Mount Auburn: its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons . ially namedhim about to be committed to the grave. The kiss of peace is spoken of, and the anointing withholy oil, as the last rites of all ; but these seem not tohave been always observed. It was very usual to strew CHRISTIAN BURIAL. 159 flowers on the grave ; and no old Avriter, how rigidsoever, has reprobated this innocent, beautiful, and mostsuggestive custom. And so fulfilled with the grace and benediction ofHim whom they had learned to know of their Father inHeaven, as their Redeemer to all eternity, in faitli andhope, in the exer
Mount Auburn: its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons . ially namedhim about to be committed to the grave. The kiss of peace is spoken of, and the anointing withholy oil, as the last rites of all ; but these seem not tohave been always observed. It was very usual to strew CHRISTIAN BURIAL. 159 flowers on the grave ; and no old Avriter, how rigidsoever, has reprobated this innocent, beautiful, and mostsuggestive custom. And so fulfilled with the grace and benediction ofHim whom they had learned to know of their Father inHeaven, as their Redeemer to all eternity, in faitli andhope, in the exercise of prayer and almsgiving, the earlyChristians were enabled to give hearty thanks to God,that he had been pleased to deliver their brethren outof the miseries of this sinful world. THE APPLETON MONUMENT. This monument stands in Woodbine Path, and was erected by Appleton, of Boston. It is a miniatuie Grecian Temple, of fineItalian marble, surmounted by funereal lamps, with appropriate deviceson its facade. It is the work of Italian EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS. 161 EPITAPHS AND INSCRIPTIONS. Every person of intelligence and sensibility is alive tothe beauties of a brief, simple, and appropriate epitaphwhich excites a reverence for the dead, and awakens aninterest in the events of his life. When we encounter aheadstone without an epitaph, it seems like a book with amere title page, while the leaves that follow are blank. Itis an indispensable appendage to a monument, and weturn from one that is without it as from a work of sculp-ture that is unfinished. The propriety of this tribute tothe dead is universally admitted ; and it is not, therefore,a useless task to endeavor to define the principles bywhich the composition of it should be governed ; for ifone that is appropriate and well written, is pleasing to themost indifferent reader, one that is awkward, high-sounding or exaggerated, is ludicrous and demeaning tothe character of the subject. There are some ep
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