Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.

The name of Abraham Lincoln is imperishable.

Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.