FEAR OF DEATH. support to a soul sinking at the approach of the inevitable hour, awed at the view of final judgment. The hero, who, in the hot engagement, surrounded with the "pride, pomp, and circumstance of war," bravely defied death, forgot all that was personal, and only remembered - nobly remembered his country, and his immediate duty ; - animated . with the glory that was to be acquired byhis arm, and almost ready to exclaim with the Roman patriot ; What pity That we can die but once to serve our country r yet this hero, if he had never made a conscience of prayer, may he not here- after find, that the most successful in- strumentality is a distinct thing in itself, and will be different in its results, from personal piety ? May he not find that, though he saved others, himself he can- not save ? If, however, in after-life, in the cool shade of honourable retirement, he be
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