Beyond the Veil.-Vaughan.

Burial of the Dead.-Keble.

Cowper's Grave.-Mrs. Browning.

Death in Arabia (" He who died at Azan").-Edwin Arnold.

Elegy in a Country Churchyard.-Gray.

Hamlet's Soliloquy.—Shakespeare (Hamlet—Act iii. Scene 1).
Hymn to Death.-Bryant.

In Memoriam.-Tennyson.

Lalla Rookh (line 278 seq.).—Moore.
Lycidas.― Milton.

Ode Intimations of Immortality.-Wordsworth.

Oh may I join the choir invisible.-George Eliot.
Over the river they beckon to me.-Nancy Priest
Resignation. Longfellow.

Thanatopsis.-Bryant.

The Conqueror's Grave.-Bryant.

The Deathbed.-Hood.

The First Snowfall (on the death of a child).—Lowell

The Grave.-Blair.

The Hour of Death.-Mrs. Hemans.

The Reaper and the Flowers.-Longfellow.

The Sleep.-Mrs. Browning.

The Two Angels.-Longfellow.

The Two Voices.-Tennyson.

Threnodia (on the death of an infant boy).—Lowell.
To Bear, to Nurse, to Rear.-Mrs. Hemans.

THE CARNAGE OF WAR.

In his "Vindication of Natural Society," published in 1756, Edmund Burke, the English statesman, makes the following rough estimate of the number of lives sacrificed in war, as far as history gives us any knowledge on the subject:

Lives Lost.

In wars of Græcia Magna, prior to Roman dominion,
In wars at the beginning of the Roman Empire,

1,000,000

2,000,000

In Punic wars,

3,000,000

In wars between Rome and Mithridates,

In wars waged by Julius Cæsar,

In conquest of Judea and destruction of Jerusalem,
In conquest of Spanish America,

In all the wars of the world (rough estimate),

Since the above estimate was made, the following wars, among others, have been prosecuted: The Seven Years' War (1756-63); French and Indian War, in part (1754-59); American Revolution (1775-81); French Revolution (1789-95); Napoleonic wars (1796-1814); War of 1812 (181215); war between United States and Mexico (1846-47); Crimean War (1854-56); Mutiny in India (1857); war between France and Italy (1859); American Rebellion (1861-65); Franco-German War (1870–71); Russo-Turkish War (1877-78).

TEXTUAL INDEX.

Numbers xxfii: 10. Let me die the death of the righteous, etc..
Deuteronomy xxxii: 49, 50. Get thee up into this mountain, etc......
Deuteronomy xxxiv: 1–5.

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PAGE

And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the
mountain of Nebo. . . . So Moses, the servant of God, died there in the land of
Moab, according to the word of the Lord.......

Joshua i 11. Prepare you victuals, for within three days ye shall pass over this
Jordan..

269

279

94

277

2 Samuel iii: 38.
in Israel?..

Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day

123

7 Kings vii: 22.

Upon the top of the pillars was lily work.

250

1 Kings xx: 28.

2 Kings iv: 26.

The Lord is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys...
Is it well with the child? and she answered, It is well....

2 Kings vi: 17.

Behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire.......... 271
Job v 26. Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh
in in his season .........

Job vii: 6. My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle.

I bowed down heavily as one that mourneth for his mother..

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto

wisdom.......

Proverbs i :
: 25,

......... 207, 218, 267

26. Because ye have set at naught all my counsel. . . . I also will laugh

Behold the Lord. . . doth take away from Jerusalem and from

Judah the stay and the staff, etc....

100

Isaiah xxxviii : 16. O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life
of my spirit..

194

Jajah li: 11.
The redeemed of the Lord shall return.
shall flee away......

Isaiah xl: 6-8. The voice said, Cry; and he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is
grass, etc......

265

and sorrow and mourning

244

Isaiah lvii : 1. The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart...
Jeremiah xv : 9. Her son is gone down while it was yet day....
Jeremiah xlviii: 17. How is the strong staff broken and the beautiful rod!.

PAGE

Amos viii: 9.

Amos v 8. Seek Him that . . . turneth the shadow of death into the morning...
I will cause the sun to go down at noon........

Lamentations iii: 33.

Daniel iv : 17.

Though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion, etc...... 223
This matter is by the decree of the watchers. . . that the living
may know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men..
Amos iv 12. Prepare to meet thy God.....

123

247

275

270

Matthew xxv: 46.

Matthew xxvi: 8.

Jonah iv : 7. God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it
smote the gourd that it withered
Matthew xvii : 3, 4. There appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with Him,
and Peter answered, etc..
And these shall go away into everlasting punishment....
To what purpose is this waste?..

Luke viii : 52.

Luke xxiii: 43.

All were weeping and bewailing her, but He said, etc....... 274
To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.....

275

Luke xxiv: 5, 6.
risen

Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is

266

Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now,

Acts xx: 24.
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto
myself, etc....

79

Acts xxvi : 8. Why is it judged incredible with you if God doth raise the dead?......... 279
Romans viii : 10, 11. If Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the
Spirit is life, etc........

Romans xiii: 11. Now is our salvation nearer than when we believed....

226

260

1 Corinthians xiii: 12.

1 Corinthians xv: 18.

1 Corinthians iii: 21, 22. All things are yours: whether . . . life or death.
Now we see through a glass darkly.
They also which are fallen asleep in Christ.....

Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption
up in victory.....

.......

1 Corinthians xv: 55-57. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
The sting of death is sin, etc...

1 Corinthians xv: 56, 57. The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law;
but thanks be to God, etc....

256

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death..

37

274

...

.... 272

........186, 228

181

2 Corinthians ii: 14.

Thanks be to God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ. 167
Knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent

2 Corinthians v : 6.
from the Lord......
Galatians iii: 1. Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth....... 268
Philippians i : 21. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain..
215, 271
Philippians i : 23, 24. But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having a desire to depart,

1 hessalonians iv : 13. I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning
them which are asleep, etc......
.....102, 19′′
Hebrews ii: 15.
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime
subject to bondage........

255

Hebrews vi: 20.

Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high

priest, etc..

257

Hebrews ix: 27. It is appointed unto men once to die

52, 211