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116 uual tone, falls into apathy. And yet we were made to be happy! But our paions will not contribute much to our blis, till they are under the dominion of reaon, and till that reaon is enlightened and improved. Then ighing will ceae, and all tears will be wiped away by that Being, in whoe preence there is fulnes of joy.

A peron of tendernes mut ever have particular attachments, and ever be diappointed; yet till they mut be attached, in pite of human frailty; for if the mind is not kept in motion by either hope or fear, it inks into the dreadful tate before-mentioned. I have