Russets the plain, in- | spiring | autumn | gleams, |
Or winter | rises in the | blackening | east,

Be my tongue | mute, my | fancy | paint no | more, for- | get my heart to | beat! || mand me to the | farthest | verge

And, dead to | joy,

Should fate comOf the green earth,

Rivers un- | known to

to distant, | barbarous climes, song, where | first the sun |

Gilds | Indian | mountains, or his | setting | beam |

Flames on the At- lantic isles, 'tis nought to me, | |

Since | God is

ever | present, I ever felt; |17| | waste as in the | cities | full:|17| | And where He | vital | breathes

In the void

there must be

joy.

When | e'en at last the | solemn | hour shall | come,
And wing my | mystic | flight to | future | worlds, |

I cheerful

powers,

will o- | bey; || There, with | new |

Will rising wonders | sing: I cannot go

Where uni- | versal | love | smiles not a- | round, |

Sustaining all yon | orbs | and | all their | suns; | |

From seeming | evil | still e- | ducing | good, |

And better thence a- | gain, and | better | still, |

In | infinite pro- |gression. But I lose

My- | self in | Him, || in | light in- | effable! 1771 Come, then, ex- | pressive | Silence, muse His | praise.

THOMSON.

1. STAND!

WARREN'S ADDRESS.

the ground's your own, my | braves, |

Will ye | give it up to | slaves? |79|
Will ye look for | greener | graves? |

Hope ye mercy | still? ||111
What's the mercy | despots | feel? |

Hear it in that | battle | peal! | 1 |

Read it on yon | bristling | steel! ||

Ask it ye who | will. 1991

2. Fear ye | foes who | kill for | hire? |17|
Will ye to your homes re- | tire? |
Look behind you! | they're a- | fire! |
And before you, | see |

Who have done it! - From the | vale |

!

On they come and I will ye | quail?-1 Leaden | rain and | iron | hail |

3. In the God of | battles | trust! || Die we may - and | die we | must; ||

But, 0, where can | dust to | dust |

Be con- signed | so well,

As where heaven its | dews shall | shed, |
On the martyred | patriot's | bed,

And the

rocks shall | raise their | head, |

Of his deeds to | tell? |19|
I |

PIERPONT.

CHAPIN ON REFORM.

THE great element of re- | form is not | born of human wisdom, it does not | draw its | life from | human | organi | zations. I find it | only in Chris- | tianity. "Thy | kingdom | come!" | There is a sub- | lime and | pregnant | burden | in | this | prayer. | It is the aspiration of | every | soul that | goes | forth in the spirit of re- | form. For | what is the sig- | nificance

due and dwell in the

heart of man,
| |

un- | til he

from the

shall think, and speak, and | do | good,

very ne- | cessity of his | being.

institutions of error and | wrong

So would the |

| crumble and

pass

from the earth; |

| | away; so would | sin | die out │

and the human | soul | living in | harmony

with the di- | vine will, this earth would be- | come like heaven. | | | |

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It is too late for the re- | formers to | sneer

at Christianity;

it is | foolishness for them to re

ject it. In it are en- | shrined our | faith in | human | progress, our confidence in re- | form. It is in- | dissolubly connected with all that is hopeful, | spiritual, | That men have | misunder- | stood |

capable, in man.

|

it, and per-verted it, is true. But it is also | true that the noblest | efforts for human melio- | ration

have come out of it, have been | based up- | on it. |

ones,

Is it not so?
Come, ye re- | membered |
who sleep the sleep of the | just,

who |

took your conduct from the | line of | Christian phi- | losophy, come from your tombs and answer!

|

1/19 Come, Howard, from the | gloom of the prison, | and the taint of the | lazar-house, and | show us | what phi- | lanthropy can do when im- | bued with the | spirit of |

Jesus. forest,

where the red man | listens to the word of life; come, Penn, from thy | sweet | counsel and | weaponless victory, and show us what | Christian | zeal and | Christian love can ac- |complish

or the | fiercest | hearts.

with the | rudest bar- |

Come, |

barians, Raikes, from thy | labors with the | ignorant and the | poor, | and | show us with | what an | eye this | faith re- | gards the lowest and | least of our | race; |

how diligently it | labors, not for the

|

rank, but for the plastic soul | | the ages of immor- tality.

Andye, 1 who are a

1

and |

nameless | ones, who have done | good in your | narrow

spheres, con- tent to fore- | go re-nown on earth, |

and seeking your re- | ward in the | record on | high,
I
come and tell us how | kindly a | spirit,
| |
purpose, or how | strong a courage,
| |
ye preferred can | breathe into the poor,

how | lofty a

the re- | ligion

the humble, and the weak. 717 Go | forth, then, | spirit of | Christianity, to thy | great | work of re- | form!|77| The past bears | witness to thee in the blood of

។

thy | martyrs, and the | ashes of thy | saints and | heroes; the present is hopeful be- | cause of thee; future shall ac- | knowledge thy om- nipotence.

the | 1991

NINTH CHAPTER OF JOHN.

AND as Jesus passed | by, he saw a man which was | blind from his | birth. |17|77| And his dis- | ciples | asked him, | saying, | Master, | who did | sin, ! this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, | Neither hath | this | man | sinned, | nor his parents: || but that the | works of God should be made manifest in him. . 7777I must | work the | works of him that sent the night | cometh, | ▼

me, while it is | day:

as I am in the world,

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As long

I am the light of the world. |

When he had | thus spoken, he | spat on