O lead me to that happy path, Cheer'd with thy converse, I can trace Through all the gloom, one smile of thine Nor shall I, through eternal days, Thy hand, that now directs my course, I ask not Enoch's rapturous flight Joyful my spirit will consent To drop its mortal load; And hail the sharpest pangs of death, JOY AND PROSPERITY FROM THE PRESENCE AND BLESSING OF GOD. BY DR. DODDRIDGE. SHINE on our souls, eternal God, Did we not raise our hands to thee, With thee let every week begin, With thee each day be spent ; Thus cheer us through this desert road, And Heaven refresh our weary souls * Salute or welcome. THE GLORIFIED MARTYRS. "The noble army of martyrs praise thee." They who, in the fiery flame, They who wander'd sad and lone, They who in the desert rude They who 'neath the ocean wave Taught not to abjure their God; They, for Heaven was their avenger, They have vanquish'd through His blood. Noble is the band, and strong; Theme of ev'n angelic song: Lofty are the lays that rise; Hallow'd, thrilling symphonies! Thousand, thousand mingled voices Swell the everlasting strains; Heaven in all its courts rejoices, Glory fills its radiant plains. Kingston, Jamaica, 1841. Roche, Printer, 25, Hoxton-square, London. ADELINE. JERUSALEM is situated between thirty and forty miles eastward of the sea-coast. From the point opposite to Jerusalem, the coast inclines so much to the eastward, that the Syrian Tripoli, about two hundred miles to the northward, on the coast line, is nearly due north of Jerusalem. Tripoli is in 34° 30' north latitude, and 35° 45′ east longitude, and lies south-east of the eastern end of Cyprus. We give these particulars, to enable the young geographer to find more readily the place of the celebrated "cedars of Lebanon." Lebanon is a mountain-range, running in a northerly direction parallel with the coast from a point a little to the northward of Tyre, the distance varying from twenty to thirty miles. Parallel with this range, and at a similar distance, is a second, called Anti-Lebanon, from its position. Across this, to the east is the plain on which stands the city of Damascus. From Tripoli to Damascus the distance, in a direct line, is about eighty miles, rather to the southward of south-east. On the route from Tripoli to Damascus, the traveller nearly passes the cedar-grove of Lebanon, distant about thirty or forty miles from the former place. As he is crossing the upper range of the mountains, in order to reach the valley lying between Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, (and in which stand, still on the VOL. VI. Second Series. R |