THE WAVE OF SORROW.

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reaches the surrounding towns. The deepest

feeling was manifest and it "seemed as if all the©

citizens were mourners at once.” ‘’All mournedas though one of their own household had fallen.”The church and community and even the countryaround were affected, and afterward gathered atthe funeral with the expression of their regal’dand giving token of the friendship which he hadacquired. Dr. Hubbard was dead. A fragmentof his body was found, and his death was mournedby the vast assemblies which crowded two housesof worship in his village home. When laid awaywith public obserpiies, and by the different ordersto which he belonged, two cities were represented.

And so the wave swept on. It subsided fromthe public gaze, but its effects were felt. Widows,almost crushed, wept in secret for those theyloved, and over their orphaned children, andlifted up their hands in agony of prayer. Theletters as they came to the author only showedhow wide was this silent, this unknown sorrow.

The friends would write from the distant citiesand say, ‘‘how cruel had been the blow,” “howsad the case;” but no one could tell the silent