and so forth! O, thou noble-hearted man of Tish- O, I know no more lovely and attractive phenomena in the kingdom of God than those tenderlystrung souls who cannot speak even of that which the love and near-presence of the Lord imparted to them, but with humility and hesitation, and, deeply penetrated by the sense of their own unworthiness, are held captive by a holy anxiety, lest what can be derived from a free grace alone may be ascribed to themselves and their own godliness. But these moss-roses in the garden of Christ cluster not in the bushes of the groves. Yet, ever and anon, a veiled spirit meets us, which, like unto the flame of the undying lamp at the temple-windows, is enabled by a secret art to wane upon the view, and, like that which once a St. Paul carried about with him, buried in his silent bosom for fourteen years entire, and from the lily leaves of which even the keen air of this world availed not to extinguish that delicate fragrance and enamelled colouring. Would that amongst the thorn-bushes of our community, likewise, many such flowers might still be found. These are the spirits in which the small Church of the holy still find "good will toward men." observed by mortal eye with secret witnesses, who, as if from behind some screening curtain, are to spy out their private actions or feelings. Thus, then, many a holy spirit enters heaven, thinking that none can know of its life, nay, even without itself knowing of the glory that God had cast around it. But when these holy saints are no longer present, then every thing comes forth into the light of day; then the Lord removes the veil from before their life, and, to the praise of this grace, as well as for the encouragement of the brethren, it is made known how mighty was God's strength in their weakness, and all that the Lord hath accomplished in them and through them. Thus they celebrate here below, although themselves no longer present, one day of the resurrection and glorification. The fulness of their unpretending appearance there presents a picture of life, to which for ages a place is insured in the noblest pantheon of the world, in that of the affectionate recollections of pious men. Like unto a radiant crown of stars, their acts inwreath themselves together above their graves, and the unexpected heritage of their works, only now drawn into the light, becomes to thousands a fountain in the desert, out of which they drink encouragement and comfort. If you wish, my brethren, for an example of what has been said, I will remind you only, not to go out of the circle of your own knowledge, of the worthy and much loved Jänike in Berlin, and of the faithful Krafft at Cologne. How many glorious things concerning these two men have burst through the veil of modest concealment, after their departure! What a multitude of the most delightful actions of their life did we not learn for the first time over their graves-never to be forgotten. O, I fervently hope that amongst us, also, there are still many who, like Abel, will only then begin to speak aloud when dead, and who repose, even to this hour, with the fairest bright-side of their life hidden with Christ in God. II. The endeavour of the Tishbite to free himself from his affectionate companion, and thereby to spare him, as much as himself, the pain of a formal parting, was thwarted by Elisha's unfortunate firmness, and so the pair journeyed out of Gilgal together. Their way led first to the little town of Beth-el. When they arrived there, then, it is said, came forth to them the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el, and the same took place when they came to Jericho. Surprising, highly-gratitying meetings were these, especially at a time, too, when faith seemed almost vanished from Israel, and the streets at Zion lay waste. But who, then, were these sons of the prophets? Let me try to answer this question for you in all brevity. Three times at Gilgal, at Beth-el, and at Jericho, with increasing importunity, did Elijah beg of his companion to leave him, as the Lord had commanded him to go here and proceed there. Thrice did Elijah, however, receive the same impressive and decided reply: As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee!" And Elijah, not being able to act otherwise, was obliged to permit the attendance of his intruding friend. And he yielded then so much the more willingly, the more clearly he thought he gathered from his solemn protestation, that, even to him, Elisha, the Lord had Moses, overlooking Israel, called out in inspirarevealed the secret of the coming exaltation, and tion, "Behold, this great nation is a wise and unthat he had received the Lord's command to accom-derstanding people!" He alone can desire to bring pany him on his departure, even to the gates of eternity, perhaps that he might be enabled, as an eye-witness, to announce that miracle afterwards to the world. And such indeed was the case, and exactly on that rested the solemn affirmation, "As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth!" Whatever of the great and glorious the Lord does amongst men, that must not be hid in a corner. In proper time, it must come forth upon the lofty stage, and publish the honour of Him who will fill heaven and earth with the glory of his majesty. Therefore does it chiefly happen that He surrounds his children even there where they believe themselves un the truth of this praise into