a 1 511 CONCLUSION. tacle of departed glory. Still more of is it to contemplate in the volume of history the destruction of Carthage, of Babylon, of Memphis, whose very ruins are no longer to be found ! Flow affect- ing to meditate on ancient Troy, whose very scite can no longer be determined ! Yet here no wonder mixes with our solemn feelings. All these noble monu- ments of human grandeur were made of destructible materials ; they could not, from their very nature, last for ever. But to a deeply-reflecting mind, what is the ruin of temples, towers, palaces, and cities, what is the ruin of " the great globe itself," compared with the destruc- tion of one soul meant for immortality- a soul furnished by its bountiful Creator with all the means for its instruction, sanctification, redemption, and eternal bliss ? - And what presents the most mournful picture to us, and is in itself the most dreadful aggravation, is, that its consciousness cannot be extinguished ; the thought of what he might have been
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