228 CANON SAUMAREZ SMITH, B.D., ON PRACTICAL OPTIMISM. 
the adage about the tendency of bad things towards good really embraces 
almost all that has been said. We have seen this in nature, and in the 
lessons we are able to draw from our own experience, as well as in those we 
have derived from the Hebrew and subsequent revelations. I refer to the 
proverb, mors janua vite—death is the portal of life. 
The Meeting was then adjourned. 
