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and benerotnce influenced the radiation of its
heat. 1t is not strange to me that men worship
ped the sun nay, that alteration seems to de-
note much elevation of mind, much advance
rnent of intellect Something of natural science
was involved in the purified idolary, which
blessed the cause of summer and winter, seed
time and harvest and was to the worshpper
token and d means of day, and became, by its
absence, the cause of night. The earth seemed
to TEEN as of itself with objects and animation,
at least of vegetable liie but it was the sun,
(and they saw i',) which gave form and color
to the products. | look from my window now,
and the buds that have been almost hidden from
sight during winter are swelling into size, and
giving promise of fruit and of foliage, in the in.
huences Of the ife-giving sun. The westwind
comes down to us, chilled by the mountain snow
over which it passes, and two pigeons have gath
cred in the lea of a chimney, on the opposite
house, and basking in the direct and reflected
beams of the sun, are cooling and billing, IN Sab
bath HYMNS of love. The sun has awaken them
too, and all the mysterious fountains of nature
are released. The sun.w"rshippers saw this,
and other things of like character; they studied,
combined, compared, traced back the influences
to the mediate cause, and true to the instinc, of
the heart, they adored. The altar rose, the VIC
tim was inundated. the sacrfcial flame licked
up the blood ; and man wo7shipped--not the
God, but his chariot wheel OF fire, that conceal
ed the divinity above--a wheel instinct with
light, perhaps. but not OF intelligence. There is
movement in the streets below, as if the pop
ulation of the place were marching to the sound
of bells The inhabitants and the visters are
going to worship. They have an altar, at which
they bow, and an object of alteration, in whose
presence they stand but it is not the sun, it is
not the ligh, Of day. A revelation has been
made, and the altar to that lumlnary has crum-
bled away; the fire has ceased to burn and the
worship is forbidden. Yet is not the heat, or the
influence Of the sun, less than it was, nor is Its
iphtness dimmcd; it goes forth, day by day. If
If the same glory that marked its progress, wher
y it frs, took up its course amid the anthems
IS Tn. lesser lights, when the morning stars san!
Of torc,her' But the revelation of higher cause
II. the source and fountain Of all of life and light
e has been made That which was hidden be
N meath the glory above the chariot, dim with eX
$, cessive Brightness has been made visible +
he faith and alteration, and worship, and love
I'd which the uniformed heart poured out to vast
to before created things, have been elevated to tn
Creator and men have risen above the calcuIa
tons of the elements of stars and planets, TO To
contemplation, if not comprehension, OF Hin
from whose hands these orbs were launched il
to the imtabe void types only of his powe
evidences of his goodness offerings on til
great pare Of nature, indicative of spirit b,
in yond unseen, invisible, yet felt in all his work
til How poor, how low all alteration seems, that
ed not guided by this revelation that does not il
We clude the cause When once the motive, al
is not the act, is to be the criterion; when the m
to tive rather is to qualify the act, then how nece
of sary to worship becomes an object that CT
If search the heart and try the reins 1t has bee
s par, of the blessings of this revelation, tn
all while the proper object of worship has been pr
lid sented, the proper manner has also been dlsclo
Ter ed Not the form Of the temple, nor the for
ra- of worship--lhcse are the lesser appliances a
err. outward, but assist the sense--the motive, Il
Mt principle, and the end are proposed, and the
ely constitute the means of acceptabllitv. All
ich natural in spiritual life as in physical life. II.
N: means directly applied upon susceptible objec
ter produce ends, and the neglect leaves desral
pes ends dependent upon which we may not Gale
ma late. The budding of the tree at my window,
''ul the consequence of its exposure to the dire
ana rays of tho eau, and its shelter in the early tw
The from the blasts of the mountain air. Thus ph
are slea causes favorable, have produced physc
pu- good effects. The flock of little children whit
car now see in their trim holiday clothes, are win
''"' ny ''e'' way ia the Sunday School. Beautif
an sheler from the unwhoiesome blights of o,
ing communication; delightful withdrawal from o
re- posure, that might nip in the bud the hear
ned best affections, and thus sheltered, thew a
Piaced III The hsht and heat OF that l,u~e,, ~
ron qnlckens our higher nature, and makes it pro
it table 10 endless beauty. The pigeons on the @
ar poste roof, (hey are there now0 confessed
to their movements, delicate and graceful, the &c
rm eral influence of vernal sun, into whose lear
is they had thrown themselves. 1t is thus II
the animal life acknowledges and responds a
eek shall n 1t our children, and we, by placing @,
star selves within the operation of spiritual warm
Gus feel the quickenng influences, and learn I
good lesson, the soul of all worship. the incen
rey that MAKE every sacrifice acceptable, viz
s it love one another
un- I'll go to church, and see what is the effe
the 1t will be sad commentary on the revelati
} in of love, to hear the passions appealed to, a
Ira prejudlces revived, and hatred and all unkir
ness provoked. Thine, THE EDITOR
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lshes ~ Singapore, near the equator. II
ties; raised from the nut in nurseries, where j, :
|, mains till the fifth year, when II puts forth