suspicion who knows only from the school of Athens what civilization is, and is acquainted with no other rule by which to measure men's minds than that which the sublunary illusion of a paganish show-wisdom and genius has placed in his hands. God himself had undertaken, the education, instruction, and enlightenment of the children of Israel. What wonder, then, that from the school of such an artist there should come forth a race amongst whom scarcely any one can open his mouth without a millstone being hung to each one of his words, which drags downwards into im Peo measurable depths; a race which not only carries last ten years, under the visible co-operation of the in its bosom the ideal of all the arts and sciences, divine blessing, have called into existence a newlybut which contains, moreover, in its institutions, awakened faith. The former institutions, like these, the designs and models according to which the owed their origin, in the first instance, to the conAlmighty, in the millenium of his kingdom, will trast of a sad and troublous period of ecclesiastical produce that grand regeneration for which the declension and moral corruption. The barometrical earth, and all that in it is, animate or inanimate, character of the ecclesiastical, as well as spiritual, still waits in expectation. And, since all the in-state of that period, is indicated to us, amongst the stitutions of civil society find in the history of rest, by the decrepit form of the high-priest Eli, this distinguished nation their highest models, so amidst his degenerate, Heaven-forsaken sons. especially do those of education. Elementary in-ple such as these constituted the crown of the stitutions, in the present sense of the term, appear nation, the guardians of the sanctuary. Assistance, not to have been known in Israel; that is, not up immediate and powerful, was therefore greatly to the Babylonish captivity. Instead of these, how-needed, to prevent the moral degeneracy from beever, the home and school were one, and instruction coming general, and the injury of Joseph incurable. streamed from the tender mouths of father and This assistance, God sent in the person of a man mother, as a substitute for hireling lips. Not in who shines as one of the loveliest stars in Israel's vaporous halls, but in the green shade of the vine constellation of heroes; and with his appearance a and the fig-tree, before the door of the peaceful new era of centuries broke over the land of promise. little tent, the infant first learned to lisp the name Samuel was that man, who, uniting in himself the of Jehovah. Here, they exhibited the sacred his-threefold office and dignity of judge, prophet, and tory of the past, set forth in the eloquence of love, priest, seized, at the critical moment, the helm of to its wondering soul. Here were breathed into the sadly threatened vessel of church and state, its innocent heart with inspiring language, the ideas and saved with vigorous hand the sinking crew from and purposes of God, and the ends of human exis-destruction. The serious endeavour now of this tence. Here, too, it early imbibed the eternally true, great reformer was directed to establish a parent good, and beautiful, in the vivid pictures of life; institution, which might contain in itself the germ and, before even it had become aware that its of better generations to come; and, especially, serve term of tuition had arrived, that child was already, as some security to the commonweal that it no amidst its gambols, initiated in the wisdom as well longer should be in want of a succession of comas in the hopes and prospects of Israel; rife with petent rulers and able counsellors. To that end, thoughts which bare in them the germ of idea- he caused the summons to go forth to the pious, creation, teeming with forebodings which sustained diligent, and intelligent young men, to assemble the early-awakened spirit onwards in a constant around him, and, in concert with him, and under struggle, and directed into a way of thinking, feel- his superintendence, to devote their powers to faring, and expectation, which, while it pressed along ther investigation of divine subjects; and that was on high through the clouds of heaven, so it pene- the simple origin of the schools of the prophets, trated forwards equally through the bounds of time, as they were styled; of those valuable and influential even to the remotest millenia; and from which it institutions which were thenceforth the salt of the was but seldom the fortune of a hostile power to land, and formed the crown and ornament of Israel, dislodge the mind, utterly, and for ever. Thus no less than the vein of its life, and the repositories possessed of a national education, in the best and of her spiritual treasures. holiest sense of the word, the young Israelite went forth from his father's tent, healthy in body and soul; his eye open to every thing that is worth knowing; susceptible, like well-tilled ground, of farther seeding and expanding; hopeful and lifefraught as a young fruit tree evolved from the kernel. So, carrying in his hand from his home the key to the book of scripture and of history no less than that of nature, he scarcely needed farther the instruction of men. His preachers were the stars of heaven, the trees and flowers of the field; and the preceptive voices of the Levites and prophets, which, without interruption now sounded through the land, found in