We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh, and only the spark of the spirit will remain,--the impalpable principle of light and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature: whence it came it will return; perhaps again to be communicated to some being higher than man--perhaps to pass through gradations of glory, from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph!
Le temps viendra, bientôt, je l'espère, où nous nous dépouillerons de nos enveloppes corruptibles; alors l'avilissement et le péché nous quitteront en même temps que notre incommode prison de chair; alors il ne restera plus que l'étincelle de l'esprit, le principe impalpable de la vie pure, comme lorsqu'il sortit des mains du Créateur pour animer la créature. Il retournera d'où il vient.