The Dead Are the Living...

...A sermon preached on Lord's day afternoon, October 1, 1843, on occasion of the funeral of Mrs. Mary L., the wife of the Rev. Ward Stafford, A.M. of this city.

Disbound 8vo; 30, (2)pp. Good with tidemark and foxing throughout, small chip to cover toward the bottom spine edge and 1" corner loss from crease.

Sermon after Matthew XXII, 31-32, by Presbyterian minister Samuel Cox upon the death of Mary Stafford, the second wife of Rev. Ward Stafford, alluding to his "twice motherless" children and taking the opportunity to diss Roman Catholics and the Oxford Movement, which he refers to being in the "process and league of Satan" (13). With some decent funerary oration, too. "As soon as the person fell asleep in this world, he awoke in the world of blessedness. His conscious spirit, emancipate from its fallen tenement, and loosed from bondage of the body, flew away and was at home in heaven. He died among men; he was born among angels. Here his life ceased; there it commenced" (12).