Excerpt from A Sermon Preached in Park Street Church, on the Sunday Succeeding the Death of Daniel Webster

It was wise for the royal preacher whose text was, 'vanity of vanities - all is vanity, ' to close his ser mon by leading his audience into the presence of Death, and making those dumb lips of the mighty Teacher repeat after him, 'all Is vanity.' In the same solemn presence, coming from the midst of busy life, we may learn the lesson of the emptiness of earthly riches, pleasures and honors, and by the closest links of association send our thought forward, - from these perishing temporal things, these ¿eetingsemblances of time, to the enduring and indestructible realities - to the long final home OF man.

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