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be interred in a private manner, without parade or funeral oration.

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On the 18th December he was laid in the grave, which was a humble vault, as represented in the engraving. Since that time the body has been removed to a new vault, built up in front with brick, and having a small iron door at the entrance. On a small slab is this inscription:

"WASHINGTON FAMILY.”

Below this are the following verses from the Gospel of John, xi. 25, 26:

"I am the resurrection and the life: he that be lieveth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and believeth in me, shall never die"

CONCLUSION.

WASHINGTON was born on the 22d February, in the year 1732, and died on the 14th December, 1799.

Young reader, you have learned why there was cause for joy in his birthday, and for sorrow in the day of his death. If you have been attentive to what you have read of his conduct, from the one day to the other, you know that in childhood he was a lover of truth, and a peacemaker among his schoolmates;—that in boyhood he was a diligent scholar, and the leader of his companionsnot in mischief, folly, or vice,—but in harmless and healthy exercises; and was a pattern of obedience to the wishes of a parent ;-that, when the years of boyhood were passed, he immediately applied to useful purposes the knowledge which he had acquired by attention to instruction; and that early in manhood, he merited the confidence of the government of his native Province, and was intrusted with important and dangerous duties, which he performed with faithful perseverance ;that he used all his talents, and spent almost all his years, from manhood to declining age, in the service and for the benefit of his fellowbeings; and even in old age, was willing to yield the peaceful enjoyments which he loved most, because he thought that it was "the duty

of every person, of every description, to con tribute, at all times, to his country's welfare."

Through all his course of trials and temptations, in adversity or prosperity, he was just, industrious, temperate, honest, generous, brave, humane, modest,—a real lover of his country, and an humble worshipper of God. Was he not worthy of your imitation? Your station in life may be a lowly one, but if your home is even a log hut, you may be, like Washington, a lover of truth, temperate, industrious, just, humane, honest, submissive to the government of your country, and obedient to the commands of God, and grow up to be indeed freemen,-and to enjoy, under the protection of just laws, the comfortable subsistence which in this favoured land you may obtain for yourselves.

But, remember, Washington directed his countrymen to a higher example than his ; he said that he earnestly prayed they might follow that of "THE DIVINE AUTHOR OF OUR BLESSED RELIGION," and the Bible, the sacred book which makes known that example, you should value as the crown of all your blessings; for in it, you may learn how to secure their continuance through this short life, and how to obtain that blissful gift of God, "Eternal life, through Jesus Christ, our Lord."

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

IN CONGRESS, JULY, 4, 1776.

THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

WHEN, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident:-that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to

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