his mind, as in an echoing temple, a quick and living response. If there was now among those youths one who felt an ardent desire impelling him to penetrate yet deeper into the mysteries of God's kingdom, to comprehend the works of the same in their connection, nay, to devote his life to the pursuit of heaven by wisdom, thereby, to constitute himself not merely the instructor of his household, but also the teacher of a wider circle, there were open to him the so-called prophet - schools, which, since the time of Samuel, appear as the fairest blossoms on the tree of Israelitish history, and which in our days can with difficulty find their analogy, except, perhaps, in the missionary seminaries which, in the The Scriptures mention to us four such excellent foundations; two under Samuel, one at Kirjathjearim, where the Ark of the Covenant then was;* the other at Ramah. The three others in the days of Elijah and Elisha, in Benjamin, that tribe which the departing Moses blessed with the words, "The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders;"‡ and, indeed, more adjacent in the towns of Gilgal, Jericho, and Beth-el; partly, therefore, in the most obscure places and dangerous caverns of the whole land; for Beth-el and Gilgal, at least, those head quarters of apostacy and idolatry, well merit to be so called. Here, therefore, or nearly opposite, upon fertile eminences and hills, these young men dwelt together in numerous bodies, and as small colonial sections: the unmarried, it appears, were settled in larger edifices, into one household; the others with their families, apart in their own tents. As the state troubled not itself about these colonies, the whole care for their maintenance, as merely private establishments, was left in their own hands. The pupils of these institutions had to gain their livelihood by the labour of their own hands, as husbandmen, handicraftsmen, or planters. In Israel, this 1 Sam. x. 5, 10. 1 Sam. x. 5, 15. Deut. xxxiii. 12. was not thought singular; and much less did it appear contemptible. Subsequently, also, it became even a rule amongst the learned to teach a trade, while instructing a science to their pupils. Many of their principal and most eminent rabbis have even been surnamed after their civil occupations, as, "Rabbi Judah, the baker;" "Rabbi Isaac, the smith;""Rabbi Johanan, the shoemaker;" and so forth: and that Paul and Aquila, along with their spiritual office, wrought at tent-making, has not been imputed to them by their enemies as ought vulgar or degrading. Now, that the sons of the prophets really understood and exercised such occupations, it is clear from 2 Kings, vi. 4, where we meet them with the axe and trowel in their hand, engaged in cheerful ardour, in carpentering and masonry. Solitary traces, however, are not wanting to show that these holy colonies were ever and anon rejoiced with pious benefactions and love-presents, and, after the parting of the kingdom from the hands of the God-fearing Israelites, at several times received the tithes which the subjects of the Samaritan kings no longer were permitted to pay to the priests in Jerusalem. winds. Here the object was the positive import of open and, lo, they of the anointed instructor, and out of that Levitical chrysalis, arose the marvellous butterfly which lay folded therein. Then issued out of the bleeding symbol of the sacrifice the martyr-form of the promised Lamb that was to bear the sins of the world. Then was searched in the glowing shafts of that "hidden wisdom," of which, as a disciple, as David describes himself also in the Fifty-first Psalm, and, ere the wondering listeners were aware of it, the holy of holies of the New Testament had, in the hieroglyphics of the tabernacle, in dim outline at least, unclosed itself before their eyes. A third subject of instruction in those distinguished seminaries consisted, doubtlessly, of the The directors and instructors of these brotherly mysteries of the Aaronic priesthood, or the cereunions were the prophets; those wandering bea-monial law. Then from the full-meaning sayings cons in the night; those standard-bearers in the holy warfare; super-eminently endowed with all the gifts of the Spirit, and accredited before the whole world, by signs and wonders, as the heralds and interpreters of Jehovah; expounders and infallible commentators of the revelations of God; elucidators of the past, and proclaimers of the future and the remote. Familiar and confidential, like fathers amidst their children, these men, when not summoned out by the Lord to the scene of conflict, dwelt and moved among their spiritual sons; and thus their wild, tempest-driven life acquired amid these scenes a more serene and peaceful Without dispute, the study of the law also formed aspect. Not in the present school and pulpit form, an item in the studies of those schools; not, howbut more in the way of social intercourse, and easy ever, the human, but rather the divine, the theoretic confidence, it was their wont to impart their pro- code, as it was contained in the Mosaic institutions, found, lucid, and anointed instructions, to the sus- and which, even to the time of its fall, was still in ceptible and knowledge-craving youth; and they practice, though with flagging hand. To this was reaped the best reward for their labour in the added, also, the cultivation of the mother-tongue: grateful affection of their pupils, as well as in