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_ev. Samuel 14z/ziting. 175<br />

The beloved pastor was buried in the church-<br />

yard at Lynn. The following epitaph was ap-<br />

plied to him by Dr. Mather:--<br />

"In Christo vixi, morior, vivoque, Whitingus ;<br />

Do sordes, morti, cetera, 0 Christe, tibi do."<br />

"In Christ I lived and died, and yet I live ;<br />

My dust to earth, my soul to Christ I give."<br />

Mr. Newhall in his charming and instructive<br />

antiquarian souvenir of the old -churchyard at<br />

Lynn, observes, that,-<br />

"Somewhere within a short distance of that<br />

stained marble shaft, that rises rather ostenta-<br />

tiously beneath the glossy foliage,--though<br />

the precise spot cannot now be pointed out,<br />

must have been laid the dust of the godly<br />

Whiting, who for more than forty years was the<br />

beloved minister of the flock who gathered in<br />

the rude sanctuary reared by the early fathers '<br />

of the plantation. And, during that long<br />

ministry, how many of those who had received<br />

holy instruction and comfort from his lips must<br />

have been gathered to welcome his coming!<br />

No stone marks the spot where he lies in his

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