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Title: Mount Auburn: its scenes, its beauties, and its lessons
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Flagg, Wilson, 1805-1884
Subjects: Mount Auburn Cemetery (Watertown and Cambridge, Mass.)
Publisher: Boston, Cambridge, J. Munroe and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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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 Channina; 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 CHAXNi>rG, 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, 1842, While on a journey at Bennington, Vermont. On the other side are these words — In Memory op William Ellery Channing, Honored throughout Christendom For his eloquence and courage in maintaining and advocating The great cause ofTruth, Religion, and Human Freedom, This Monument is gratefully and reverently erected By THE Christian Society of which, during nearly forti years, He was Pastor.
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FUNEREAL EMBLEMS AND DEAICES. 187 FUNEREAL E31BLEMS AND DEVICES. There are many trutlis not explained by pliilosopliy,nor demonstrable by reason, which may be illustratedin a pleasing manner by emblems. Science does notteach us all we wish to know, and imao-ination 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 afford 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, and to impress itwith a

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