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number of willing witnesses that have been profited by 

 his advire. 



The work he now offers to the public for their perusal 

 and benefit, is one of the great efforts he has made to do 

 good (after his physical strength had failed him), by 

 giving to the world the result of his experience, for which 

 I hope he will be justly compensated. He has lived to 

 witness the important changes and inventions of about 

 one-half of the nineteenth century, which has been one of 

 the most progressive ages, in many respects, on record. 

 And he has not been an idle looker-on during all this 

 time, but has seemed to profit by the advantages offered 

 him, by cultivation of the mind and endeavoring to keep 

 pace with this age of rail roads, steam and telegraphs. 



That man is the impression of a superior power is just 

 as evident to him as the letters used in forming the songs 

 of Zion were made by the types that preceded them. 

 But of his further voyage on earth there is no witness 

 save the Infinite and Eternal. But we may listen to what 

 the poet has to say: 



Our author delighted in music and song, 

 ■ (And the music of nature is surely not wrong.) 

 From the chaunting of birds and the humming of bees, 

 To the song of the maid in the shade of the trees. 



The clarionet's tone, and t^^e horn and the harp, 

 (To I anish bad spirits and leave a light heart), 

 Would revive him at once for the task of the day, 

 In training his chargers for work or for play. 



The discoveries he made remain yet to be told, 

 And can scarcely be measuied by silver or gold, 

 Yet the fame that is due for such work of the mind. 

 Is a debt that comes slow from the most of mankind. 



