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circle of the eartli— j our d)-iim3 will roll louder (lian hia., Go 

 on, the work is honest, is honorablo ; your heads and hands were 

 formed to invent, to judge, to decide, and to labor. Under the 

 great command of God, let there be "action, action, action," with 

 perpetual reference to his will ; do it lor the good of your brother, 

 and to the glory of the Almighty. 



Among many important new things you see in this exhibition, 

 one v;ill probably be eminent. The royal premium of |3j000, 

 placed in the treasury of the American Institute by Mr. Ray, has 

 brought here numerous inventions for safety and comfort in rail- 

 road travel. There is strong hope that by their means the hazard 

 of that delightful mod© of travelling will be reduced to zero, 

 while the comfoi't will rise to the Indian summer. 



And you will not fail to remember your hall of Americau 

 fruits. I have never seen so large and so excellent a collection. 

 I could not help w^'.ispering a question in th-^ ear of her servant, 

 Peter B. Mead, whether Pomona herself had not beon with us on 

 this oecasioji for once. i 



Add on to my life another lease as long, and I shall see, (un- 

 less there shall be among us gin enough to turn the will of the 

 AliX'ighty against us,) such a Lingdora as no human imagination 

 has ever cojiccivtHlj or can now conceive. Strain your eyes to 

 the futiirej as lioss k Craig do througli their luige telescopes on 

 "unformed malttr, on the nebula of unfuthom.-dde distance ; you 

 cann-'t make it out ; but you are bound by every tie that binds 

 you to God, to yi;Ui'>clt', lo wife, children, and fellow-citizens, to 

 work it all out, tiie vejy best way you Cclu. And the hour will 

 come in which you will look tack with rapture to your ou'n ac- 

 tion in such a glorioua seme ; one wlilch will embrace about eight 

 Chinas, of a thousand miles ;5quarc each, and ail tilled with schools 

 for temporal knowledge, and a temple to God for every thousand 

 souls — 0?, look at it — som.^ ttvo millions of chrklinn churchtsl 



