Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Discourse in Commemoration of the Life and Character of the Hon.: Nicholas Brown, Delivered in the Chapel of Brown University, November 3, 1841
The most impressive event, in the life of any human being, occurs at the moment when he is leaving it. The ties which have bound us to every thing below, are at that instant sundered. The rights and the obligations of parent and child, of husband and Wife, of citizen and magistrate, of benefactor and recipient, all terminate here. The world hath no farther claims upon the silent sleeper on the bed of death, now that the last sad agony is over, and the soul hath returned to God who gave it. The spirit, in all its deathless energies, has entered another state, and has bidden adieu to all that it hoped or feared, to all that it loved or hated, in this its changeful existence. Henceforward its home is in eternity.
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