Vermont Phœnix

A Beautiful Passage.-We take the following beautiful passage from Mr. Webster's eulogy upon Jeremiah Mason:

"But sir-political eminence and professional fame, fade away and die with all things earthly. Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. They remain. Whatever of excellence is wrought into the soul itself, belongs to both worlds. Real goodness does not attach itself merely to this life, it points to another world. Political or professional fame cannot last forever, but a conscience void of offence before God and man, is an inheritance for eternity. Religion, therefore, is a necessary, an indispensable element in any great human character. There is no living without it. Religion is the tie that connects man with his Creator, and holds him to his throne. If that tie be all sundered, all broken, he floats away a worthless atom in the universe, its proper attractions all gone, its destiny thwarted, and its whole future nothing but darkness, desolation and death. A man with no sense of religious duty is he whom the Scriptures describe-in such terse but terrible language-as 'living without God in the world.' Such a man is out of his proper being, out of the circle of all his happiness, and away, far, far away from the purposes of his Creator."