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Excerpt from A Discourse on the Life and Character of the Rev. Nathaniel Thayer Delivered at His Interment, June 29, 1840
No language can represent the transitoriness of human life more forcibly than that which is used in Scripture. Its emblems are found in the frailest things in nature and the most uncertain events in human experience. It is a vapor that ?oats in unsubstantial masses above us; the sun rises, and it vanishes. It is a shadow that passes over the valley; the interposing cloud goes by, and it disappears. It is as the ?ower of the plain and the grass of the field; the foot of the unconscious traveller tramples Upon it, and it Withers; the scythe of the mow er goes over it, and it is cut down. The Lord of life has committed to his servants his treasures - the rich treas ures of the mind and heart - the means of usefulness and virtue and happiness, and he may come for them in the morning or evening, at midnight or midnoon. Help, Lord, is the desponding cry of the Psalmist; as if hefeared that death in his unsparing progress and indis criminate slaughter would cut off all the godly and cause the faithful among the children of men to fail.
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