The highest life is a broken column; the fairest life, a tarnished gem; the richest life, an unripened fruit.
This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.
This is life's greatest moment, when the soul unfolds capacities which reach beyond earth's boundaries.
Life! we've been long together
Through pleasant and through cloudy weather;
'Tis hard to part when friends are dear,—
Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear.
Then steal away, give little warning,
Choose thine own time,
Say not "Good-night," but in some brighter clime,
Bid me "Good-morning."
LITERATURE.
A beautiful literature springs from the depth and fullness of intellectual and moral life, from an energy of thought and feeling, to which nothing, as we believe, ministers so largely as enlightened religion.
God be thanked for books! they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levelers. They give to all who will faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
