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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
form our allotted task ; each endeavouring satisfactorily to 
fill the niche appointed for him ; remembering that this is 
only as the embryo state of our existence — the chrysalis or 
pupa stage. Soon shall we ce shuffle off our mortal coil/ 5 and 
being perfected, bask in the sunshine of knowledge and of 
truth ; while the disenthralled soul, untrammelled by the 
things which bound it to earth, will soar to heights of mind- 
satisfying and transcendant thought, to us unknown in this 
our present condition. There we shall be for ever learning, 
and still having much to learn ; for who or what can compre- 
hend the infinity of Wisdom ? With all our expanded powers 
of mind, even when the liberty thereof has become complete, 
it must still be finite ; its limitation being its power of com- 
prehension, and this only. 
Such an eternal existence lies before us, and to it we are 
hastening fast as the wheels of time can carry us, although 
some may heed it not, and others not desire it. 
Many of those who are gone before us will be enshrined in 
our memories, and the poet has beautifully said, — 
“ To live in hearts we leave behind 
Is not to die.” 
The good die not : they only change their nature and their 
place ; leaving a transitory state of existence for an enduring 
one. Do we then, — 
“ Speak man immortal ? All things speak him so. 
Much has been urged ; and dost thou call for more ? 
Call ; and with endless questions be distressed ; 
All unresolvable, if Earth is all.” 
ON LIEE ASSURANCE. 
We trust it will not be considered by our numerous 
readers an unworthy mode of making our advent to a new 
year that, with our hearty congratulations to our friends, and 
our best wishes for their happiness and success in life, we 
are led to indulge in some reflections which, notwithstanding 
that they partake of a more sombre character, will, in the 
end, be found productive of pleasure of a lasting and per- 
manent character. We allude to the uncertainty of human 
life, as manifested by our obituary. And while we contem- 
