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be so strongly impressed with a thought that would 

 not have been sanctioned by the Creator of all 

 thoughts! No; it is not in vain that he has opened 

 his hopes to a future destiny. He quits a world of 

 darkness for a world of light ; he quits misfortune, 

 and frail mortals like himself, to enter on an abode 

 where death is not known. His eyes will no lon- 

 ger be distressed by the sight of distress ; every ob- 

 ject will be replete with content and satisfaction. 

 How great must be the transports of man, when, 

 escaped from the agony of life, he sees the gates of 

 heaven open to him. He is no longer a creature of 

 the dust; he is an angel, a superior being, advanced 

 to an upper region. After remaining, during a sea- 

 son, a slave and in irons, now behold him free, and 

 the possessor of a new domain ! But lately sad and 

 suffering, he dragged his step towards death, and he 

 rises from it full of glory. He inhabited a world 

 covered with funereal cypress, bedewed with tears, 

 where all are subject to change and to death; where 

 we indulge love only to experience suffering, and 

 where we meet our friends only to part with them, 

 He is now transported to an abode where all is eter- 

 nal; his soul is kindled with everlasting love, and he 

 casts, from the height of the firmament, a sympa- 

 thizing look towards his fellow-creatures in thi& 

 tower world." 



FINIS. 



