46 MR. proctor's address. 



When man was originally placed in the garden of Eden, 

 in a condition the most favorable for happiness, in the 

 power of Omnipotence to create, he was directed " to 

 dress it and to keep it,"*' by the application of his own 

 labor ; and such has ever been his duty and his privilege, 

 and ever will be, while the laws of nature shall endure. 



