CHAPTER III.
The mind of man is like a moving picture, supplied with objects not only from contemplation on things present, but from the fruitful sources of recollection and anticipation.
Memory retraces past events, and restores an ideal reality to scenes which are gone by for ever.

They live again in revived imagery, and we seem to hear and see with renewed emotions what we heard and saw at a former period.

Successions of such recollected circumstances often form a series of welcome memorials.

In religious meditations the memory becomes a sanctified instrument of spiritual improvement.
Another part of this animated picture is furnished by the pencil of Hope.
She draws encouraging prospects for the soul, by connecting the past and present with the future.

Seeing the promises afar off, she is persuaded of their truth, and embraces them as her own.
The Spirit of God gives a blessing to both these acts of the mind, and employs them in the service of religion.