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delay
;
a messenger
who lays his
coldhand
on
princes,
and bears them away resistless
through
the midst
of
then-
.
guards,
to
their
long home, and
the
unseen world.
Vain
was
the
skill
of
physicians
in
that
mournful hour
;
the
zeal
and fondness
of
a
brother's
love
was
vain,
He
arrived
at
the
palace
of
Osrraburg,
the
habitation
of
his
dearest
brother,
and only gave
him
the sad
opportunity
to
see
a,dying
monarch, and take
his
last
long leave
of
so
near
and
so
desirable
a
relative.
What
lesson shall
we
learn
now
from the
suddenness
of
this
great event but
to
"
awaken
our
own souls to a con
-
stant
readiness
for a removal."
Be
ye always
ready,
says
our
blessed
Lord,
for ye
know
not
when
ye
shall
be
called,
whether
at
even
or
at
midnight, or
when
the cock
crows in
the morning
;"
Mar
/c
xiii.
35.
Whether
we
shall.be
sum-
moned
away
at
once
from
our
own homes,
or
when
we
are
travelling
in
distant
lands.
Let
us
remember
we
are
still
borderers
on
the
grave,
and the
eternal
world,
and
we
are
always within
a moment's reach
of
the invisible
state
and the region
of
spirits.
It
is
but
the
wink
of an
eÿe,
the cessation
of
the
pulse,
the stoppage
of our
breath,
and we
are
gone
beyond
the power
of
medicines,
and
the
art
of
man to
recai
us.
Who
would
venture upon a
jour-
ney
without having
his
soul
insured
in
the hands
of Jesus,
the Saviour
?
'There
is
another
reflection
that
we may
derive from
this circumstance
of
the
death of our late
sovereign,
and
that
is,
how
often have
we
ourselves been preserved in
journies,
when our
gracious
monarch died
in
the midst
of
his
travels
?
blow have
we
left' our
habitations
in
peace, visited
our
friends
in
distant
parts,
and
returned
to
our
dwellings
in
peace again
?
But this
great
man
was
cut
off on a
sudden,
before
he
reached the
place
de-
signed
?
How often have our friends
gone
forth from the
midst
of
us,
and
been
brought
back with safety
and
joy
?
Our
king went from
us
and
returns
no
more
;
here
is
the
sovereignty of
Divine
Providence
;
here
is
¿he
interposing
will
of the
Almighty
:
Let
us
remember then
to
take the
will
and
providence
of
'the
great God into our consulta-
tions,
"
when
we
say, to
-day, or to-morrow, we
will
.gel
into such a
city,
and
continue there
a season and
return
again;
whereas
we
know
not
what
shall
be
on
the
mor-
row
:
What
-is
your
life,
it
is
even a
vapour
that
appears
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