●   ●   ●    learned to judge of events, not by their appearance, but by the principle that regulates them, the picture of human life, when surveyed dispassionately, presents nothing which excites in him either horror, or disgust. He views it as the results of necessary laws established in mercy; and with a firm reliance on that Power which formed a universe from chaos, and out of darkness called up light, he looks forward to that day when confusion shall be reduced to order, and man, disenthralled from his passions, shall rise to the destiny that awaits him.