36-1 MEMORIAL OF JOSEPH HENRY. 



and seemed endowed with the power of excluding from his mental 

 vision all irritating incidents. In that benignan< breast there 

 harbored no resentments. 



Great as is the loss we have sustai I 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 hisrh and 

 noble life. 



