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Excerpt from A Great Man Fallen, in Israel: The Sermon, in St. Mary's Church, Burlington, on the Seventh Sunday After Trinity, the Next David pay its tribute, to the valiant Abner, slain by the treachery Of J oab. There are few minds, familiar with the Holy Scriptures, into which, they have not sprung, as the unbidden comment, on that astounding providence, which has stilled the pulses Of the nation; and, today, twines every altar, in the land, with the funereal cypress. Know ye not-men say, to one another, as the lightning record flashes, through the land, the president Is dead know ye not, that there is a prince, and a great man, fallen, this day, in Israel? Death is the touch of nature, which, pre-eminently makes the world, all kin. God did not make it. It came in, with sin. Yet, we may say, and, still, be reverent, that, without it, as men have been, since the Fall, He could not live, in His own world. It is the one thing, at which nature quails. The fear of it sways the tumultuous Titan throngs, that, else, would scale the Heavens. And the damp chill, from its black wing, as it sweeps through the land, when pestilence falls on it, like a frost; or when, be side us, but a neighbour dies, is the reminder of our own mortality, and the conviction of His dread omnipotence. 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.