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and enjoyment of every creature that came from his 

 hand. 



" That there's a hfe beyond this life I believe, be* 

 cause the Bible says so, and because, to my understand- 

 in', nater everywhere says so. I see the brook always 

 runnin' on, yet never wasted. I see the seasons come 

 and go, the trees blossomin' and renewin' their green 

 coats every year, and know that they always have, 

 from the beginnin' of time. I see and know, that 

 nothing in all the world perishes utterly. I see all 

 this, and I say to myself, the spirit of a man never 

 perishes — ^it must be indestructible as the things thai 

 go to make up his body. I see, too, man standin' at 

 the head of all created things. The earth, the air, and 

 the water, and the things that belong to them, all 

 made subject to his will, and provided for bis use. I 

 look upon the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all 

 Yigntin' his path, and all the mighty universe spread 

 out above and around him, and I say to myself, it 

 can't be that all this was made, that man might just 

 look upon and admire them — feel for a little time 

 their benefits, and then lay down and perish utterly. 

 It can't be so ; there must be something above and be- 

 yond this life, and the spirit of a man must survive for 



