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will be as spotless as even his re- on high in distant and unpitying manewed nature could desire. Then jesty, brandishing the thunderbolt will Jesus see of the travail of his and scattering dismay. We tell you soul and be satisfied; as the clouds of a God who died to save; who, and the darkness from which He has taking upon Himself the attributes saved and amid which He has pro-and character of a lamb, was at tected His church roll away, and once the example and the sacrifice the brilliant morning (a morning, of fallen humanity. oh! how far brighter than any that ever gilded the mountains of earth) will beam forth and shine more and more unto the perfect day.

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"Behold him, ye Christians! on whose consciences the blood of this innoccnt sufferer has been sprinkled. Having meditated on His sorrows Such, my brethren, are the con-you have striven to imitate His pasiderations which appear to me to tience, and from the difficulty which arise out of the text. They may by you have found in maintaining a besome be thought fanciful; but whe-fitting meekness amid trivial anxther the interpretation that has been ieties, have learned in some mangiven be warranted or not, the ideas ner to appreciate the majesty of that which it has suggested must be patience which your Saviour manipeculiarly cheering to the Christian: fested amid his intolerable and unand happy is the man who amid any known agonies; you delight to see worldly disappointment or mental Him, in faith, now sitting on His depression, using the words accord- throne of universal empire, still ing to the application which has wearing the marks of the conflict in been made of them, can say with confidence, Until the day break and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of frankincense.'

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which he has engaged, and still exhibiting to the Father the wounds he received in your defence. You delight to behold Him; for earth, with all the loveliness of her land"And will you, dear brethren, scapes, the world with its vaunted turn away with listlessness or dis- pomps and gilded fascinations, sodain, while we change the text into ciety with its blandishments and an invitation and say, 'Until the soothing retirements, and science day break and the shadows flee with its manifold and wondrous reaway, get ye to the mountain of sources, have nothing to present to myrrh and to the hill of frankin- you on which you care to gaze one cense,'-while we once more point moment when invited to fix your you to the Lamb of God which eyes upon Jesus. taketh away the sins of the world. Behold the Lamb of God! Ye The sum of our teachings, the end do behold Him, O glorious angels, of our ministry is to direct you to who in all the beauty of holiness Christ; and we would that you cluster round the great white throne; should summon the utmost energy-nay, ye shrink from the dazzling of your understanding, and the spectacle of that glorious Lamb, fullest intensity of your love and fix and veiling with your wings your them upon the Redeemer of the countenances, radiant in immortal world. Behold the Lamb of God! youth, bow reverently before Him, "Behold Him, ye unbelievers! while sweetly from your golden harps we invite you not to look upon a arises the continual anthem of adoraGod like the Pagan divinities, seated' tion. And ye, O blessed spirits,

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who have been ransomed by the the same nature, warmed with the blood of Jesus, and who, having had same hopes, and as fondly attached much forgiven, love the more, with to life as ourselves, have been prewhat eagerness do ye press to the maturely swept into the grave; each spot where stands 'a Lamb as it had of whose deaths has pierced the been slain; prostrating yourselves heart of a wife, a parent, a brother, at His footstool, ye cast your palm- or a sister. How many of these wreaths before Him, and while re-scenes of complicated distress have membering him who suffered so occurred since the commencement much for your sakes, who rescued of hostilities is known only to Omyou from impending ruin, and hav-niscience; that they are innumeraing guided you through the nume-ble cannot admit of a doubt. In rous difficulties and dangers of the some parts of Europe perhaps there world, brought you to that joyous is scarcely a family exempt. Though immortality which it is now your the whole race of man is doomed to privilege to enjoy, ye burst into crics dissolution, and we are all hastening of rapture, and the far receding to our long home, yet at each sucvistas and lofty arches of heaven cessive moment life and death seem ring with your triumphant song, to divide betwixt them the dominion Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.' Amen."

