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  are dedrived of our earthly friends. It is this, that
  God himself condescends to sustain to us while on
  earth the very same relation which our departed
  friends sustained to us; and by a parity of reasoning,
  he sustains to our friends in glory the very same
  relation which we on earth sustained to them.
    Thus, while all other things connected with the
 history of man, as an inhabitant of earth, are con-
 tinually changing-the mercy of the Lord is from
 everlasting to everlasting, c.
   We shall illustrate this fact by a reference to a
 few a particular cases.
   1. "For thy Maker is thine husband: The Lord
 of hosts is his namte: and thy Redeemer the Holy
 One of Israel; the God of the whole earth shall he
 be called." Isaiah 54. 5.
   Instead of a creature, weak and dependant and
changeable in his condition, and in his plans and
purposes, you have here the Creator of all, and the
preserver and the governor of all, the Almighty, as
thy husband. And whatever the earthly husband
had a heart to do, the God of the whole earth, the
maker, and the preserver of all, is ready to do for
thee and for thine. He is the father of the father-
less and a judge of the widows, in his holy habita-
tion. (Psalm 68. 5.) The God of Israel has pledged
his unsullied veracity to (lo all this.
  And shallthesethingsbe known onearth, and shall
they nol be known in heaven and in glory also
The departed husband in heaven will have his hap-
piness increased, and will have his song of triumph
ant of victory excited with a new and a more vigor-