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Rh work of years, and the moſt important of all employments. When life advances, if the heart has been capable of receiving early impreſſions, and the head of reaſoning and retaining the concluſions which were drawn from them; we have acquired a ſtock of knowledge, a gold mine which we can occaſionally recur to, independent of outward circumſtances.

The Supreme Being has every thing in himſelf; we proceed from Him, and our knowledge and affections muſt return to Him for employment ſuited to them. And those who moſt reſemble Him ought, next to Him, to be the objects of our love; and the beings whom we ſhould try to aſſociate with, that we may receive an inferior degree of ſatisfaction from their ſociety. But be aſſured, our chief comfort muſt ever ariſe from the mind's reviewing its own operations—and the whiſpers of an approving conſcience, to convince us that life has not ſlipped away unemployed. Rh