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going where his devotion will be without languor, his love without alloy, his doubt certainty, his expectation enjoyment, his hope fruition. All will be perfect, for God will be all in all. From God he knows that he shall derive immediately all his happiness. It will no longer pass through any of those channels, which now sully its purity. It will be offered now, through no second cause which may fail, no intermediate agent which may deceive, no uncertain medicine which may disappoint. The felicity is not only certain but perfect; not only perfect but eternal. As he approaches the land of realities, the shadows of this earth cease to interest or mislead him. The films are removed from his eyes. Objects are stripped of their false lustre. Nothing that is really little any longer looks great. The mists of vanity are dispersed. Every thing which is to have an end appears small, appears nothing. Eternal things assume their proper magnitude, for he beholds them in the sure point of vision. He has ceased to lean on the world, for he has found it both a reed and a spear; it has failed and it has pierced him. He leans not on himself, for he has long known his weakness. He leans not on his virtues, for they can do nothing for him. Had he no better refuge, he feels that his sun would set in darkness, his life close in despair. But he knows in whom he has trusted, and therefore knows not what he should fear. He looks upward with holy but humble confidence to that great Shepherd, who having long since conducted him into green pastures, having by his rod corrected, and by his staff supported him, will, he humbly trusts, guide him through the dark valley of the shadow of death, and safely conduct him to the peaceful realms of everlasting rest.

THE LAST DAY.

EVEN thus amid thy pride and luxury,
Oh earth; shall that last coming burst on thee,
That secret coming of the Son of Man.
When all the cherub-throning clouds shall shine,
Irradiate with his bright advancing sign:

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When that great husbandman shall wave his fan, Sweeping, like chaff, thy wealth and pomp away: Still to the noontide of that nightless day,

Shalt thou thy wonted dissolute course maintain. Along the busy mart and crowded street, The buyer and the seller still shall meet,

And marriage feasts begin their jocund strain,
Still to the pouring out the cup of woe;
Till earth, a drunkard, reeling to and fro,
And mountains molten by his burning feet,
And heaven his presence own, all red with furnace heas
Oh! who shall then survive?

Oh! who shall stand and live?
When all that hath been, is no more;
When for the round earth hung in air,
With all its constellations fair,

In the sky's azure canopy;

When for the breathing earth, and sparkling sea,
Is but a fiery deluge without shore,
Heaving along the abyss profound and dark,
A fiery deluge, and without an ark.
Lord of all power! when thou art there alone
On thy eternal fiery-wheeled throne,

That in its high meridian noon,

Needs not the perished sun nor moon ; When thou art there in thy presiding state,

Wide sceptered monarch o'er the realm of doom
When from the sea-depths, from earth's darkest
womb,

The dead of all the ages round thee wait;
And when the tribes of wickedness are strewn,
Like forest leaves, in the autumn of thine ire ;
Faithful and true! thou still shalt save thine own;
The saints shall dwell with the unharming fire,-
Each white robe spotless, blooming every palm.
Even safe as we, by this still fountain's side,
So shall the church, thy bright and mystic bride,
Sit on the stormy gulf a halcyon bird of calm.
Yes, 'mid yon angry and destroying signs,
O'er us the rainbow of thy mercy shines,
We hail, we bless the covenant of its beam,
Almighty to avenge, almightiest to redeem !

DICTIONARY,

EXPLAINING

THE MORE DIFFICULT AND UNCOMMON WORDS

THAT OCCUR IN THE COLLECTION.

ABRUPTLY, suddenly Abyss, the gulf into which a cataract falls, a great depth. Accumulation, keeping up or gathering together.

Acorn, the fruit or seed of the oak.

Acropolis, the citadel of Athens.
Adamantine, so hard that it can-
not be broken.
Adsmeer, a town in India.
Adulation, flattery.
Egean Sea, or Archipelago, a

sea between Europe and Asia. Aliment, food.

Alloy, any thing which, mixed

with another, lessens its value. Alternately, by turns. Amphitheatre, elevated scenery in a circular form.

Antiochus, a king of Syria.
Apace, quickly.
Aperture, an opening.
Apocalypse, revelation.
Appal, to fright.

Aquatic, belonging to water.
Arabia, a country in Asia, ly
ing to the south-east of Ju-
dea.
Aristotle, the name of an ancient
Greek philosopher and au
thor.

