may we believe, that from the things that are made, are clearly seen eternal power and wisdom.

7. When we cast our eyes up to the firmament of heaven, we clearly see that it declares God's handiwork. Here the immense theater of God's works opens upon us, and discloses ten thousand magnificent objects. We dwindle to nothing in comparison with this august scene of beauty, majesty, and glory.

Who

8. Who reared this vast arch over our heads? adorned it with so many shining objects, placed at such immense distances from each other, regular in their motions, invariably observing the laws, to which they were originally subjected? Who placed the sun at such a convenient distance as not to annoy, but to refresh us? Who, for so many ages, has caused him to rise and set at fixed times? Whose hand directs, and whose power restrains him in his course, causing him to produce the agreeable changes of day and night, as well as the variety of seasons?

view.

9. This great Being is everywhere present. He exists all around us. He is not, as we are apt to imagine, at a great distance. Wherever we turn, his image meets our We see him in the earth, in the ocean, in the air, in the sun, moon, and stars. We feel him in ourselves. He is always working around us; he performs the greatest operations, produces the noblest effects, and discovers himseif in a thousand different ways.

10. All parts of creation are equally under his inspection. Though he warms the breast of the highest angel in Heaven, yet he breathes life into the meanest insect on earth. He lives through all his work, supporting all by the word of his power. He shines in the verdure that clothes the plain, in the lily that delights the vale, and in the forest that waves on the mountain. He supports the slender reed that trembles in the breeze, and the sturdy oak that defies the tempest.

Far in 11. His presence cheers the inanimate creation. the wilderness, where human eye never saw, where the

savage foot never trod, there he bids the blooming forest smile, and the blushing rose cpen its leaves to the morning sun. There he causes the feathered inhabitants to whistle their wild notes to the listening trees, and echoing mountains. There nature lives in all her wanton wildness. There the ravished eye, hurrying from scene to scene, is lost in one vast blush of beauty.

12. When you survey this globe of earth, with all its appendages; when you behold it inhabited by numberless ranks of creatures, all moving in their proper spheres, all verging to their proper ends, all animated by the same great source of life, all supported at the same bounteous table; when you behold, not only the earth, but the ocean and the air, swarming with living creatures, all happy in their situation; when you behold yonder sun, darting an effulgent blaze of glory over the heavens, garnishing mighty worlds, and waking ten thousand songs of praise; when you behold unnumbered systems diffused through immensity, clothed in splendor, and rolling in majesty; when you behold these things, your affections will rise above all the vanities of time; your full souls will struggle with ecstasy, and your reason, passions, and feelings, all united, will rush up to the skies with a devout acknowledgment of the existence, power, wisdom, and goodness of God.

QUESTIONS.-1. What is the effect of the vast variety presented in the works of creation? 2. What does the great fertility and beauty of nature naturally lead us to think of our Creator? 3. What is said of the ocean? 4. What, of the handiwork of God, as displayed in the firmament? 5. What objects are mentioned in the last paragraph, as fitted to make us feel and acknowledge the existence, power, wisdom, and goodness of God?

Where is the passage to be found, which is quoted at the beginning of the 1st paragraph? Ans. Romans 1st chapter, 20th verse. Where is the passage which is quoted in the 6th paragraph? Ans. Jeremiah 5th chapter, 22d verse. Are the questions in the 4th paragraph direct or indirect? With what inflection should they be read? With what inflection should the questions in the 3d, 5th, and 8th paragraphs be read?

LESSON LXXXVII.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

PHAL' ANX, dense column.
ARCHED, curved; concave.
DAI' SY, (literally, day's eye) little
flower that opens only in day-

MOLD, shape; form.
GOLD-EM BOSS' ED, ornamented
with various figures, as of gold.
UN RE STRAIN ED, unconfined.

light.

THE DAISY.

L. Not worlds on worlds in phalanx deep,
Need we to prove a God is here;
The daisy fresh from winter's sleep,

Tells of His hand in lines as clear.

J. M. GOOD.

2. For who but He that arched the skies,
And pours the day-spring's living flood,
Wondrous alike in all He tries,

Could rear the daisy's purple bud?

3. Mold its green cup, its wiry stem,
Its fringéd border nicely spin,
And cut the gold-embosséd gem,
That, set in silver, gleams within?

4. Then fling it, unrestrained and free,
O'er hill, and dale, and desert sod,
That man, where'er he walks, may see,
In every step, the stamp of God.

QUESTIONS.-1. What little flower shows the power of God, just as well as the whole world? 2. How does it show this? 3. What is the literal meaning of the word daisy?

LESSON LXXXVIII.

WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING.

VAULT, continued arch,

TOR' RENTS, rapid streams.

DELLS, little valleys.

CLIFFS, steep rocks.

MON' STERS, large animals.

SAVAGE, barbarous; uncivilized.QUELL, assuage; calm.

VIEW LESS, invisible; unseen.

GOD IS EVERYWHERE.

1. (%) Ōh! shōw me where is Hē,
The high and hōly One,

HUGH HUTTON

To whom thou bend'st the knee,
And pray'st: "Thy will be done"?
I hear thy voice of praise,

And, lo! no form is near;

Thine eyes I see thee raise,

But where doth God appear?

Oh! teach me who is God, and where His glories shine,
That I may kneel and pray, and call thy Father mine.

2. Gaze on that arch above,
The glittering vault admire!
Who taught those orbs to move?
Who lit their ceaseless fire?
Who guides the moon to run
In silence through the skies?
Who bids that dawning sun

In strength and beauty rise?
There view immensity!-behold! my God is there;
the moon, the stars, His majesty declare !

The

sun,

3. See where the mountains rise;

Where thundering torrents foam;
Where, vailed in lowering skies,
The eagle makes his home;
Where savage nature dwells,
My God is present too;
Through all her wildest dells
His footsteps I

pursue.

He reared those giant cliffs,-supplies that dashing strearu,

Provides the daily food, which stills the wild bird's scream!

The depths his bounty share,

Where sport the scaly swarm:

Tempests and calms obey the same Almighty voice,
Which rules the earth and skies, and bids the world rejoice!

5. Nor eye nor thought can soar
Where moves not He in might;
He swells the thunder's roar,
He spreads the wings of night.
Oh! praise the works divine!
Bow down thy soul in prayer!
Nor ask for other sign,

That God is everywhere;

The viewless Spirit He-immortal, holy, blessed-
Oh! worship Him in faith, and find eternal rest.

QUESTIONS.-1. What objects in nature are pointed to, in this piece, as displaying the presence and power of God? 2. What exhortation in the last stanza? 3. What is meant by "finny nations"?

What kind of emphasis on thy and mine, 1st stanza? With what tone of voice should most of this poetry be read? Why? See Rem. p. 24.

1. Men become indolent through the reverses of fortune. Surely despondency is a grievous thing, and a heavy load to bear. To see disaster and wreck in the present, and no