...

...the priest say, without faltering of voice, or scruple of conscience, these words : — namely, 22. Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, of his...departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life. 23. Now I would not have ye unmindful,...

...place, said over his .crave, with peculiar solemnity, " Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty (iodof his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother nere departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to a-shes, dust to...