M. N.

THE MISERIES OF WAR.*

of mankind, and life to have the larger share. It is otherwise in war: death reigns there without a rival and without control. War is the work, the element, or rather the sport and triumph of death, who glories not only in the extent of his conquest but in the richness of his spoil. In the other methods of attack, in the other forms which Though we must all die, as the death assumes, the feeble and the woman of Tekoa said, and are as aged, who at the best can live but water spilt upon the ground which a short time, are usually the victims: cannot be gathered up, yet it is im- here it is the vigorous and the strong. possible for a human mind to con- It is remarked by the most ancient template the rapid extinction of in- of poets, that in peace children bury numerable lives without concern. their parents, in war parents bury To perish in a moment, to be hur- their children: nor is the difference ried instantaneously, without pre- small. Children lament their paparation and without warning, into rents, sincerely indeed, but with the presence of the Supreme Judge, that moderate and tranquil sorrow has something in it inexpressibly which it is natural for them to feel awful and affecting. Since the com- who are conscious of retaining many mencement of hostilities, which are tender ties, many animating prosnow so happily closed, it may be pects. reasonably conjectured that not less than half a million of our fellow creatures have fallen a sacrifice. Half a million of beings, sharers of

*Sermon on War, by Rev. Robert Hall.

Parents mourn for their children with the bitterness of despair; the aged parent, the widowed mother, loses, when she is deprived of her children, every thing but the capacity of suffering; her heart, withered and desolate, admits no

other object, cherishes no other close their eyes in death. Unhappy hope. It is Rachel weeping for man! And must you be swept into her children and refusing to be the grave unnoticed and unnumcomforted, because they are not. bered; and no friendly tear to be But to confine our attention to the shed for your suffering or mingled number of the slain, would give us with your dust! a very inadequate idea of the ra- We must remember, however, vages of the sword. The lot of that as a very small portion of a those who perish instantaneously military life is spent in actual commay be considered, apart from re- bat, so it is a very small part of its ligious prospects, comparatively miseries which must be ascribed to happy, since they are exempt from this source. More are consumed by those lingering diseases and slow the rust of inactivity than by the torments to which others are liable. edge of the sword; confined to a We cannot see an individual expire, scanty or unwholesome diet, exposed though a stranger, or an enemy, in sickly climates, harassed with without being sensibly moved, and tiresome marches and perpetual prompted by compassion to lend alarms; their life is a continued him every assistance in our power. scene of hardships and dangers. Every trace of resentment vanishes They grow familiar with hunger, in a moment; every other emotion cold, and watchfulness. Crowded gives way to pity and terror. In into hospitals and prisons, contagion these last extremities we remember spreads amongst their ranks, till the nothing but the respect and tender- ravages of disease exceed those of ness due to our common nature. the enemy. We have hitherto adWhat a scene then must the field of verted only to the suffering of those battle present, where thousands are who are engaged in the profession left without assistance and without of arms, without taking into our pity, with their wounds exposed to account the situation of the countthe piercing air, while the blood, ries, which are the scene of hostilifreezing as it flows, binds them to ties. How dreadful to hold every the earth, amidst the trampling of thing at the mercy of an enemy, horses and the insults of an enraged and to receive life itself as a boon foe! If they are spared by the hu- dependent on the sword! How manity of the enemy, and carried boundless the fears which such a from the field, it is but a prolonga- situation must inspire when the tion of torment. Conveyed in un- issues of life and death are detereasy vehicles, often to a remote dis- mined by no known laws, principles, tance, through roads almost impass- or customs, and no conjecture can able, they are lodged in ill-prepared be formed of our destiny, except receptacles for the wounded and the as far as it is dimly deciphered in sick, where the variety of distress characters of blood, in the dictates baffles all the efforts of humanity and of revenge, and the caprices of skill, and renders it impossible to power. Conceive but for a moment give to each the attention he de- the consternation which the approach mands. Far from their native home, of an invading army would impress no tender assiduities of friendship, on the peaceful villages in this no well known voice, no wife, or neighbourhood. When you have mother, or sister, is near to soothe placed yourselves for an instant in their sorrows, relieve their thirst, or that situation you will learn to sym

terrible as man.

ROBERT HALL.

LORD BACON.

pathise with those unhappy coun- her utmost extent, or more properly, tries which have sustained the ra- divine justice in its utmost severity, vages of wars. But how is it pos- has supplied no enemy to man so sible to give you an idea of these horrors? There you behold rich harvests, the bounty of heaven and the reward of industry, consumed in a moment, or trampled under foot, while famine and pestilence follow the steps of desolation. There the cottages of peasants given up to LORD BACON was the first who the flames, mothers expiring through taught the proper method of studyfear, not for themselves but their ing the sciences; that is, he pointed infants; the inhabitants flying with out the way in which we should their helpless babes in all directions, begin and carry on our pursuit of miserable fugitives on their native knowledge, in order to arrive at soil! In another part you witness truth. opulent cities taken by storm; the He gave a set of rules by which streets where no sounds were heard mankind might deliver themselves but those of peaceful industry, filled from slavery to names, and from on a sudden with slaughter and wandering among fanciful systems, blood, resounding with the cries of and return once more as little childthe pursuing and the pursued; the ren to the school of nature. palaces of nobles demolished, the task he chose was more useful to houses of the rich pillaged, the the world and honourable to himself, chastity of virgins and of matrons than that of being like Plato, or violated, and every age, sex, and Aristotle, the author of a new sect: rank mingled in promiscuous massacre and ruin.

