e of teaching permanently.

The following year, he became connected with Rev. William C. Woodbridge,
and continued to labor in the cause of education for several successive
years.

In Jan. 1833, he removed to Boston, and during the winter had a severe
attack of bleeding at the lungs, and other dangerous symptoms. These,
however, passed away; and the great change which, in 1830, had been made
in his physical habits, seemed to be working one equally great in his
constitutional tendencies. For while his labors were constant and often
severe, there was a steady gain in health. The strength and elasticity
of youth returned, and, to use his own words it was with him, now,
"morning all day." The effects of an unfavorable climate, which he had
feared, were apparently held in check, and he sometimes said that
"Obedience gave him command over climate, in a great degree." Yet,
during all these years when his health was apparently most firm, it was
kept in this condition only by a rigid obedience to the laws of life and
health, as he understood and expounded them. His precepts and practice
were in harmony.

In the spring of 1848, owing to some unusual exposure, a return of the
cough and other symptoms of his old disease made their appearance.[N]
But, with care, and light labor in the garden, they gradually passed
away, and his usual measure of health returned, and continued, with
slight interruptions, till 1855. During this year he was confined to his
room several months with a broken limb. The change, at his age, from
exercise daily in the open air, to confinement without exercise nearly
all winter, was very unfavorable, in its results, to his general health.
The lungs, doubtless, suffered greatly, and were never able to resist,
as before, the effects of exposure to sudden changes of temperature.

Still he labored on from year to year, untiringly as ever, writing,
lecturing, visiting schools, etc. During the last winter, his time was
employed more exclusively in reading and writing, and he went out less
than usual. His lungs were weak and very easily affected. A difficulty
of breathing after much exertion was frequent. His feet and ankles were
often much swollen, and there was a loss of strength and general
debility quite new to him.

These indications were not to be mistaken, and in the retirement of his
own home he often spoke of the possibility and even probability, that
his earthly labors were drawing to a close.

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