Religious Lectures On Peculiar Phenomena in the Four Seasons Delivered to Th
Religious Lectures On Peculiar Phenomena in the Four Seasons Delivered to Th
Edward Hitchcock
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It ^ only a change of state, and not the extinction of life. The trees have merely put off their summer robes, be- 96 MAN DIES cause inappropriate for the sterner climate of winter. Life does, indeed, seeni to have departed. But we know that its germ is yet unextinct ; and that there shall come, — and that ere long, — a resurrection day. The icy grasp of winter shall be relaxed ; and then shall the mysteri- ous principle of life again develope its marvelous pow- ers, in weaving a new and loveli...er robe to grace the fair form of spring. See now in these changes a striking analogy to those through which man passes on his way to immortality. As disease fastens upon him, or old age creej)s on, his beauty and glory are, indeed, marie io consume away like the moth. The rose flies from his cheek, — his senses become dull, — his brain torpid, — and all the wheels of life move slow, because the vital energies are failing. And even the mind seems to partake of the general de- cay. However tenacious of their hold, the powers of life may be, we know that ere long they must yield, and onan's gloiious heauty become as a flower.
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