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ADAM AND EVE'S MORNING HYMN.

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answer the miscarriages of his whole past life, and receive there an unalterable sentence, that will doom him to endless and inconceivable joys, or everlasting and inexpressible torments, I think it is not inconsistent either with piety or courage, to look upon so great a change, with something of commotion. Many that would not fear to be put out of the world, will appre hend to be let into eternity.

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ADAM AND EVE'S MORNING HYMN.

THESE are thy glorious works, Parent of Good!
Almighty! Thine this universal frame,

Thus wondrous fair! Thyself how wondrous then,
Unspeakable! who sitt'st above these heavens,
To us invisible, or dimly seen

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In these thy lowest works; yet these declare
Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light,
Angels! for ye behold him, and with songs
And choral symphonies, day without night,
Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in heaven.
On earth, join all ye creatures, to extol
Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Fairest of stars! last in the train of night,

If better thou belong not to the dawn,

Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn
With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere,
While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Thou sun! of this great world both eye and soul,
Acknowledge him thy greater: sound his praise...
In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st,
And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou fall'st.
Moon! that now meet'st the orient sun, now fly'st
With the fix'd stars, fix'd in their orb that flies
And ye five other wandering fires! that move
In mystic dance not without song, resound
His praise, who out of darkness call'd up light.
His praise, ye winds!, that from four quarters blow,
Breathe soft or loud; and wave your tops, ye pines!

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With every plant, in sign of worship wave. >>
Fountains! and ye that warble as ye flow,
Melodious murmurs! warbling tune his praise.
Join voices, all ye living souls! Ye birds,
That, singing, up to heaven-gate ascend,
Bear on your wings, and in your notes, his praise !
Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk
The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep!
Witness, if I be silent, morn or even,

To hill or valley, fountain or fresh shade,
Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. E
Hail, universal Lord! be bounteous stillAN
To give us only good! and if the night
Have gather'd ought of evil, or conceal'd, "
Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

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THE wise man has treasures within himself. The hour of solitude is the hour of meditation. He communes with his heart alone. He reviews the actions of his past life. He corrects what is amiss; he rejoices in what is right; and, wiser by experience, lays the plan of his future life. The great and the noble, the wise and the learned, the pious and the good, have been lovers of serious retirement. On this field the patriot forms schemes, the philosopher pursues his discoveries, the saint improves himself in wisdom and goodness. Solitude is the hallowed ground which religion, in every age, has adopted as her own. There

her sacred inspiration is felt, and her holy mysteries elevate the soul; there falls the tear of contrition; there the heart pours itself forth before Him who made, and Him who redeemed it. Apart from men, you live with nature, and converse with God.

SABBATH.

DEAR is the hallow'd morn to me,
When village bells awake the day;">
And, by their sacred minstrelsy,

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ON THE PROCESS OF VEGETATION.

And dear to me the winged hour,.
Spent in thy hallow'd courts, O Lord!
To feel devotion's soothing power,
And catch the manna of thy word.

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Which swells and sinks, and swells again,
Dies on the walls, but lives to God.

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That holy, heav'nly melody,

The music of a thankful heart.

In secret I have often pray'd,
And still the anxious tears would fall;
But, on thy sacred altar laid,

I The fire descends, and dries them all.

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Oft when the world, with iron hands,
Has bound me in its six-days chain,
This bursts them, like the strong man's bands,
And lets my spirit loose again.

Then dear to me the Sabbath morn;
The village bells, the shepherd's voice;
These oft have found my heart forlorn,
And always bid that heart rejoice.

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Go, man of pleasure, strike thy lyre,
Of broken Sabbaths, sing the charms;
Ours be the prophet's car of fire,
That bears us to a Father's arms.

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ON THE PROCESS OF VEGETATION.

LET us endeavour to illustrate the subject of Vegetation, by taking a view of what happens to a bean after it has been committed to the earth. In a few days,

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sooner or later, according to the temperature the weather and disposition of the soil, the external coverings open at one end, and disclose to the naked eye part of the body of the grain. This substance consists of two lobes, between which the seminal plant is securely lodged. Soon after the opening of the membranes, a sharp-pointed body appears, which is the root. By a kind of instinctive principle, if the expression may be allowed, it seeks a passage downward, and fixes itself into the soil. At this period the root is a smooth and polished body, and has, perhaps, but little power to absorb any thing from the earth, for the nutriment of the germ. The two lobes next begin to separate, and the germ, with its leaves, may be plainly discovered. As the germ increases in size, the lobes are farther separated, and the tender leaves, being closely joined, push themselves forward in the form of a wedge. These leaves take a contrary direction to that of the root: they seek a passage upward; which, having obtained, they lay aside their wedge-like form, and spread themselves in an horizontal direction, as being the best adapted for receiving the rain and dew. The root, every hour increasing in size and vigour, pushes itself deeper into the earth, from which it now draws some nutritive particles. At the same time the leaves of the germ, being of a succulent nature, assist the plant by attracting from the atmosphere such particles as the tender vessels are fit to convey. These particles, however, are of a watery kind, and have not in their own nature a sufficiency of nutriment for the increasing plant. Vegetables, as well as animals, during their tender state, require a large share of balmy nourishment. As soon as an animal is brought to life, the milk of its mother is supplied in a liberal stream; the vegetable lives upon a similar fluid, though differently supplied. For its use the farinaceous lobes are melted down into a milky juice, which as long as it lasts is conveyed to the tender plant, by means of innumerable small vessels, which are spread through the substance of the lobes; and which, uniting into one common trunk, enter the body of the germ, and thus supply that balmy liquor, without which the plant

CHILI AND SCOTLAND. THE BIBLE A RULE OF LIFE. 115 must inévitably have perished, its root being then too small to absorb a sufficiency of food, and its body too weak to assimilate it into nourishment. Thus admirable and well contrived is the method of Providence, in supporting the plant in its earliest and tenderest stages! As the plant increases in size, the balmy juice diminishes, till at last it is quite exhausted. The trunk of small vessels then dries up, and the external covering of the seed appears connected with the root in the form of a shrivelled bag. In the process of vege tation there is no mortality. From the moment that the seed is lodged in its parent earth, the vegetative soul begins its operations, and in the whole successive gradation of them, illustrates the wisdom, power, and bounty of Him, who created and rules the universe.

CHILI AND SCOTLAND COMPARED.

LIBERAL, not lavish, is kind nature's hand,
Nor was perfection made for man below;
Yet all her schemes with nicest art are plann'd,
Good counteracting ill, and gladness woe.
With gold and gems, if Chilian mountains glow,
If bleak and barren, Scotia's hills arise;
There, plague and poison, lust and rapine, grow,-
Here, peaceful are the vales, and pure the skies,
And freedom fires the soul, and sparkles in the eyes.

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SCRIPTURAL knowledge is of inestimable value on account of its supplying an infallible rule of life. To the most untutored mind, the information it affords on this subject, is far more full and precise than the highest efforts, of reason could attain. In the best moral precepts issuing from human wisdom, there is an incurable defect in that want of authority whic robs them of their power over the conscience; they are obligatory no farther than their reason is perceived. A de

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