Excerpt from Discourse, Delivered at the Funeral of John Church, Maury, Trinity Church, Washington: February 4, 1855 Life is the deepest of all mysteries if we miss the key to unlock it. It is a riddle, a puzzle, a thing wrapped in inexplicable darkness and gloom, on any theory but one. Let us View it from the standing-points of a worldly philosophy, and behold how great is the mystery resting upon the pathway of life. I. Take then the theory of life according to this world's judgment. 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.