PREFACE. It is obvious that very much of the matter contained in a Work like the present must be derived from a great variety of sources, and consequently numerous extracts from the Works and Writings of various Authors are made and acknowledged. G. H. H. O. F. MAN'S DEPARTURE. CHAPTER I. LIFE, DEATH, ETERNITY. "Life, death, eternity, momentous themes WHEN a man is about to travel in a far and unknown country, he studies, with profound attention, the impressions produced on other travellers by even distant views of that land to which he is going to journey. He strives to obtain the best information as to the course he ought to pursue; and, if he is a wise man, he endeavours to enter into the spirit and follow the route of those who, as they approached it, have seen glorious pros A |