2. My foemen, Lórd, are fierce and fell;
They spurn me in their pride;
They render evil for my good;
My patience they deride;
Arise! my King! and be the proud
In righteous ruin driven !
Forgive!" the awful answer came
"As thou wouldst be forgiven.!"

3. Seven times, O Lord, I've pardoned them;
Seven times they've sinned again;
They practice still to work me woe.
And triumph in my pain;

But let them dread my vengeance now,
To just resentment driven !

"Forgive!" the voice in thunder spake,

"Or never be forgiven!"

QUESTIONS.—1. What is the object of this piece? 2. What passages, in the Bible, teach the same doctrine?

Why the rising inflection on Lord and King? Note I p 30.

LESSON LXIX.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

DEC' O RA TED, adorned.

DESTINED, appointed; ordained.
AN NU AL, yearly.

DI UR' NAL, daily.
PROG' E NY, offspring.

MIN' IS TER, contribute; serve.
JU' BI LEE, great rejoicing.

VEGE TA BLE, pertaining to
plants.

EN DUED, possessed of; having.
SPEC' TA CLE, exhibition.
IN CENSE, odors of spices and
gums burned in religious rites.
DED I CA TED, consecrated.

THE EARTH BEFORE THE CREATION OF MAN.
BRIDGEWATER TREATISES.

1. The earth was now completely furnished and decorated to receive her destined king and master. The sun, the moon, and the stars, were shedding their kindly influences upon her; she and her fellow planets had commenced their annual and diurnal revolutions; the plants and flowers, her first-born progeny, had sprung out of her bosom, and covered her with verdure and beauty.

2. The fruit and forest trees, flourishing in all their glory of leaf, blossom, and fruit, were ready to minister to the support, comfort, and enjoyment of their future lord: the sea, the air, the earth, were each filled with their appropriate inhabitants, and, throughout the whole creation, was beauty, and grace, and life, and motion, and joy, and jubilee.

3. But still, in the midst of all this apparent glory and activity of vegetable and animal life in the new-created world, there was not a single being endued with reason and understanding; one that could elevate its thought above the glorious and wonderful spectacle to the great Author of it, or acknowledge and adore its Creator.

4. Amidst this infinite variety of beings, there was not a single one which, to a material body, added an immaterial immortal soul; so that there was still a great blank in creation. A wonderful and magnificent temple was reared, and shone in glory and beauty; but there was, as yet, no priest therein, to offer up incense to the Deity to whom it was dedicated.

QUESTIONS.-1. What was the condition of the earth just before the existence of man? 2. What sort of being was needed in order to complete the work of creation? 3. Where, in the Bible, is the account of the creation of man?

LESSON LXX.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

PO LIT IC AL, pertaining to a EL' E MENT, first principle.

nation or state.

DIS PEN SA TION, allotment.
IN TELLI GENCE, knowledge.
PROS PER I TY, success.
GRAND' EUR, greatness.
EX ALT', raise; lift up.
DIG NI FY, make worthy
regard.

TRANS MIT', deliver over.
POS TER I TY, descendants.
IN' DEX, that which points out.
HERALD RY, act or practice of

blazoning arms on ensigns. HELMETS, armor for the head. of AG' RI CUL TURE, farming.

AS SID'U OUS, Constant; untiring.
ELE VATE, raise; exalt.

OP PRESS' OR, one that oppresses.
UN MO LEST ED, undisturbed.
COM PETE', rival one another.

MORAL DIGNITY OF LABOR.

STEPHEN H. TYNG.

1. Human talent, industry, wisdom, and skill, under the favoring blessing of Heaven, must now go forth to sow and to gather in the harvest of the earth. We are teaching lessons of political economy which the world has never heard before. It is a noble dispensation for our country. Other nations may see us, but not with the vines or olives of Italy or France; nor with the oranges and grapes of Spain or Portugal; nor even the rich and glowing verdure, and teeming harvests of England and lowland Scotland.

