Excerpt from Sermon in Memorial of Rev. Washburn, D.D Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel? [il samuel, 3 38. IT would strike us all with a strange awe, if, at night, we Should find that some bright, particular star, with which we had long been familiar, had suddenly ceased to appear in the heavens. There are many who were moved by much the same feeling when the tidings came that one, who had been to them as a guiding star and a bright beacon on the shore of thought, had passed away, to be seen no more on earth. We knew that his earthly career must soon come to an end, .and we could not desire that he should continue to live long, when his life was only a weariness and a sorrow but, when the blow came, it struck like a lightning flash, and the darkness that followed was a darkness that might be felt. I have more than once heard him say that he had sometimes longed for death, as the child longs for his bed, and now the rest has come and he is at peace. 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.