pestilence (the cholera) were eager to offer on his tomb their last tribute of affection and admiration."

Affecting exclamation! So many things remain to be done! And they were of course left undone. The stern messenger of heaven had received his commission to arrest the philosopher, and was allowed no discretion in executing it; turning a deaf ear therefore to the wishes of Cuvier for a respite, seconded though they were by those of the whole scientific world, he carried off his illustrious victim to the tomb. O what a comment upon the words of the wisest of men, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest." ECCLES. 9, 10. Reader, when death comes, may this not be your exclamation in reference to the GREAT WORK, the work of your salvation. Yet how common a case is this!

What multitudes are surprised by the last enemy, with not only many works of time unfinished, but the work for eternity not even begun!

How many, when the hand

of death has been suddenly laid

upon them, have started with amazement and horror from their neglect of salvation, only to be convinced that it was too late then to attempt it, and that they had made a mistake "at once infinite and irreparable; and had been guilty of an infatuation, which it will require cternity to deplore and eternity to comprehend."

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MEMOIR OF CLEMENTINE CUVIER.

AS CONTAINED IN THE LETTER SENT TO THE EVANGE

LICAL MAGAZINE FOR FEBRUARY, 1828.*

DEAR SIR,

Paris, January 11, 1828.

I SEND you, as I promised, some account of the character and death of Sophia Laure Clementine Cuvier, daughter of the celebrated Baron Cuvier, who was taken from us last September. We had hoped much from her piety, talents, and zeal; but she was prepared for higher enjoyments and

* Some of the particulars contained in this Letter have already been generally alluded to in the foregoing account, taken from the Edinburgh Review, the writer in which acknowledges to have received them from the Archives du Christianisme, a French periodical, devoted to the cause of Evangelical Religion, and to which the account of Clementine was no doubt furnished by the same hand that sent it to the Evangelical Magazine.

more perfect services than those with which I had associated her; and though removed from the sphere in which she promised to be so useful, at the early age of twentytwo, her departure has left an impression as profound and as salutary as might have been produced by many years of active and successful exertion. The frame of Clementine was never robust; in her childhood her health was delicate; but her mind displayed a precocious vigour; when very young she preferred study to play, and always evinced a desire for improvement, which triumphed over all that is repulsive in serious occupations to the ardour and gaiety of youth. When only thirteen years of age, she accompanied her father to England; and an accidental circumstance revealed the habits of her mind, and the disposition of her heart, at that early age. She lost a book of prayers, which she was accustomed to use; it was found