Excerpt from God With the Aged: A Sermon Preached to the First Church, Jan; 7, 1849, the Sunday After the Death of Hon. Peter C. Brooks Blessed be God for all those who have found this to be true who have been carried thus to the end, and were then laid down in peace Blessed be God for all those who were conducted graciously, and who conducted themselves honorably, through a long career of this life's service, and were then deliv'ered with equal mercy out of all its troubles! Blessed be God for all those whose hoar hairs were crowns of glory, because always found in. The ways of righteousness, and who have now ex changed these for crowns of incorruption, because they have been redeemed into an everlasting inheritance! For their influence while they continued to live, for their comforts when they came to die, we give thanks. They have fought a good fight, and are now safely at rest. They have kept the faith, and now the faith keeps them. Nothing is more venerable than their example. 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.