"I am requested to announce," said Dr Drummond after the singing of the last hymn, "the death, yesterday morning, of James Archibald Ramsay, for fifteen years an adherent and for twenty-five years a member of this church.

The funeral will take place from the residence of the deceased, on Court House Street, tomorrow afternoon at four o'clock.

Friends and acquaintances are respectfully--invited--to attend." The minister's voice changed with the character of its affairs.

Still vibrating with the delivery of his sermon, it was now charged with the official business of the interment.

In its inflections it expressed both elegy and eulogy; and in the brief pause before and after "invited" and the fall of "attend" there was the last word of comment upon the mortal term.