°1. See Opposite. 2. Parker, foel, "A Charge to the Grand Jury, upon the Importance of maintaining the Supremacy of the Laws; with Brief Sketch of the Charac ter of Wm. M. Richardson, etc. Concord, N. H. 1838. Delivered at the Buneral of HON. WILLIAM M. RICHARDSON, ON THE 26TH DAY OF MARCH, A. D., 1838. BY REV. JONATHAN CLEMENT, PASTOR OF THE CONGREGATIONAL PARISH IN CHESTER, N. H. PUBLISHED BY REQUEST OF THE CITIZENS OF CHESTER. CONCORD, N. H. PRINTED BY ASA M'FARLAND, OPPOSITE THE STATE HOUSE. 1838. DISCOURSE. ECCLESIASTES XII.: 7. THEN SHALL THE DUST RETURN TO THE EARTH AS IT WAS; AND THE SPIRIT SHALL RETURN UNTO GOD WHO GAVE IT. IT needs not the announcement of these words of Holy Writ, at the present time, to convince us that all flesh is grass, and the goodliness thereof as the flower of the field. We have before us the affecting memorials of human frailty. The deep solemnity on the minds of all around us; the tears and sighs of the mourners; the sympathy of surviving friends; these are the voice of God, saying to every one of us, "dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” We take our journey through life in far different ways. Some keep the lowly vales of life, and are known only to a few friends and acquaintances; others fill a large space in the knowledge and estimation of their fellow-men; yet all alike follow the same destination, every one in his turn saying "to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister." We are always instructed by death; and he who quits this earthly stage, for one of far other magnitude, has a lesson in his departure for his respective circle of acquaintances. The death of Judge RICHARDSON, which now arrests our attention, is felt severely by an extensive circle of endeared |