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appointed pathway will be terminated—when "it shall wax old as doth a garment, and be changed." But, eternity, properly speaking, has neither beginning nor end. There can be no proportion, therefore, between the longest duration of time and that of eternity. But it becomes us to contemplate that portion of time which is parcelled out to us as individuals, by the Author and giver of life. And how exceedingly small is the part allotted us. In the Adamic age, the life of man was reckoned up by hundreds. Adam, the father of the human race, lived nine hundred and thirty years before he died. Seth, his son, lived nine hundred and twelve years, and he died. Enos, his grand-son, lived nine hundred and five years, and he died: and so the catalogue proceeds in its statement of the lengthened lives of the patriarchs who lived before the flood. But in the time of the Psalmist David, we find human life to be reckoned up not by hundreds as before,