Religion, reason, and experience, rather bid us indulge, in due place and season, those tender emotions, which keep the heart alive to its most valuable sensibilities.

To check them serves but to harden the mind, and close the avenues which lead to the sources of our best principles of action.
Jesus himself _wept_ over the foreseen sorrows of Jerusalem.

He _wept_ also at the grave of his friend Lazarus.

Such an example consecrates the tear of affection, while it teaches us, concerning them which are asleep, not to sorrow, as those which have no hope.
I soon fell into meditation on the mysterious subject of the flight of a soul from this world to that of departed spirits.
"Swifter than an arrow from the bow, or than the rays of light from the sun, has this child's spirit hastened, in obedience to its summons from God, to appear in his immediate presence.

How solemn a truth is this for universal consideration! But, 'washed in the blood of the Lamb that was slain,' and happily made partaker of its purifying efficacy, she meets her welcome at the throne of God.