He has therefore endeavored to preform the service, and hopes it will meet the approbation of those for whom it is designed. The kind, tender, and scripturally affectionate style of Mr. Jay cannot fail to sooth the wounded heart. Aside from the immediate teaching and awakening convictions of the Holy Spirit, perhaps no event more powerfully impresses the mind with the certainty of an invisible world that the death of friends. We cannot believe that the minds with which we have enjoyed happy communion and intercourse have become extinct with the dissolution of the body. We have seem the light of intelligence beam from their eye, we have felt their sympathies in our adversities, and we have known that their hearts have rejoiced with us in the various seasons of our prosperity.