If where the forest's darkest shadows lower,
A serpent quick and venemous I see,

It seems to say, "I too extol the power
Of Him who caused me at his will to be!"
The fountain purling, and the river strong,
The rocks, the trees, the mountains, raise one song;
"Glory to God!" re-echos in mine ear:
Faithless were I, in wilful error blind,
Did I not Him in all his creatures find,

His voice thro' heaven and earth and ocean hear.

Cowper.

IN all God's works there is heart,-God's heart, for God is love; and he is happy who feels this, for though every man sees God with his mind, his understanding, no man sees him with the heart, or hears the tones of love in creation, who has not something of that love within him. In man's works, heart is the rarest ingredient, the most precious, the most costly, the most seldom to be met with. In God's work, love is the universal element, though power is almost the only element man notices. But love is the element that speaks to the heart, and happy is the heart who hears its blissful language.

Cheever.

READER! whose thought may dwell upon the line That is my spirit's voice now uttering from its shrine, Is it thy love to brood upon the life,

That shall endure for aye,-when past the few years'

strife?

Is it thy wont, with a still calm, to muse

Upon the eternal lot thine own life's love shall choose? If so, the very nothingness of time

Will come upon thy heart with a deep awe sublime!
In the full thought thou wilt forget the past,

And through the future live each day, as if thy last!
And thou wilt sigh to win the inward rest,
Fore-shadowing to thy soul the being of the blest!
To me nor sound nor breath of living air
But seem the messengers of truth, that bear
The words of life that bid me to prepare
For state of soul interior, to endure
Fresh with eternal youth of being evermore !

George A. Wingfield.

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9 insert after sensuous, perceptions; the

true certainty of nature and of nature's laws arises from
the whole created universe with its innumerable inhabi-
tants being momentarily dependant for