Excerpt from Lenten Sermons: Preached Chiefly to Young Men at the Universities, Between 1858-1874

Why is there such awe in that brief word, "death?" Why, if we could see along this Church a long solemn funeral procession, in which one by one, those narrow dwelling-places, wherein our bodies shall one day resolve into their dust, should pass before us; each, as they shall one day be, as in God's sight they are, inscribed with our several names, the number of our fleeting years, the year, month, day, which closed them; why should we look each with an awed gaze upon our own? Whence is that cold pang which brave men have felt on the battle eve? Or why do crowds fly, like scared sheep, before a pestilence? Is it only the heathen thought, that "linquenda tellus et domus et placens uxor?" Or is it a shrinking from the bodily circumstances of death, that "this sensible warm motion shall become a kneaded clod?"

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