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he undertook to expose the errors of those who had gone before him, If we consider the maxims of war and to shew the best way of avoidwhich prevailed in the ancient world, ing them for the future: he had the or which still prevail in many bar- principal share in pulling down the barous nations, we perceive that old building of a false philosophy, those who survived the fury of battle and with the skill of a superior and the insolence of victory, were architect, he laid the foundation, only reserved for more durable ca- and sketched the plan of another lamities; swept into hopeless capti- fabric; and gave masterly direcvity, exposed in markets, or plunged tions to those who should come in mines, with the melancholy dis- after him,-how, upon the ruins of tinction bestowed on princes and the first, the temple of science ɔn warriors, after appearing in the must be erected anew. triumphal procession of the conquer- great army, there are some whose or, of being conducted to instant office it is to construct bridges, to death. The contemplation of such cut paths along mountains, and to scenes as these forces on us the aw- remove various impediments, so ful reflection, that neither the fury Lord Bacon may be said to have of wild beasts, the concussions of cleared the way to knowledge; to the earth, nor the violence of tem- have marked out the road to truth; pests, are to be compared to the and to have left future travellers ravages of arms: and that nature in little else to do than to follow his

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instructions: he was the miner and Profit (though with drudgery,) they sapper of philosophy, the pioneer hug with close arms. All vices of nature; and he eminently pro-debase man, but this makes a masmoted the dominion of man over ter a slave to his servant, a drudge the natural world. He was the to his slave; and him that God set priest of nature's mysteries: and he taught men in what manner they might discover her profoundest secrets, and interpret those laws which nature has received from the great Author of all.

SHE SMILES ON US.

ANON.

over all this puts under all. Pitiful! that man when good things are present, should search for ill: that he should so care for riches as if they were his own; yet so use them as if they were another's: that when he might be happy in spending them, will be miserable in keeping them: and had rather, dying, leave

covetous, only to possess wealth, that the nobler minds may hate and scorn me. For what is there they esteem more sordid, than for a man's mind to be his money's mercenary? O. F.

THE WORLD'S ENCHANTMENT, WHEN wealth with his enemies, than being alive relieve his friends. Thus, as one aspires the other descends: STRANGE is the enchantment that both extremes, and justly blameable. the world works on us, when she If my estate rise not I hope my smiles and looks merrily: it is justly mind will be what it is, not ambimatter of amazement, for a man to tious nor avaricious. But if the grow rich and retain a mind un- Divine Providence shall, beyond altered: yet are not all men changed either my desert or expectation, alike, though all, in something admit bless me, I will think to grow proud variation. The spider kills the man is but to rise to fall: and to prove that cures the ape. Fortune's effects are variable, as the natures she works upon: some, while their baskets grow more full, their minds are higher and rise they now know not those friends that were lately their companions: but as a tyrant among his subjects grows haughty and proud, so they, among their familiars, scorn and contemn: spurning those with arrogant disdain, which but of late they thought as worthy as themselves, or better: high fortunes are the way to high minds: pride is usually the child of riches. Contempt too often sits in the seat with honour. Who have we known so imperious in office as the man that was born to beggary? As these rise so some fall: and that which should satiate their desire increaseth it; which is ever accompanied with this unhappiness, that it will never be satisfied: this makes them baser, by being wealthier:

ON THE AGENCY OF HEAT.

IN all our excursions over the surface of this globe, innumerable objects excite our admiration and contribute to inspire delight. But whether our gratitude is awakened by the verdure of the earth, the lustre of the waters, or the freshness of the air, it is to the beneficial agency of heat (under Providence,) that we are indebted for them all. Without the presence and effects of heat, the earth would be an impenetrable rock, incapable of supporting animal or vegetable life; the waters

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