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Identifier: mountauburnitssc01flag (find matches)
Title: Mount Auburn: its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Flagg, Wilson, 1805-1884. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Mount Auburn cemetery. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Boston and Cambridge, J. Munroe and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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, to this day,not only are roses planted round graves, but it is usual tokeep the graves freshly strewn over for twelve monthswith green herbs and flowers. 16* CHANNINGS MONUMENT. The Monument to William Ellery Clianuina; is situated in YarrowPath. It is wrought in fine Italian marble, from a design by Washing-ton Allston. On one side of the sarcophagus is this inscription : — Here rest the remains of William Ellery Chaining, Born 7th April, 1780, At Newport, R. I. Ordained June 1st, 1803, As A Minister of Jesus Christ, to the Society worshipping God In Federal street, Boston : Died 2d October, 1812, While on a journey at Bennington, Vermont. On the other side are these words — In Memory of William Ellery Channing, Honored throughout Christendom For his eloquence and courage in maintaining and advocating The great cause of Truth, Religion, and Human Freedom, This Monumentis gratefully and reverently erectedBy THE Christian Society of which, during nearly forty years,He was Pastor.
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FUNEREAL EMBLEMS AND DEVICES. 187 FUNEREAL EMBLEMS AND DEVICES. There are many truths not explained by philosophy,nor demonstrable by reason, which may be illustratedin a pleasing manner by emblems. Science does notteach us all we wish to know, and imagination oftensuggests a truth which is too deeply involved in mystery,to be clearly comprehended or fully believed. Religionis half buried in obscurity, and reveals doctrines whichare inexplicable, as heaven itself is invisible and the spir-itual world incapable of being located. Many ideas,connected with the state of our existence hereafter, belongto the same mysterious circle of truths. These ideas arepleasingly illustrated by emblems, which contain intima-tions, not demonstrations of truth, and aftbrd glimpses oflight which has never yet fully irradiated the humanmind. It is for these reasons that emblems are so gener-ally employed to convey to the mind an image of thesouls condition in the future world, aftd to impress itwith a beli

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  • bookdecade:1860
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  • booksubject:Mount_Auburn_cemetery___from_old_catalog_
  • bookpublisher:Boston_and_Cambridge__J__Munroe_and_company
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  • bookleafnumber:235
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