en.

the honorable Legislature. During the last year, our state in general, has been visited with an unusual degree of mortality. The sighs of the widow and the orphan, have ascended to heavA large portion of your associates, have been called into the eternal world. By assembling to pay a tribute of respect to departed worth; and with humility and resignation, to recognize the awful visitation of Heaven, you evince a becoming sympathy with the afflicted, and set an example, worthy the Legislators of a Christian people. Permit me, to remind you of the distinguishing goodness of God, in sparing you. Consider these recent instances of mortality, as the voice of God. "Be ye also ready." Every moment brings you nearer the grave and the awful tribunal of Jehovah. Probably before another year is past, many in this assembly will be sleeping in the dust. Are you prepared for that tremendous moment, when you must bid adieu to time, and launch into eternity? Turn not a deaf ear to the warning voice of God. Cherish the solemn reflections which the present occasion presses on your minds, and fly to the refuge God has provided. He has done every thing that it was proper he should do for your salvation. His Son has died for you to expiate your sins, and has removed all external obstacles. The calls of his grace are free and indiscriminate, "Whosoever will let him come."-"Him that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out." "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near." "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon." By embracing the gospel, you will find a remedy for every evil, a balm for every wound. You will be prepared to meet your Saviourand your God; and possess a hope full of ardour, full of immortality.

WHO WAS UNFORTUNATELY DROWNED IN THE CONGAREE RIVER NEAR COLUMBIA.

DELIVERED IN THE

COLLEGE CHAPEL, ON LORD'S DAY,

OCTOBER 10, 1819.

A FUNERAL SERMON.

"THOU HAST APPOINTED HIS BOUNDS THAT HE CANNOT PASS."—JOB xiv. 5.

THE repeated instances of mortality, with which we have been visited, while they call forth our sympathy, fill us with a profound sense of the mysterious sovereignty and supreme dominion of God. Though he clothes himself in darkness, yet he executes his judgments in righteousness. His path is in the mighty waters, and his footsteps are not known. His warning voice summons us to the tomb, and to the bar of eternal judgment. Let us remember that we too must die. Let us not deceive ourselves by imagining, that youth, or health,or strength; that virtue or learning, or mature age, can, one moment, secure us, against the arrest of death. Let your own experience impress this solemn truth on your hearts. Call to mind your late fellow student who now sleeps in dust. You saw him like yourselves in all the gaiety, sprightliness and bloom of youth; you saw him fall like the morning flower that bows its head in death. O consider that distinguishing goodness, that has spared you; remember your creator now in the days of your youth, and devote yourselves to him in a constant preparation for a future world. You know not how soon, or how suddenly you may be called to descend into the gloomy valley. Perhaps you are now treading at the horizon of time, just ready to step into eternity. If you would be prepared for this solemn event; if