2. The magnificence of their time-honored architecture we have not attained. And yet there are intelligence, prosperity, dignity, independence, and self-respect marking the laboring classes of our population, which lift us far above all envy of the grandeur and glory of European display. They see that we have a people, flourishing and prosperous beyond comparison.

3. It is the province of America to build, not palaces, but men; to exalt, not titled stations, but general humanity; to dignify, not idle repose, but assiduous industry; to elevate, not the few, but the many; and to make herself known, not so much in individuals, as in herself; spreading to the highest possible level, but striving to keep it level still, universal education, prosperity, and honor.

4. The great element of this whole plan of effort and instruction, is the moral, relative dignity of labor; an element which we are to exalt, in public estimation, in the highest possible degree, and transmit to our families and to posterity, as the true greatness of the country and the world.

5. We are to look at this enlarging elevation of the working classes of men-a fact which may be considered the main index of our age-not as a difficulty to be limited, but as an attainment, in which we greatly rejoice. And, if our heraldry is in the hammer, and the ax, and the awl,

and the needle, we are to feel it a far higher honor than, if in their place, we could have dragons, and helmets, and cross-bones, and skulls.

6. Our country's greatness is to be the result, not of foreign war, but of domestic peace; not of the plunder of the weak, but of the fair and even principles of a just commerce, a thriving agriculture, and beautiful and industrious art. Let us glory in everything that indicates this fact, as an index, also, of our desire for renown. This great lesson-honor to the working classes, in the proportion of their industry and merit-the world will yet completely learn.

7. And, when the great, exalting, leveling system of Christianity gains its universal reign, mountains will be brought down, and valleys will be filled; a highway shall be made for human prosperity and peace-for the elevation, and dignity, and security, of man-over which no oppressor's foot shall pass; the poorest of the sons of Adam shall dwell unmolested and fearless beneath his own vine and fig-tree; the united families of earth shall all compete to acquire and encourage the arts of peace, nation shall not rise up against nation, and men shall learn war no more.

QUESTIONS.-1. With what observations does this piece commence? 2. In what respect are we lifted far above European display? 3. What is the province of America? 4. What is said of the moral dignity of labor in the 4th paragraph? 5. What of "our heraldry" in the 5th paragraph? 6. How does the piece close?

LESSON LXXI.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

BAY O NET, iron spear fitted to
the bore of a gun; dagger.
TENT ED, Covered with tents.
HEROES, warriors; brave men.
BRED, brought up; educated.
VAL' IANT, Courageous; brave.

FOE MAN, enemy in war.
REALM, kingdom; dominion.
SPOIL, booty.

CRAFT, trade; occupation.
DEEM, think; suppose.
COM PEN SATE, pay for.

TRIBUTE TO GENIUS AND LABOR.

1. The camp has had its day of song;

EPES SARGENT.

The sword, the bayonet, the plume,
Have crowded out of rhyme too long

The plow, the anvil, and the loom.
O, not upon our tented fields

Are Freedom's heroes bred alone,
The training of the workshop yields

More heroes true than War has known!

2. Who drives the bolt, who shapes the steel,
May, with the heart as valiant, smite,

As he who sees a foeman reel

In blood before his blow of might!
The skill that conquers space and time,
That graces life, that lightens toil,
May spring from courage more sublime
Than that which makes a realm its spoil.

3. Let Labor, then, look up and see
His craft no path of honor lacks;
The soldier's rifle yet shall be

Less honored than the woodman's ax:
Let Art his own appointment prize,
Nor deem that gold or outward hight
Can compensate the worth that lies

In tastes that breed their own delight.

4. And may the time draw nearer still,

When men this sacred truth shall heed,
That from the thought and from the will
Must all that raises man proceed!
Though Pride should hold our calling low,
For us shall duty make it good;
And we from truth to truth shall go,

Till life and death are understood.

QUESTIONS.-1. By what have the plow, the anvil, and the loom, been too long crowded out of rhyme? 2. How does the writer celebrate the praises of labor in the 2d stanza? 3. What exhortation in the 3d stanza? 4. What prayer in the 4th ?