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earth of which thou hast of old laid the foundations, and these heavens which are the work of thy hands, shall perish, but thou shalt endure; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment, as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed; but thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. It exalts the importance of the material universe, and gives it a grandeur even beyond its own immeasurable wealth of the Divine intelligence revealed in its principles and laws for our study, when we regard it thus as God's loom, the frame-work for higher designs and a more infinite glory.

In our globe there is reason to believe that the changes of the seasons, and the processes of seed time and harvest, were ordered and arranged on purpose to serve as indications and illustrations of moral causes and consequences, opportunities and responsibilities, and as stepping stones for faith in regard to the great truths revealed in the Gospel.

Hence the perpetual appeals to these natural types and analogies. In disclosing and proving the doctrine of the resurrection, the inspired apostle goes directly to God's works, with an intimation that the lesson there taught for faith is so clear and palpable, that the reproach of a fool belongs to him, who, with such peculiar and significant manifestations of God's power to his very senses, doubts and questions, when the rising of the body from the dead is presented to his mind in the light of revelation. Thou fool! that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. Thou stumblest at a resurrection from the dead, not seeing that death itself is but a process for the resurrection. And so the apostle carries on the analogy, interweaving it step by step, process by process, with his argument, and rising higher and Ligher with the theme, till it ends in the Halleluia of immortality,

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Water has re-assumed a short-lived sway,
And whitened all the surface of de feius.
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High climbing, hath attained his noon-tide height,
These mounds, transversely lying side by side
From east to west before you, will appear
A dreary plain of unillumined snow,

With more than wintry cheerlessness and gloom
Saddening the heart. Go forward, and look back;
On the same circuit of this church-yard ground
Look, from the quarter whence the Lord of light,
Of life, of love, and gladness, doth dispense
His beams; which, unexcluded in their fall,
Upon the southern side of every grave
Have gently exercised a melting power;
Then will a vernal prospect greet your eye,
All fresh and beautiful, and green, and bright,
Hopeful and cheerful.—vanished is the snow,
Vanished or hidden; and the whole domain,
To some, too lightly minded, might appear
A meadow-carpet for the dancing hours.

This contrast not unsuitable to life

Is to that other state more apposite,
Death, and its two-fold aspect; wintry-one,
Cold, sullen, blank, from hope and joy shut out;
The other which the ray divine hath touched,

Replete with vivid promise, bright as spring.

We have been viewing our beautiful world as one of hieroglyphical predictions, both in the changes of its scenery and the working of its laws and elements of reproduction and decay. For the interpretation of this grand natural language we look into our own being, as well as into the Word of God, remembering that he hath set the world in our hearts. In this view, how full of profound meaning is the following suggestive and comprehensive passage from Coleridge, worthy to be made the text

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grounds for the belief of God and a future state "could not be intellectually more evident without becoming morally less effective; without counteracting its own end by sacrificing the life of faith to the cold mechanism of a worthless, because compulsory, assent."

This remark is exceedingly profound and important. The evidence of faith may be as demonstrative where the heart is right, as that of mathematics to the understanding; but the life of faith is not in the clearness of the proof, nor the comprehensiveness of the reason that embraces it, but in the congenial affections that spring to meet it, in the intuitive unerring spiritual yearnings that predict it, and in the earnest of the Spirit, which is the consequence and seal of our adoption as the sons of God.

Without or star or angel for their guide,

Who worship God, shall find him. Humble Love,
And not proud Reason, keeps the door of heaven.
Love finds admission, where proud science fails.
Man's science is the culture of his heart,

And not to lose his plummet in the depths
Of nature, or the mere profound of God.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

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