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DEATH S DOINGS.

issued for policies of life assurance, has more thandoubled during the last ten years. After makingevery proper allowance for the increase of popula-tion, this fact is a strong proof of the growth ofkind and moral habits. That man cannot be avery worthless member of the community, whosenatural affection induces him to deny himself all,or many of the luxuries of life, and in some caseseven to abridge what the self-indulgent considerits absolute necessaries, in order that, when he iscold in the grave, his wife, or his children, maybe placed in circumstances of ease and inde-pendence. " Go, and do thou likewise."

W. H. W.