Armenia, a country of Asia. Arrears, what remains unpaid. Artaxerxes, a king of Persia. Athens, the chief town of one of

the States of Ancient Greece. August, grand or magnificent. Aurora, morning, or light such as that of the morning.

Analogy, the likeness of one Auxiliary, that which helps or

thing to another.

Angular, having angles or cor

ners.

Annihilate, to turn into nothing. Anticipate, to look forward to, to enjoy before hand. Antidote, something that prevents or works against what is evil.

assists.

Azure, of a blue colour

Bazar, market place.
Beatitude, blessedness.
Beetle, the name of an insect.
Betimes, early or soon.
Blubber, the fat of a whale.

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Borealis, northern. Brahmin, a Gentoo priest. Breaker, a wave broken by sand banks or rocks. Bridal, marriage or wedding. Browze, to feed on shrubs and other plants, as hares, goats, &c. do.

Buoyancy, the quality of floating.

Cabinet, the King's ministers, or those who manage the government of the country. Cabul, a town in Hindostan. Cable, the large rope with which a ship is anchored. Cæsars, Emperors of Rome. Cairo, the chief town of Egypt. Calibre, the diameter of the barrel of a gun.

Canaries, islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

Canopy, a covering spread over the head.

Cape, the end of the land which
projects far into the sea.
Cardinal, chief or principal.
Carnival, a time of joy.
Carol, to sing.

Caspian Sea, a sea in the west of Asia.

Casualty, chance or accident. Catacomb, burial-place or vault. Cataract, a high fall of water. Catkins, a substance growing on nut-trees, birch-trees, &c. in winter, like a rope or cat's tail.

Cement, that which joins toge ther.

Cerastes, a horned snake. Ceylon, an island in the Indian Ocean.

Chafe, to warm with rubbing. Characteristic, that which gives a peculiar character to any thing.

Charcoal, wood burat under turf, or in a close vessel.

Charter, a writing that gives
rights and privileges.
Chasm, a gap or opening.
Chequered, varied.

Chili, a country in South America.

China, a large empire in Asia, Choir, a set of singers. Choral, belonging to a choir. Churlish, of a cross temper. Chrysalis, the first apparent change of the maggot of an insect.

Circumference, the limits of a circle.

Classic, of the first rank or order, (chiefly applied to authors.) Cliff, a craggy rock. Coalesce, to join or grow together.

Coherence, connexion or keeping together.

Colloquial, belonging to conversation, Coluber, serpent. Comminution, small parts.

division into

Compacted, joined or held toge

ther.

Compass, an instrument, consisting of a needle and a card, by which sailors steer their

course.

Complex, not simple, consisting of many parts. Concave, hollow. Conflagration, a large or general burning.

Conflict, struggle or fight. Conjuncture, a particular state of things.

Constellation, a cluster of stars. Consummate, to perfect or complete any thing. Convent, a religious house. Cope, any thing spread over the head, the firmament. Copse, short wood. Corrode, to eat away gradually. Countervail, to act against with equal power.

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Efface, to blot or rub out. Effuse, to shed or pour out. Egress, departure or going out. Elate, haughty, proud. Electricity, the peculiar substance which produces lightning. Elements, commonly reckoned these four earth, air, fire, and water.

Embody, to bring together into

one.

Embower, to shelter or cover with trees.

Embryo, what is still unfolded
or unfinished.
Emergent, sudden.

Enforcement, giving force to.
Ethiopia, a country of Africa.
Evangelical, belonging or pecu-
liar to the Gospel.
Exhalation, what rises in vapour.
Extenuate, to lessen.

Fallow, ground ploughed in order to its being ploughed again.

Fane, a temple, or place devoted to worship.

Fantastic, unreal or capricious. Farina, the mealy substance seen on flowers. Farinaceous, mealy. Fathom, a measure of six feet. Fermentation, slow motion of the intestine particles of a mixed body. Filament, a slender thread. Fillet, a head band. Film, a thin skin. Fissure, a cleft or narrow opening. Flanders, a country in the Ne

therlands.

Flora, an imaginary being, supposed to preside over flowers. Flux, flow.

Focus, the point where the rays

meet.

Foliage, assemblage of leaves.

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