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and whose shackles he has finally to unloose. The last disease 

 will disappear, we may believe, only when man is perfect ; and as 

 in the presence of the Saviour all disease was healed, so, before 

 perfect virtue, sorrow and suffering shall fade away. Whether 

 the world is ever to see such a consummation no man can say ; 

 but as ages roll on, hope does in some measure grow. In the midst 

 of all our weaknesses, and all our many errors, we are certainly 

 gaining knowledge, and that knowledge tells us, in no doubtful 

 terms, that the fate of man is in his own hands." Let us hope- 

 fully strive to increase that knowledge and so help, each one, to 

 hasten on the time, far distant though it yet appears, when the 

 last disease will disappear and man be perfect ; when " there shall 

 be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there 

 be any more pain : for the former things are passed away." 



CAMBBIDGE: PRINTKD KY C. J. clay, M.A. & RONS, AT THE UNIVEBSITY PBES^S. 



