364 MEMORIAL OF JOSEPH HENRY. 



and seemed endowed with the power of excluding from his mental 

 vision all irritating incidents. In that benignant breast there 

 harbored no resentments. 



Great as is the loss we have sustained of "guide, philosopher, 

 and friend," we have yet the mournful satisfaction of reflecting 

 that his influence, powerful as it always has been for good, still 

 survives in his works, his high example, and his unclouded 

 memory; that our community, our country, the world itself, 

 has been benefitted by his existence here; and that as time rolls 

 on, its course will be marked by increasing circles of appre- 

 ciation, reverence, and gratitude, for the teachings of his high and 

 noble life. 



