her, and she shall live." From her grave, which was soon made by the
side of kindred dust, Jesus will raise her up at the last day; her voice
will come to that body; her youthful beauty will be reestablished by
her likeness to Christ's own glorious body; she will lean upon my arm
again; the separation and absence will enhance the joy of meeting; we
shall say, How like a hand-breadth was the separation! We shall see
reasons full of wisdom and love for the sickness and the early death. We
shall part no more. All this has more than once made me say, and sing,--

"O, for this love, let rocks and hills
Their lasting silence break,
And all harmonious human tongues
The Saviour's praises speak."

Young friend, you will need him as the great Physician, the Friend in
sorrow, the Forerunner in the dark passages of life, the Conqueror of
death, the Lord our Righteousness, and, all endearing names in one,
Immanuel, God with us.

Parents, you will need him for your children. Children, you will need
him when father and mother, one or both, have forsaken you, or, if
alive, can only make you feel how little their fond love can do for you.
When the name of _father_, cannot rouse you, nor your cold hand return
the pressure of your father's hand, you will need a nearer, dearer
friend, in the person of Him who loved you, and gave himself for you.

It has been one of the richest joys of my pastoral life, that I have
sent to her mother in heaven her child, whom God had prepared for so
early a departure out of this world. This ministry of reconciliation has
been blessed to the salvation of my child. It should make me love the