A sweet solemnity often possesses the mind, whilst retracing past intercourse with departed friends.

How much is this increased, when they were such as lived and died in the Lord! The remembrance of former scenes and conversations with those who, we believe, are now enjoying the uninterrupted happiness of a better world, fills the heart with pleasing sadness, and animates the soul with the hopeful anticipation of a day when the glory of the Lord shall be revealed in the assembling of all his children together, never more to be separated.

Whether they were rich or poor while on earth, is a matter of trifling consequence; the valuable part of their character is, that they are kings and priests unto God, and this is their true nobility.

In the number of now departed believers, with whom I once loved to converse on the grace and glory of the kingdom of God, was the Dairyman's daughter.
About a week after the funeral I went to visit the family at -- -, in whose service the youngest sister had lived and died, and where Elizabeth was requested to remain for a short time in her stead.
The house was a large and venerable mansion.

It stood in a beautiful valley at the foot of a high hill.