Excerpt from A Sermon Addressed to the Second Presbyterian Congregation, Albany: Sunday Afternoon, May 9, 1858, on Occasion of the Death of the Hon. Archibald McIntyre Death, in its more general aspects, is always the same - in its more particular aspects, it is greatly modified by. Character and circum stances. Job died the silver cord by which body and soul were bound together was loosed, - the one becoming disorganized, and sinking into decay, the other passing away, in conscious activity, into the world unseen; and herein he is a representative of the whole human family. Job was one that feared God and eschewed evil - he held fast his integrity under the most trying circumstances; and this made him, in his death not less than in his life, a representative of the whole redeemed family Job died, being old and full of days he died not only a good man, but a good old man - his death terminated a long life, which had been devoted to the service of God and the benefit of his fellow creatures. Yousee then that the brief but striking obituary record which I have just read to you, natu rally suggests, as a subject for our contempla tion, the death or AN aged christian - a subject to which the Providence of God is impressively directing us. Let us then briefly consider the death of the aged Christian under the aspect of a change. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.