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lives and in death they not divided they were SWIM
ter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.
Ye daughters OF Israel, weep Saul who clo,bed
you in scarlet with other delights who put ornaments
How the mighty fallen In the midst ofthe battle -
Jonathan. thou vast slain in thine high places.
am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan; very
pleasant hast thou been unto thy love won
derfu passing the love Of woman.
How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons Of war
persisted
There is an instance of maternal affection recon
ded in IN e 2lst chapter of the same book, which
IN speaking OF the strength of human passions ought
not to be passed over without notice. II is where
David was commanded to destroy the remnant OF
the house OF Saul, and seven sons of the late king
were delivered up into his hand, but he spared Me-
phlbosheth, the son OF Jonathan, because of the
LORDS oath mat was between David and Jonathan.
But the king took the two Rizpah the daughter
Of Allah, whom she bare unto SAUL Armoni and Mephi
bosheth and the five of Mchai the daughter of
lai the Mehoathie.
And he delivered them into tho hands of the Gbeones
and they hanged them in the hill before the Lord and
they fell all together and put to death in tho
days OF harvest in the first days. in beginning OF bar
And Rzpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and
spread it Tor her upon the rock from the beginning Of
and suffered neither the birds OF the air to rest on themby
day nor the beasts oil the field by night.
OF all the instances, imaginary or real, handed
down to us by fable or history, we have not one OF
a more intense and devoted love than this. A soil
ary woman seated upon a rock, watching the vast
ing bodies OF her two dead sons, day after day
night after night no shelter but the open
py OF heaven--nO repose but the sackcloth spread
upon the rock; an emblem of her own abasement--
hope but TO see the lastthe very last of all she
loved-no consolation but her constancy-no sup
port but the magnitude OF her own ncommunicabe
grief. 1t was the beginning OF harvest, and the feet
OF busy multitude might come and go beneath
that solitary rock-the shout of gladness-he accla-
nation ofthe JOYOUS reapers might be heard from
the valleys below; but there she sat in her oneli-
ness upon the dismal watch tower of DEATH faithful
to her silent and cred trust, suffering neither the
birds OF the air to rest on them by day the beasts
of the field by night.
great proportion of the Holy Scriptures is not
only poetlca, but real poetry. Under this head the
song of Moses, and the children of Israel, is tho
first instance that occurs In this song, the pas
sage OF the children of Israel through the Red Sea-
the overthrow OF Pharaoh's host, and the wonder
full dealing of the Lord with his chosen people,
are commemorated in language highly fisurative
and sublime.
We now conclude this minute examination of
the Scriptures not only because it is unnecessary
for our purpose to pursue it further but because
should soon arrive at those portions of the sacred
record, which consist entirely of poetry, the most
genuine and sublime. We have already seen
enough to convince that the same principle
which Is associated with our highest intellectual
enjoyments, IS dIfiused -copously dlfused through
out the written revelation OF eternal truth, a revea
ton whose wonderful adaptation 70 every variety of
human nature, feeling, and condition, carries along
with 1t the cearest evidence OF its divine authority
Coeval with the infancy OF time, it still remains and
widens in the circle OF its intelligence Simple as
the language OF child, it charms the most astl-
dious taste. Mourniul as the voice Of grief, it
reaches to the highest pitch of exultaton. In
telllglbe to the unlearned peasant, 1t supplies
the critic and the sage with food for ear
nest thought. Silent and secret as the reproos
of conscience, il echoes beneath the vaued dome
OF The cathedral and shakes the trembling multi
tude. The last companion of the dying and the
destitute, il seals the bridal vow, and crowns the
majesty Of kings. Closed in the needless grasp of
the luxurious and the sothfuI, it unfolds its awful
record over the yawning grave Sweet, and gen.
N ths MIR m hear nIapa
and threatens against the unawakened mind.
Bright and Joyous as the morning star to the be.
nlghted traveller, it rolls like the waters of the de-
LUCE over the path of him who wi ltuy mistakes his
way And, finally, adapting itself to every shade of
human character and to every grade Of moral feel
ing, lnstructs the Ignorant, woos the gentle, con-
soes the afflicted, encourages the Responding,
r0uses the negligent threatens the rebeious,
strikes horne to the reprobate, and condemns the
guilty.
1t may be observed that all this might have been
effected without the insrumentay of the principle
OF poetry; and go unquestonaby it might, had the
Creator OF the human heart meet to adapt il
different means OF instruction but that heart is
constituted, the delicate touches of feeling to be
found in every part OF the Holy Scriptures accord
peculiarly with its sensibilties the graceful orna-
ments which adorn the language of the bible cor
respond to the Impressions has received, the ideas
which have consequently been formed OF the princi-
pies OF taste and beauty; and by no other medium
that we capable of conceivng, could the human
heart have been more forciby assured Of the truths
to which belong eternal life.
Had the bible been without its poetcal character,
we should have wanted the voice of an angel to re-
commend 1t to the acceptance Of mankind Prone
as we are to neglect this banquet upon which the
| most exalted mind may freely and fully feast, we
| should then have regarded it with tenold dsdain.
But such is the unlimited goodness OF him who
knew from the beginning what was in the heart OF
man, that not only the wide creation Is so designed
as to accord with our views of what is magnificent
| and beautiful and thus to remind us Of his
| glory but even the record of his mme-
date dealing with his rational and responsible
lures isso filled with the true melody of language,
as to harmonise with all our tender, refined and
elevated thoughts With our established ideas OF
beauty, and grace, and pahos, and sublimty, either
concentrated in the mnutest point, or extended to
the widest range, we can derive from the Scriptures
fund OF qualification not to be found in any other
memorial of past or present time. From the worm
that groves in the dust beneath Feet to the track
OF the levlathan in the foamng deep-from the moth
that corrups the secret treasure, to the eagle that
| scars above his eyry in the couds-irom the wild
ass in the desert, to the lamb within the shepherds
fod-from the consuming locus, to the cattle upon
thousand hlls-rom the rose of Sharon TO the ce-
| dar OF Lebanon-trom The crystal stream gushing
| forth out OF the fnty rock to the wide waters OF
| the deluge-trom The barren waste to the fruitful
vineyard, and the land flowing with milk and honey
from the lonely path OF the wanderer, to the gahe-
| ring OF mighty mutitude-frcm the tear that falls
10 secret, to the din Of battle, and the shout OF II
triumphant hos.rom the solitary in the wilderness
| TO the sarap on his throne-from the meurner clad
IN sackcloh to the prince in purple robes-from the
cravings OF the worm that dieth not, TO the sera-
phlc visions OF the blest-from the still small vcice.
| to the hunders of COMPREHENSION the depths of
hell, te the regions OF eternal glory there is no de-
gree OF beauty or deiormity, no tendency to good or
evil, no shade Of darkness CLEAN OF light, which
does not come within the cognzance OF the Holy
Scriptures; and therefore there is no impression
conception of the mind hat may not find cores.
ponding picture, no thirst for excellence that may
not meet with its full supply and condition Of hui
many necessarily excluded from the unlimited
scope of adaptation and Of sympathy comprehended
in the language and the spirit of the Bible.
Hpxyp pIn then- (,,t a,I
NOUS, is that majestic plan by which one ethereal
principle, like an electric chain of light and life ex-
tends through the very elements Of our existence,
giving music to language, elevation to thought Vita
hyto feeling, and intensity, and power and beauty,
and happiness, TO the exercise of every faculty OF