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from an uncertainty, which I can simply and with ease 

 deduce from a known truth. I am also speaking rather 

 loosely of the particular provision to be made for the 

 soul, and making no allowance for that which must of 

 necessity be made for the body. Be it sufficient that I 

 mention the last, since the proportion which the interests 

 of the body bear to those of the soul must be that which 

 finite bears to infinite. 



' The particular provision which must be made for the 

 soul is, as I firmly believe, specified in those revealed 

 books which compose the Old and New Testaments. 

 The uncertainty to which I refer is the immateriality of 

 the soul. The truth the truths, I should rather say 

 which concern the separate existence of the soul and the 

 resurrection of the body are those of God. 



1 And now I will just conclude, for I become, though 

 very serious, very tiresome, by remarking that, since 

 time past is little more than a shadow, since time com- 

 ing is something less, it is man's true wisdom to entrench 

 himself within himself not in selfishness, it is selfish- 

 ness which prompts him to wander, and in his wanderings 

 to form connections with unfit objects such as earth and 

 stones not in selfishness, but with a love to God greater, 

 and a love to his neighbour equal to that which he bears 

 to himself entrenching himself in a good conscience 

 and a rational (that is, a Scriptural) hope of salvation- 

 perceiving that to himself his own soul is everything. 

 And, dear William, is it not truly everything ? All that 

 to us remains of the past lies in the storehouses of our 

 memories or the books of our consciences ; all the sur- 

 misings which we form of the future are drawn from the 

 experiences of the past, which we have laid up in these 

 storehouses ; while our imaginations sit retired, each in 

 its own recess, drawing pictures of these experiences, and 



