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of towns as more fit to be made the depository of the dead than towns themselves . In . crowded cities the first object is the welfare of the population ; and to this every unwholesome icustom should be sacrificed ; andf as the numbers of the living increase , 4 &e 4 ead should be removed where space can be allowed , without grudging , to their remains , and where their presence must be salutary to 4 toe « mid , while it is not hurtful to the health .
As ^ matter « tf feeling , if tfte remains of the dead art * to betneaied with any observance tit all , let . us 'give then * att that is in <* ur power . Let us place them whetfe they shsffl be exempt frofti fnofeacftion , and protected by the most hallowed infinCTices ^ hich we can favolkfc ., A * we can-not always watch over * herr toniba , let * is tjommk them to ikne keeping of nature . While we are engaged in the busy concerns <* f fife , she w * U be dressing die graves with her ftnr flowers aim sprtngfeg wrdore ; dhe wilt be making melody with her many voices , and her < Amd& and sungteee « # itl feting they daily filtrate to the billowed spot . And when the toettt and burden of the
< lay are past , wither ihay we repair to refresh the memory -of the dead withm cs ^ and white we recall days that are sane by , and opea our hearts to the « weet Influences -of ^ fee present time , were may we best aoUcipate the close < sf otir day ^ f life , « nd Wathe a prayer * hat that hour way te calm and tflessed fflce diis . Mere may we best reconcile our minds to the approach of the night of deat % , and realize and exalt twir ^ ooceptioiis of the eternal mor ning whteh shaH unclose erery eye , and -restore the long-suspended energies of every 39 $ .
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tm thb peatw or vm& * u . Nay , weep not-rnor , fhat form hetoyfA , let tears Profane with idle woe—that time is past . The time has . been when cares , and toils , and fears , Which only Mothers know ^ had drawn lihem fast From sterner eyes tfyan jthine . But do we mourn
When conquerors wia their wreaths ? When die wild strife Of mortal combat o ' er , our bosoms burn To grant the meed of fame , more dear than life : And shall the Christian Victor , in a field Of nobler warfare , urge his ceaseless fi g ht , Winning celestial triumphs , yet we yield No voice of joy to hail the glorious sight ? Then weep no more—but at this hallowed shrine Comae muse on visions of the life divine . M . A
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Sonnet on the Death af Mrs . M . 233
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their property to the Church of tEa ^ land without retnmneration ; especially as tlie < J *« ioh cmJ Ibhjcn refuse thrtenjieiit < to © iimctiiters in , tlwir own ground . It in frequently otyeztcd Xo bmial { daces autonded / or the m&c of aU denominations , that the ftineral service of the Church of England cannot be performed on nnconsecrated ground . But If the objector Will examine the Canon , he will find no 8 ne 1 i prohibition -m % eonimatily repotted 'to "exist . The service may be performed In any ( daoe . The dpr ^ jttan of tie RtitoMbtoment is only l <» ii ) i 4 dtHi to une any other funeral service than that prescribed iti the Book of Common Prayer , of the Church of England .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1828, page 233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2559/page/17/
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