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WAITT & DOW'S PRESS,

122 Washington-Street.

CONTENTS OF VOL. III,

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'What is your life?' In reference to its duration. Compute, weigh it. It is unsubstantial, shadowy, fleeting; a vapor that appeareth for a little time, then vanisheth away. We are here to day, tomorrow

gone.'

The question may be asked in another and higher

sense.

we to estimate it?

When are we auThese inquiries it is

What is life? How are What is a true description of it? thorised to say, we have lived? important to settle. We must keep in view the great moral purpose of existence; we must consider what we are to live for, how we are to attain the end of our being, that we may not labor and strive in vain, and when death approaches, it may find us prepared for

our rest.

What then is life? To have a being, to breathe, to receive impressions through the channel of the senses,

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