the but how widely different must have been its study active and fruitful zeal with which the latter com- then to that of the orientalists of the present day. prehended and retained what they had heard, and The grammatical deserts which the scholars of our received it into themselves, as a seed of the vital academies have to march through blossomed to power of godliness. The subjects of instruction the pupils of those seminaries, like the lilies of the were purely theological; and, indeed, in that higher field. Study was prosecuted with devotion; for the and highest sense of the word, in which all know-mother-tongue of Israel had become also the lanledge was to be, and, hereafter, in the days of the great new birth, shall be again. The particular study which formed their chief occupation was, without doubt, that of the divine word, the exposition of Holy Writ. What kind of exegetical discourses may not have been those from the lips of men whose tongues were as "the pen of a ready writer," who had searched into the depths of the Godhead, and who, sitting as chancellors and secretaries in the cabinet of God, received those infallible testimonials on which millions since that time have built the sure fortress of their hopes and repose. These lectures were assuredly somewhat different from barren collections of miscellaneous matter, from toilsome crusades through the wilds of criticism, from leafless and blossomless registers of literature, and wretched dirt and rubbish heaps of hypothesis and speculation, collected from the four guage of Jehovah. The spirit, and not the mere letter, was searched into; its depths were sounded; and, in this ground, treasure upon treasure was brought to light with a hallowed keenness. The principal occupations in which the sons of the prophets are really presented to us are those of prophecy and music. În 1 Sam. x., we are told, there met Saul, at the hill of God at Kirjath-jearim, a great company of such disciples, "with a psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp, before them," and themselves prophesying. And in 1 Sam. xix., it is told, "how king Saul had seen, a second time, even at Rama, the assembly of the sons of the prophets. And they prophesied," he says, "and Samuel was standing as appointed over them." It appears, from these two texts, that, in those peaceful colonies and places of refuge, the pleasant science of music and singing was dili gently exercised in all that was beautiful and good, and consecrated, according to its original appointment, to the praise of God, and to the exhiliration and adornment of domestic life. the seminaries in which the hope for better generations than the existing race may yet find some ground to anchor upon? Alas! with lanterns must we seek them, despite the boasting and exulting Old traditions tell us much of the perfect mas-over the "pinnacle of perfection," which, as it is tery those youths had obtained in this charming said, education also, in this lauded period of enart, and how touchingly beautiful the inward har-lightenment, has by this time attained. Go to!mony of their souls had mirrored itself in the pure unison of their symphonies and choruses. Under the head of prophesying we have manifestly naught else to conceive but an involuntary outpouring of the enraptured heart, in rhythmically-winged words, through the influence of the Holy Ghost, and as an inspired extemporizing of the most holy and sublime nature; at one time, in singing intonations to the notes of the psaltery and the harp; at another, more the form of a sacred conversation without musical accompaniment. - aye, to Is not wherein doth it then lay, that much talked of perfection of modern teaching? Is it possibly in the extended grasp, not of a living wisdom, but of a dead, and, for the most part, still fragmentary knowledge, which is forced down the throats of our sons and daughters? Or is it in the utter apostacy of modern refinement from the word of truth and the divine stores of salvation? Or is it in the rational or more popular course which is said to be enfranchised from every thing of a higher tendency, in which individual branches of knowledge are treated? Now, even if the final aim of these glorious Or is it to be sought for in the intoxicating draught schools was not exactly to form prophets and seers of purely heathenish conceptions of liberty, morafor such the Lord alone formeth and calleth lity, and justice, as, in place of the cup of salvation, still would Jehovah find in them an assembly who, it is presented, by blind readers, to our youth? And when he saw meet to select for himself from among here I cannot refrain from inserting a few words, in them, should produce those gifted with the human the highest degree worthy of being laid to the heart, qualifications required for such an office. It is in which an enlightened scholastic writer lately porextremely probable that most of the prophets pro- trayed our present system of education here in Gerceeded from these institutions. The herdsman many, to the understanding of his contemporaries, in Amos, at least, seems to wish to describe his language as powerful as true. "Education," says he, prophetical calling only as an exception to the rule, "has, alas, become nothing but distortion and supine. when he says, "I was no prophet, originally; ness; it has even descended to seduction neither was I a prophet's son (prophet's scholar)! | a