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to feel upon the beginning of every new period of time, as if their Heaven was come- or just at the door- This ought to rouse them to consideration & to awake out of sleep_ We have all just past a period the most important in many respects which we ever saw, & it is certain, we can never see another such- the 18th Hundreth year since crossed out Christs birth is closed- This is the first sabbath in a new century The ending of last century sounds solemn- it is gone: = what lectures of importan... it reads to us- You will bear with me while I hint a few things which naturally revive in the mind on the departure of a period so full of intuition It is observed by One who has obtained the best information that in this healthful climate one half of the number of those who are born into the world die, under twenty years of age, & it is computed that taking the world at large one half of human race die under 17- It is estimated that in ten years more