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have gone! never to return, but still his thoughts
linger around the paternal fircsiue, the bed in
which he slept, nnd the room whcrt~ he joined
in his mother's prayers. Let me ask tho$C advanced
in life, if this he not fiO. You remember
thc very fonn of gron.'S long ~iUl:e cut
down, of hooks long ~ince read 1 of clas:imates
long since gone, ond of ministers long since in
the grnsc. It is of your memory of the OC',currences
of last week and yesterday that you
complain, ami not of your memory of eVCIlRs
a generation agu_ rrhcsc arc all vi"itl aHd
fre.'3h.
,\Vhatever may vc ::;aitl of the kt.ttcr stages
of lifl~, its commencement will ICfi\'c traCC3
never to be worn out. Tl (' intellect i....
now.
takiug a ~hajJe, and the nftections receiving a
lexturl', anu the iwlivi(lual nct... turning into
hahit.~1 which! if somcwhat modified by after-
'3cenes and impressions, arc seldom Ycr)' c~:::cntial1y
chnnged. rrhi~ is the point from which
men :start) nud it generally detcrmines their
whole future cour.:oc. nere the pnth i~entered
upon, whiclJ lead~ to virtue or vice honor or
infalllY! lwnvcn or llCll. Ld the l;lOther vf