designed, systematic art of seduction. but I was an herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore what our days testify almost unheard of in the fruit; and the Lord took me as I followed the flock, whole history of the world, that not only young men, and said to me, Go, prophesy, unto my people but even schoolboys and apprentices are trained as Israel." In any case, those establishments gave to instruments of sedition, and are to be now seen the land many an enlightened teacher, many a wor-associated together in the foremost ranks of riot and thy, enlightened, and trusty householder and judge. revolt. The most shameful blasphemies, maleAnd, even if this had not been so, still would these dictions, and imprecations, are pronounced, in the seminaries, by their mere existence, have fulfilled ears of attentive youth and childhood, against clerunquestionably a high and sacred object. They gy, magistrates, and public institutions, and, as the were the depositories of Israelitish civilization and sponge sucks in water, so inflammable young minds law; they shone as luminaries among a degenerated imbibe such impressions. A monstrous, incredible and backsliding race, and reproached by their exam-ignorance of the word of God, and an alarming ple its apostacy, as severely as could have been produced by the words of the mightiest thunder. Their quiet but powerful influence assisted to dispel the gloom of pagan darkness. They formed a constellation by night, which, to the mourners on the sea of a melancholy period, at least discovered their danger, and the direction in which, if they would escape destruction, they had to stretch their sails. Spiritual asylums were opened, in their bosom, for the spiritually troubled among the nation, who there found instruction, consolation, and peace; and who can say what streams of life, more than is present to the eye, may not thence have flowed refreshingly as from the heart of the nation, on every side throughout the land! Alas, my brethren, what a melancholy invades my heart, when I turn from the image of these ancient Heaven-consecrated schools to the present time; to observe the institutions for learning, both of the higher and lower class, as they now exist! O ye sons of Israel, how much better were ye advised than happens in the greater number of instances of our own youth; and still we are - Christians! Where are they in our times, those institutions which another spirit directs than the spirit of the world and of profaneness? Where do they flourish, Chap. vii. 14, 15. want of scriptural knowledge prevails far and wide; for, during a period of thirty years our youth have been beguiled out of their sanctification in very many of our public and private schools, and those who have been most distinguished in perpetuating such sins have become the most esteemed, favoured, and best rewarded teachers. The most stale and vapid twaddle has been named religious and moral instruction, and school-books full of subtle omissions, or teeming with the most flagitious attacks on religion, were officially introduced. Instruction in history, that monument of divine justice and human errors, was usually perverted to the implanting of national pride, and the dissemination of the most destructive principles and nest fallacious dogmas. And, to crown the instructio. with personal example, teachers of the people and of youth have not struck from, or felt ashamed at, being found guilty of treason and rebellion against the government and church whose benefactions they had enjoyed. These are the signs and fruits of an unholy, unchristian education; that is, the harvest of our sins in education, and of a decay, whose consequences ravage domestic life, unhallow the Church, and shake our states to their centre." If we do not find as yet this melancholy picture realized at home in the full extent of its frightful ences will reveal themselves to the daughters of heaven; they will proceed from divine originals, and their alpha and omega will be Jesus Christ. The arts will return to their primordeal destination, and enter once more into the service of the sanctuary. Painting, with its pencils and colours, will resume its original form of adoration and harmony; music will consecrate her solemn tones to Him alone who has made this sweet and pleasing creature, as Luther calls it, for his own praise. Poetry will again become prophecy, and " speak from the Spirit," and oratory will be to know no other office than to depict the majesty of God, in the winged words of the Holy Ghost. In short, all will be transmuted in that day into the celestial form and nature; and, even on those graves of the ancient prophet-schools, we shall be able to sing once more the psalms of the resurrection, in place of the songs of lamentation. In their more beautiful New Testament-like prototypes, they will arise once more from their ashes; but no longer as the sanctuaries of oppressed truth, but as the creations of the settled and powerful. Oh! ye blessed days, wherefore do ye tarry? Take the wings of the morningdawn! We await ye with the tears of ardent hope and expectation! lineaments, and no blood-stained crops are yet sprouting forth from our educational system; we can only ascribe this to an invisible guardian, who has restricted the development of the planted germ, and who, now that the fountain has been opened amongst us, has held its streams in check and within