AN APPROPRIATE HOUR.
John Foster, a noted English essayist and moralist. Born at Halifax, September 17, 1770; died at Stapleton, October, 1843.
The hour just now begun may be exactly the period for finishing some great plan, or concluding some great dispensation, which thousands of years or ages have been advancing to its accomplishment. This may be the very hour in which a new world shall originate or an ancient one sink in ruins.