JULY. 117 



sources of enjoyment. And may it not be that life it- 

 self is but a season in the revolving year of eternity, the 

 vernal season of our immortality, that leads not round 

 and round in a circle, but onward, in an everlasting 

 progression, to greater goodness and greater bliss, un- 

 til the virtues we now cherish have ripened into eternal 

 felicity ? 



