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CONVERSATION IV.

"The day is thine, the night also is thine. Thou hast prepared the light and the sun. Thou hast set all the borders of the earth. Thou hast made summer and winter."-Psalm 1xxiv, 16, 17.

At mid-day, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me, and them which journeyed with me. Acts xxvi. 13.

THAT indeed, papa, was a resplendent brightness which removed the thick darkness under which St. Paul laboured, when he persecuted the church of Christ even "unto the death, binding and delivering into prison both men and women."

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By a miraculous interposition in his favour, Georgiana, the scales fell from his eyes and the glorious truth not only enlightened his understanding, but touched his heart, when it was given him to believe, that "God so loved the world that

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The dying day: stars rise, and set, and rise—
Earth takes the example see De Summer gay,
With her green chaplet, and ambrosiai fuvės,
Droop into palat Autumn-Winter gray.
Horrid with frost, and turbulent with scrn,

Blows Autumn and his grüten fruits away
Then meits into the Spring-sch Spring, with breach
Favonian, from warn chambers of the scuta,
Recals the first: all, to refourish, fades:
As in a wheei, all sinks, to reascend.”

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"Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth."

Every exhilarating object calls loudly upon us, my daughter, to join the universal song of praise; and even while our tongues are silent, with our hearts let us make melody to the Lord. Whilst we regard the sun as the author and finisher of the delightful renovation produced at this season of the year, let us further reflect on the cold, dismal, dark state in which this blooming world would be involved, if deprived of its fertilizing and cheering beams. Where would be our verdant fields? Where the rich folia

he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Marvellous indeed was the sacrifice, which infinite Almighty love could alone devise to rescue fallen man.

""Twas great to raise a world from nought-
But greater to redeem."

In contemplating the numerous benefits we derive from the sun, papa, our thoughts have a wide field to range through. When the wintry season passes away, the face of nature is revived by its influence. The insects are roused from their stupid torpor, and are seen in busy motion providing for their future wants and enjoyments. The leaves and flowers again decorate their forsaken branches; the songs of the little birds again warble through the groves, and dulness and gloom give place to brightness, and beauty, and animation ; for spring is truly a joyous season.

"Look nature through, 'tis revolution all,
All change, no death: day follows night, and night

The dying day: stars rise, and set, and rise—
Earth takes the example;-see the Summer gay,
With her green chaplet, and ambrosial flow'rs,
Droop into pallid Autumn-Winter gray,
Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm,
Blows Autumn and his golden fruits away:
Then melts into the Spring-soft Spring, with breath
Favonian, from warm chambers of the south,
Recals the first: all, to reflourish, fades:
As in a wheel, all sinks, to reascend.”

YOUNG.

"Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth."

Every exhilarating object calls loudly upon us, my daughter, to join the universal song of praise; and even while our tongues are silent, with our hearts let us make melody to the Lord. Whilst we regard the sun as the author and finisher of the delightful renovation produced at this season of the year, let us further reflect on the cold, dismal, dark state in which this blooming world would be involved, if deprived of its fertilizing and cheering beams. Where would be our verdant fields? Where the rich foliage

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