Excerpt from A Sermon Preached in the First Church, Dorchester: Sunday, November 23, 1844 That ascriptions of praise should break from the mourner's lips - that strains of grateful bene diction should alternate with the wail of bereave ment, might to some seem strange, inconsistent, impossible. There is a time - is the common thought - for all things; a time to rejoice, and a time to mourn. But how can these times be one? How can these differing elements mingle? With what propriety are we called upon to bless God, when, stricken down at our Side, and Irre coverably taken, are our cherished comforts? We may command ourselves to a silent submis sion; we may bow, unmurmuringly, to the fatal mandate; but how can we rejoice? How can the current of our thoughts, at such a time, be made to move the wheels of gratitude? 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.