Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1836-05-13
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.

DD l.amarllnes Pilgrimage 10 the Ho-
|and in 1893, work which has passed
gh two editions within a short time.
'slel jerusalem as a poet and philoso.
aud returned with his mind enlight-
by sublime and awful lessons" On
faclect Of devotion at sea. he says:
Payer was not invented: it was born
the first sigh, with the first JOY, the first
Nv of the human heart; or rather man
born 10 pray to glorify God or to i'm.
him, was his only mission here below,
Sc perlshes before him, or with him;
hecry of glory, Of admiration, or OF love
he raises towards the Creator, does
erlsh on his passing from the earth {:
l'cencs, Ii resounds from age TO age in
pro the Almighty, like The echo OF his
voice, like the reflection of his own
Llhcence. 1t is the only thing in man
IS wholly divine, and which he can
ewhh j1y and pride, for this pride is a
&c 10 Him, to whom alone homage is
The Infinite Being.
ha'a world is the world of prayer !
an invisible but all powerful tie is
beings mutually known or unknown,
Ag together or separately for each 9TH
has always seemed 10 me that prayer
only real force, or at least the great
zee Of man Man cannot conceive its
but what does he conceive 2 The
Wnrh dives man to breathe proves
10 him that air is necessary to his life /!
aSnct Of prayer proves also to the
De ehcacy of prayer.
e'mery man did not 90 to sleep on
Yep and perfdious bed of the ocean
a raising his soul and his voice to
without rendering glory to his sublime
amidst all these stars, and waves,
'ul'nOS OF mountaIns-amidst all the
and all the peris of night Even,
ayers were always said on board O
once the revolution of July, this is nc
'aG case. Prayer is dead on the lip:
va liberalism Of the 18th century
nad IN itself nothing of life but it.
d'fed Of the souls enthusiasm. Thi.
O'ea'n OF man, which the children
lm nave transmitted down to us witt
Saaa sorrows, has been extinguisheC
'uVe IN our days of dispute and pride
'e mixed up God with our quarrels
D@ Ta OF the Deity is terrible 10 som,
ineSe insects, just burst into life, t,
1'morrow, and whose barren dus
'n. may IN few days sweep away
"P Aelr whltened bones on som
aore, lear to confess, by word o
aa' infinite Being whom the heaven
seas confess. They affect to dis
Iame Him who I'D not disdain t
v %eln'-'and why} Because thes
'at uniform, can make certai
VI calculations, and call themselve
N Jr s Of the 18th century, Hnppil
"'. s'"'ury passes away, and see
i IN "a, approaching, an age truly rel
WnIch' If men do not confess Go
M @",v language, or in the same cree,
% confess him at least in every cree
every language"
' ,% T. after passing the bridge tn,
We Cedron, leading 10 Gethsemar
M garden NJ of Olives, seats himself upc
iYa Of the most solitary and oldest
y 0o GeeS' thus moralizing;
/. 'v us arose from the dry bed of II
no leaf trembled on the tree
D oy eyes for a moment, and revert,
~ 's"' - 70 that night, the eve of the r
- Of the human race, when the [
,'senser drank 10 the dregs the ch
aD JisoG ry before meeting his death
esss sO' man as the reward Of his celC
hal | enquired of my heart VIII
h, 70 the salvation he came to pit
Ie NJ 1ne world at SO heavy a price /;
' ~t 10 myself the extremity of q
bn ' u, must have rent the bosom
v" Man whom he contemplated a