bounds. To Him, who still cherishes towards us thoughts of peace and not of evil, may we commend our places of learning, both public and private; may He reform, consecrate, and invigorate them. True it is, much good has been done of late years, and greater weight has been attached, more especially in some instances, to religious instruction, and the hours which are devoted to it have been doubled. But even with that the grievance is not yet healed. A different spirit is required, which must pervade the schools and seminaries, which may unite, sanctify, and animate every branch of education. Let us, therefore, look around us for hopes of better times; to the anchorages above the earth, and, God be praised! we need not seek for such shelter in vain. Well do ye know, like a propitious constellation, there still waves over the ominous shadows of the present time a luminous wreath of promise; and the gem in this crown of stars, the most precious stone therein, ye also know. It glistens upon us from a saying of the prophet Zechariah, who thus III. It must have been a great joy to Elijah to calls to us in Jehovah's name: "In that day," pro- be permitted, once more before going to his home, claims the seer, "there shall be upon the bells of to walk in those prophet-schools, in which he now the horses HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the found certainly the echo of all his ardent aspirapots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls tions and prayers, of which he, when weak in faith, before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and had once thought that they had sounded without in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of Hosts, effect in the solitary wastes, that they had perished, and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of unheard, amid the reverberation of the mute rocks. them, and seethe therein; and in that day there shall O, how deeply must the prospect of these flourishbe no more the Canaanite in the House of the Lord ing gardens of the Lord have humbled and shamed of Hosts."* Oh! the transporting, wondrous pros- him, when he reflected upon his former anxieties pect that discloses itself to us here, of the incompara- and complaints! With what regret must he have bly beautiful and celestially illumined form of the remembered, here, the sinful distrust wherewith, world and the Church, which beams upon us from the in hours of sadness, he could so often doubt of the prophetic mirror of these words! Even upon the bells success of his labours! His labours, truly, had of the horses in that day, the same inscription as up- not been in vain. Yea, upon his own ground these on the forehead of the high-priest: "Holiness unto fair plantations, although, in the first place, they the Lord!" and all objects shall be consecrated. At had not arrived at maturity there, still had they the present day, we still draw a distinction between increased to such a goodly blossom, to this surwhat is holy in the world and what unholy; conse-prisingly delightful expansion and extent. Whole crated and common in the milder signification of the colonies of the sons of God, and of the future term, not in immediate connection with God and with standard-bearers of Jehovah! and that, at a season, heavenly objects; or, what is here the most marked too, of which Elijah already was on the point of expression, profane. We speak, for instance, of believing that it could no longer present any one sacred history and of profane history; of sacred to plead the cause of God among men, but himself, science, as theology and its separate departments and perhaps his successor, Elisha! In spite of the and discipline; and of another science to which we persecutions of Ahab, in spite of the blood-thirstihave not appropriated this title, of medicine, of ness of a Jezebel, and of the apostacy of an entire jurisprudence, and so forth. We call holy, the table nation, these enchanting gardens of roses had grown of the Lord's supper, in our churches; holy, the amidst storm and tempest in quiet seclusion, as if cup of the blessed wine; holy, also, the places of from a moral marsh, and in the most desert places our congregations, for the worship of God. But, of the whole land; in those parts, as it were, of again, it is true, we should still hold it a blasphemy hell, and in the head quarters of the prince of for any one to call "holy" the house in which he darkness! What a miracle was this before the dwells, or the glass out of which he drinks, or the eyes of the prophet! What a widely-beaming table in his room. This distinction, however, be- memorial of the almighty grace and faithfulness of tween profane and holy will vanish at that glorious Hin, to whom it is a light thing, even of stones, to epoch which Zechariah announces to the world. raise up children to father Abraham. Truly, whoFor, then, even the basins and bowls will become soever visited these colonies must have read over holy, and a lustre and beauty be shed over all that their gate the inscription, "Lord, thou art great, surrounds us, and we possess. The Spirit of the and thy name is great, and thou canst prove it by Lord will diffuse itself upon all forms, and all ob- thy works. Happy Elijah, to be permitted to jects will receive a divine consecration. The sci-unite with the hope of heavenly glory. His expectation also, of having in the strength of Jeho *Chap. xiv. 20, 21. |