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MEMOIR OF
The Bridge.
The Bridge.

The Bridge.

CHAPTER IV.

Elizabeth's premature death.

"I am the resurrection, and the life."—John xi. 25.

In bringing the history of this dear child to a close, it is now my painful task to record the affecting circumstances that attended her death. Perhaps some young persons may wonder what disease carried her away in the spring-time of life to an early grave. Well do I remember telling her one evening of the sudden death of a neighbour, and, endeavouring to improve the circumstance, remarked how necessary it was for young and old to be prepared for death, as we did not