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Excerpt from Eagles' Wings: A Baccalaureate Sermon, Delivered at Williamstown, Ms., August 1, 1858
Have we then, here, an exception to the great law of decay? Is there any thing that begins to be, and grows, that does not reach an appointed limit, and then go back! Is not the daily move ment of the sun in the heavens the fit emblem of every living thing that he looks upon in his cir cuit? He comes out of his chamber in the morn ing; he climbs the eastern sky; he reaches his meridian height, and then declines to his setting. So it is with every blade of grass, with every shrub, with every tree; so with every insect and animal from the animalcule to the elephant; so it is with the physical system of man, and so with his mental faculties. And not only do change and decay affect every organized being, but also the empires of men and their monuments, and even the face of nature itself. And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place; the waters wear the stones; thou washest away the things that grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
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