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SERMON

DELIVERED IN THE OPEN AIR,

AT CUMBERLAND-BASIN, BRISTOL,

ON SUNDAY JULY 28, 1850,

BY

THE REV. NEWMAN HALL, B.A.,

ON OCCASION OF THE RECENT EXPLOSION
OF THE "RED ROVER" STEAM-BOAT.

W. WHEREAT, 17, ST. MICHAEL's HILL, BRISTOL.
LONDON: JOHN SNOW, 35, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

1850.

Price Twopence.-A large reduction will be made by the
Publisher to Purchasers for gratuitous distribution.

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COME TO JESUS. 123rd Thousand. Price 3d., Large Paper 4d., Cloth Gilt 1s.

"IT IS I;" or, The Voice of Jesus in the Storm.

Cloth Gilt 1s.

THE SCRIPTURE CLAIMS OF TEETOTALISM. Price 3d.

Price 6d.,

THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER TRIUMPHING OVER DEATH; a Narrative of the Closing Scenes of the Life of the late WM. GORDON, M.D., F.L.S., of Kingston-upon-Hull. Price 4s., with Portrait.

All the above may be had of W. WHEREAT, St. Michael's Hill.

A SERMON,

ETC.

“MAN GIVETH UP THE GHOST, AND WHERE IS HE ?" JOB XIV. 10.

WHERE are they who, a week ago, were as full of life as we are? Some were returning from visiting their friends at a distance-others were expected by their friends here-others had been spending a happy evening in yonder lovely woods and valleys. Little did they think how near they were to an eternal world! Where are they? The friends they had quitted ask, "Where are they?" Those who in vain

expected them inquire, "Where are they?" The crowds who eagerly rushed together at this point when the dismal tidings spread, anxious for the safety of parent, partner, child, ask, "Where are they?" That working man who, in the morning, went forth to his labour rejoicing in the love of a wife and four children, O, with what anguish he rushes hither, exclaiming, "Where are they?" "In the midst of life we are in death." What event more certain, yet how successfully do men strive to banish it from their minds. God is always teaching us the solemn lesson of our mortality, but we give little heed to it except when some such startling event as this strikes with irresistible appeal on our attention.

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How important the inquiry of the text, "Man giveth up ghost, and where is he?" He is somewhere. Man is not entirely body. Look at him, with all his faculties, his intellect, his conscience, his emotions, his will; look, now, at yonder mangled mass of flesh and bones! Is it the same? Is that a man? It is but the corpse-the shell-the house :

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