A wise man in our time caused to be written on his tomb, 'Think on Living.' That inscription describes a progress in opinion.

Cease from this antedating of your experience.

Sufficient to to-day are the duties of to-day.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of the hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it." Such was the burden of Emerson's message: make the very best of life; let not the present be palsied by fears for the future.

A healthy, sane message, a loud clear voice in the wilderness of doubt and fears, the very loudest and clearest voice in matters spiritual and intellectual which America has yet produced.
It was during the days of his service in East Lexington that he went to Providence to deliver a course of lectures; while there he was invited to conduct the services in the Second (Unitarian) Church.