Excerpt from A Discourse on the Sabbath Following the Funeral of Miss. Elizabeth P. Hooker: Delivered in the First Congregational Church, South Windsor, Conn But it may be that in some other scene than amidst the Quiet of home and surrounded by friends, to watch and minister to every want of the sick bed, your Christian friend was called to meet death, and to commence his journey to the skies. Per haps he had gone abroad to a foreign land, and his death bed was made and attended only by strangers. Or on the stormy ocean, in the gallant ship which was foundered, he, with helpless hun dreds of his fellow voyagers, went down to find his grave in the deep ocean; and you can never find the spot, to set up to his memory your inscribed monument of affection. Or he had left you for a few days only, to go into such a city, in our own land; and death met him with others, amidst the confusion and dismay Of the benighted, stranded or burning steamer; and you learn that in some hour when you thought of him as safe on his prosperous passage Of ver, the spreading sound, or the majestic the terrors of a catastrophe which had its completion in his passing the gates of death, to be no more in this world. Or perhaps, as in the' case which within the last week has caused a funeral assemblage in this sanctuary and the opening of a grave yonder; death came pre ceded by the dethronement of reason, and through that myste rious movement of the diseased mind, in which the soul rushes out of life in frightful yet unconscious speed; and by which. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.