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Oak Lawn, [inserted: March] [illegible] Feb 1837

What is a name? air unbreathed after death. Has
is a celebrated name to be breated no more after the
person is dead ever so is a general trunk. What do
we live for? to perpetuate our species and die yes
we live in obedience to revive wisdom to glorefy your
Maker, ???? and worship hier and leave wholesome
precepts and good examples to those who are to rep-
resent us in blood and name, when we shall have
left the world to realize the world eternal.
Man is fo[strikeout:u]nd of that which he will know not
hug, or care nothing of after death immort-
ality, which being restricted to the duration of time
must still perish. There is but one immediately
of which we should be desirisious - that is
eternal happiness when we have ceased on earth.
How many excellent men are greated, praised, and tal-
ked of and celebrated with zeal and joy while liv-
ing - the moment death arrests them their name pass
away like the sounds of the bell that toll their
dessalution a loud solemn annoucement, than
a fading away - He is gone for ever! No more talk
of!! Cannot we think of and mourn and be ins-
truded by our departed friends? They are soon forgotten,
unmourned and their examples good to us are not accr-
edited to them. A few, very vew, the reflecting, the sen-
timental and elegious time of mind, alone will weap
and pay a grateful tribute to the illusthious dead.
Thare remarks are followed on teh everlasting absence
from this world, of Meprs. Hon Jessa Wilson Geo. W.
Montgomery and David E. Sumner the pr of Perquins-
ins the latter of this County Hertfore: All three men
of figure and high in estimation - were always at our Coruts: One
by one, they have passes away - were all three absent at our
last Court - We had lively times - were the dead talked of? No I
did remark their void and sorrowful was?? Farewell