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year. 1t should be occupied by serious
thoughts. 1t is the time to reckon with
ones heart to renew aud form resolution
to forgive and reconcile and redeem
". Y Mirror.
PoETICAL CHARACTER OF THE BIBLE -
The following extract is taken from the N.
Y. Mirror. 1t is happy effort to exhibit
what however far exceeds all human de.
scrlp'ion. The pathos and beauty and
eoqnence and Divine truths Of the Holy
scriptures arc. alas, too little known and
felt. Were the lids of this book more
frequently opened, much OF the doubt and
darkness which now hang over the minds
of many who profess to receive it as ga
lamp to their feet and n light to their path"
would b, dlspeled, and many who now
reject lis rays altogether, and wander in
The darkness, Of error ana folly, would find
It an unerring guide to lead their footsteps
in the ways Of Virtue and in the paths of
| Peace.
Had the Bible been without its poetic
al character, we should have wanted the
voice Of an angel to recommend it to the
acceptance ofmankind. Prone az we are
to neglect this banquet upon which the
most exalted mind may freely and fully
feast, we should then have regarded 1t with
ten fold disdain But such is the unlimited
goodness of Him who knew from The be.
ginning what was in the heart Of man, that
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as 10 accord with our views of what i:
magnificent and beautiful. and thus to re-
mud us OF his glory; but even the record
of his immediate dealing with his rational
and responsible creatures, harmonze Will
all our most tender, reiincd and elevated
thoughts. With our established IDEAS o.
beauty and grace and pa,hos Of sublimily
cithe' concentrated in the minuest point
or extended TO the widest range, we car
derive from the scriptures n fund Of cratili
cation nc. 10 he fcrnd in any other memo
rlel OF past or present time. From the
worm that grovcls IN tho dust beneath ou
feet, to the track Of the lcviathln in the
loaming deep, from the moth that corrupt:
the secret treasure, 10 the eagle that soar
a5uve his eyry in the clouds, from the will
ass Of the desert, 10 the lamp within tn,
shcperds toli-trOm the consuming locust
to the ca'llc upon the thousand hIlls-frOu
The rose Of Sharon In the cedcrs of Lcba
Don--trnm The crystal stream gushing fnrll
out OF The flDiy rock. to the Wild waters o
The dclGge from The barren waste, to the
fruitful vineyard, and the land tljwinS will
milk and honey, from the lonely path o
the wandercr, to the gathering of a mighty
multitude, from the tear that falls IN sccrc
to the dim of battle, and the shout of
triumphant host Iron the solitary IN Ia,
wilderness, to The suiyr on his throne
from The mourner clad in sackcIoth, to tn,
prince in purple robes from the gnawing
OF the worm.rh hat dielh not, to the seraphIC
yisage of the best, from the still small
voice, to the thunder OF Omnipotence-.
from the depths of hell, to the regions o
eternal glory, there is 40 degree Of beaut,
ar detormny. m tendency 20 good or evil
n, shade Of darkness or q ieam Of hight ,whc
does not com, within the coTnIZance O
the Holy Scriptures; and therefore. there
Is no Impression or conception Of the minI
that may not find corresponding picture
no thirst for excellence that may not NEE
with lis full supply, aud no condition o
humanity necessarily excluded from tn
unlimited scope OF adoption and of sympa
thy cOmprehended in the language an
spirit of the Holy Bible.
How gracious, then--how wonderful an
harmonious. is that ma este plan by whc
one ethereal principle, like an electric chai
flight and lite, extends through the YER
elements of our existence giving music 4
language, elevation to thought, vitality t.
feeling and intensity and power and beaut,
and happiness to the exercise of every fac
ully of the soul!