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THOUGHTS ON IMMORTALITY.
THE 'RICH POOR MAN:' A FRAGMENT.
AN EVENING HYMN.
THE DOOMED SHIP.
THE DEITY.
MIND OR INSTINCT.
OCTOBER.
THE INFLUENTIAL MAN.
THE BROKEN VOW.
CHRONICLES OF THE PAST.
SUNDAY AT PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS.
THE TOP OF NEW-YORK.
THE BIRTH-DAY.
THE EXILE'S SONG.
THE ELEMENTS OF A RELIGIOUS CHARACTER.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
SKETCHES OF EAST-FLORIDA.
SEED OF CONTENTMENT.
TO A FAYRE PERSONNE
THE QUOD CORRESPONDENCE.
THIS TO THEE, LUCY.
NATURE'S MONITIONS.
GRAVE THOUGHTS ON PUNCH.
HER NAME.
THE STORY OF ABUL CASSIM'S SHOES.
TO A HUMMING-BIRD.
LITERARY NOTICES.
EDITOR'S TABLE.
LITERARY RECORD.
Vol. XXII. NOVEMBER, 1843. No. 5.
There are those who reject the idea of a future state; or, at least,who deny that they ought to be convinced of its reality, becausereasoning, in the method of the sciences, does not appear to proveit to them; although they acknowledge how natural it is for man toanticipate a future existence. I have thought that such personsmight be included in a similitude like the following. Let us supposea young bee, just returning from his first excursion abroad,bearing his load of honey. He has been in a labyrinth of variousdirections, and far from his native home; winding among trees andtheir branches, and stopping to sip from numerous flowers. He haseven been taken, by one bearing no good-will to the little communityof which he is a member, and carried onward, without beingpermitted a sight of the objects which he passed, that he mightestimate aright his new direction. Notwithstanding, he is winginghis way with unerring precision to the place where his little load isto be deposited. Not more exactly does the needle tend to thepole, than the line he is drawi