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support and encouragement to our younger friends; for, al¬ 
though there may be in their contributions much that arises 
from want of experience and opportunity of observation, 
time will cure all this, since “ideas are like beards—men 
are not born with them. They are acquired by age.” To such 
we say—Persevere; for actuated by praiseworthy motives, 
and a love of the profession you have chosen, you cannot fail 
of success. 
And now to draw this address to a close. It will be con¬ 
ceded that the retrospect is cheering, and we believe the 
prospect is no less so. Some little good we trust we have 
been instrumental in doing, even if it be only in continuing 
a work so nobly begun, and respecting the value of which 
most unequivocal proofs have been given us by the increased 
support of the profession. As we have commenced, so we 
intend to continue. Our confidence is unabated, because 
our resources have become more numerous. May there be 
no disappointment. 
As heretofore, from month to month we have been called 
upon to record the departure hence of many with whom we 
were once associated. In the language of Longfellow, we 
may say— 
“ ’Twas at thy door, 0 friend! and not at mine, 
The angel with the amaranthine wreath, 
Pausing, descended, and with a voice divine. 
Whispered a word that had a sound like Death. 
“ Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, 
A shadow on those features pale and thin; 
And softly, from that hushed and darkened room, 
Two angels issued, where but one went in.” 
Yet soon the like visit will be paid to us. May we then 
be enabled, in the full assurance of faith, to say— 
“ Enter.thou obscure. 
Grand angel—not of ill; 
Come thou but once, and then, whene’er thou come, 
Glad, we’ll go home.” 
