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 ·. man walk on the ocean’s bed and ascend to heights  
‘ ¢' beyond the reach of human habitation.  
  Man has penetrated the hearts of the hills and brought  
  therefrom the rich ores of God. Man has lived to see Q,
  the transformation of the embryonic state of the earth
  into the abode of his race. Man’s inventive mind has  
  made the material globe a ceaseless and expanding ,
  miracle, and now he has before him the language, phil- g
  osophy and religion of every clime. He has at his  n
  command the biography of great heroes at whose signal l
  splendid mansions and stately palaces crumbled down to  
  ’ dust, and upon the bones of their occupants he beholds  
  anew empire of the mighty conqueror. There lie before  
  him the poems of bards of whose song the branches of  
  the trees and waves of the sea grow calm. ,i
  No other age can boast of such a wonderful era as ·`  ‘
’  ours. =i 
  Our astronomers can penetrate abysmal night and g 
  view the suns of other systems.  
gig Our chemists have looked on Nature's brow, have ,  .
  labeled the elements of air and soil and transformed the  
  old into the new. ‘ 
  Our geologists can read the beaitiful stories that are  l
  written in fossiliferous type and proclaim to all the .
  world the battles of the myriads of ages passed. »_E 
  But in all this what do we see but the one great pur-   ·
  pose of our great Preceptor, urging us on to the com-  
  pletion of a higher and nobler life`?  
  Kind classmates, we are now about to enter upon that  
  life which, to us, four years ago, seemed but a vision in  
  fancy, but which, as each succeeding day passed by,  
  became brighter and brighter still until to-day it is il 
  before us as a stern yet beautiful reality. ‘ 
·   As they who look upon the ocean think of its vastness ; ‘ 
,  of the many shores and climes visited by its waves; of _
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