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is impossible that they shall ever be satisfied ? Is 

 his whole constitution a cheat ? Shall every other 

 part of nature show the Creator's love to man, by 

 the provisions that are made for his wants, but here 

 in his highest aspirations and interests, shall he be 

 mocked with delusions ? We cannot believe this. 

 It is contrary to the whole analogy of nature, con- 

 trary to every w<>rk of the ' which we have 

 thu If thi-- '" of man, :sJio is 

 a lorcr of truth, then man must be immortal. There 

 must be a CODSCioilS -r him after this life. 

 Nor can we SCC how the tii COtne when 

 it will !*e more in acOOl -vith his nature for 

 than it is now. Grant a 

 future life, and the ^reat enigma of the present life 



Ived ; m ,iud nob 



work of ( iod. 



have no\\- ti ! of a ( Creator in all 



Mi- \Ve have not on <>f pow- 



lom, and skill, in the relation- 

 world, but we h that all the powers of man 

 wisely balanced. His intellectual and moral 

 natures ha\ >ns made for them, and 

 still greater provisions are reasonably inferred to be 

 in store for him. In this whole investigation we 

 hav :i/ed a Hein^ having all the higher attri- 

 butes of man, but above him in excellence and con- 

 dition of existence. If this Being were now to 

 throw aside the invisible form of existence and ap- 

 pear as man, as a friend amon^ us, what are some 

 of the questions that we should wish to ask ? If Me 



