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 this earth the leaves long closed, the book long sealed, may be suddenly opened by some marvellous and inexplicable agency, by the sudden shock of a life-peril, by strong mental excitement, by the spiritualizing effect of long illness, or by the sound of the approaching footsteps of the great Summoner. To those who foster the habit of "looking back," the chronicles of that wondrous book furnish a key to the enigma of all the tangled threads in life's web, and the finger of Divine Providence is every hour revealed in their mysterious unwinding