Catherine A Daughter's My own sweet mother 'tis of thee, I linger on the hallowed ground And every flow'r and tree is fraught With themes for grave and holy thought. They tell me there are other ties As tender and as true, That life has still its sympathies But well I know, no love like thine Oh may we share that home with thee O could I scatter thy pathway with flowers, Then were accomplished my heart's fondest Vain is the longing for nearer communion, When the heart's love to its Saviour is given, Then, and then only from pain is it free; Then like the dew, that first rises to Heaven, May it descend in best blessings on thee! Dietrich writes to Melancthon, of Luther at Coburg, during the Diet of Augsburg :-"Je ne puis assez admirer sa fermeté, sa joie, sa foi et son espérance dans ces temps de désolation. Il s'affermit chaque jour dans ces sentiments par une application constante à la parole de Dieu. Il ne se passe point de jour qu'il ne réserve pour la prière aux moins trois heures prises sur le temps de la journée, qui est le · plus favorable au travail. Un jour j'eus le privilége de l'entendre prier :-Quel esprit, quelle foi dans ses paroles!" K. J. Luther. To the obscuris viris' belong all those who Rationalism. would set up and be zealous for any sort of strange fire of their own invention, instead of the divine light which shines on mankind in Christ. Neander. Pope said of Reason: "Ah! if she lend not arms as well as rules, Why should we go down to the Philistines, to sharpen every one his share and his coulter and his axe and his mattock, as if there was 66 no smith in Israel.”—See 1 Sam. xiii. 19, 20. Secular Expediency. Lord C. J. Influence of Sir B. Brodie. Literary Ld. Tenterden. Qn. Elizabeth. Expediency is a tyrant whose will is made a pretext for every act of injustice. In whatever orbit a man moves, he carries others with him. Industry in one leads to industry in another, and the mind which is imbued with the love of knowledge, cannot fail to communicate some portion of that holy inspiration to the minds of others. These, which are amongst the higher responsibilities of life, have begun with you already. While you are making your own characters you will make the character of others. Let this consideration be ever present to your thoughts. It will give you an increased interest in life. It will extend your sympathies with those around you, and it will afford you an additional stimulus to persevere in those honourable exertions for which you will, at no great distance of time, be rewarded by the respect of the world, and the esteem of your own profession. Sit fabulosis fas mihi cantibus The only effectual ally was the spirit of the people, and her policy flowed from that magnanimous nature, which in the hour of peril, teaches better lessons than those of cold reason. Her great heart inspired her with a higher and nobler wisdom, which disdained to appeal to the low and sordid passions of the people, because she knew, or rather she felt, that there are effeminate, creeping, cowardly, shortsighted passions which shrink from a conflict, even in defence of their own mean objects. In a righteous cause she roused generous affections of her people, which alone teach boldness, constancy, and foresight; and which are therefore the only safe guardians of the lowest, as well as the highest interests of a nation. In her memorable address to her army, when the invasion of her country was threatened by Spain, this woman of heroic spirit, disdained to speak to them of their ease, and their commerce, and their wealth, and their safety. No! she touched another chord. She spoke of their national honour, of their dignity as Englishmen, of "The foul scorn that Parma or Spain should dare to invade the borders of her realms." She breathed into them those grand and powerful sentiments, which exalt vulgar men into heroes, which lead them into the battle of their country armed with holy and irresistible enthusiasm, which even cover with their shield all the ignoble interests that base calculation and cowardly selfishness tremble to hazard, but shrink. from defending. Utilitarianism looks to the immediate endvirtue or the moral principle does not. The Sir J. Moral Principle. Fitzgerald. Light. Cowley. Robert Hall. virtuous man is not like the character whose gaze is ever fixed upon the goal, but rather like the rower, who struggling with the tide, and intent upon his present work, continually approaches the unseen harbour where he would be. Through the soft paths of Heaven, and Earth, and Sea, (Which open all their pores to Thee,) Like a soft river thou dost glide. All the world's bravery that delights our eyes, Thou the rich dye on them bestowest, Thy nimble pencil paints the landscape as thou goest. Contrast the moral aspect of the same subject in Schiller's beautiful address to Light in "William Tell." Amongst Robert Hall's favourite Works were: Chillingworth's "Religion of Protest“Jonathan Edwards; ants,*", Campbell's "Translation of the Gospels; " Matthew Henry's "Commentary." The characteristic and impressive terminations of Hall's Sermons are exemplified in those entitled: "The Glory of God in Concealing;" "The Glory of Christ's Kingdom;" "The Lamb of God." * Recommended by Locke as a model of clear |