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 1 in few hours, mass of undistinguishabie ruin. So a single madnan wiih his torch destroyed the temple of Diana at Ephesus. with all its glorious Gfecian xtaiaaTy and inestimahe paintings and so made his own name immortally infamous How patiently how slowly, how unpeFceptibly does nature perform all her great operations which in the remote future are to become blesSlngs to the world In the deep bosonS of the ancient lakes. and on the floor Of the great ocean she slowly de- postses. fer thousands npoa thousands Of years the sediment brought down by the rivers from the dis taIt monatains; and the shells of myriads upon myrads of minute living creatures that she brings into existence to live out their brief ife and de genetation after generafi0n. Down there. far be- neatA the wateFss she hardens these depnsles into rock, and lahorloasly and slowly comblAes the finer particles into veins of gold and Sslvers or chFystallzes them into brilliant gems, the making Of each Of which employs her for ages. Slowly and Binsenabiy these formations rise to the surface, slowly and mpeEcepthly she even lifts up the solid crust Of the earth, the waters recede, and, To dry land, and strata Of limestone and chalk fAon- sands of feet In thickness, thus created with ln- mite toil by our great mother.
 1 So for many long years, age after age. she piled up the eyer-springlng, eyer-dying masses of rank vegetation, the leaves and trunks of the gigantic ferns, under the waters, and there, with the slow agency'ot fire, and tbe pressure of the superin- cumoent tide, hardened them into the vast beds of coal, without which England would soon be des- ert, and on which, more than upon her Constitution and Magma ChaTta are based her enlightenment her wealth, her free institutions; and with which this our empire of soyereigntes IS destined to be- come the queen of the world; folly and fanah cism are not allowed by an imscrutahe Providence to shatter into fragments that Union which all the armies and navles of the earth would aSsaii n vain with then multitudinous thunders.
 | Lo you !-Some prudent and pains taking man, who thinks that il IS not his sole duty to plant NhaGA a kah who desires to do something for future generations, without considering whether 1t will ever be known ! to any mortal on earth, plants tn the ground single small acorn, which otherwise the pigeon or the squirrel would have consumed Tn single in- staHt. After time shoot thrsts itself quietly and l nSenSihly upward, seeAing for the blessing of air and hght, and the delicate roots perce silently yet with an irresistible force sidewayk and downward through the generous and kindly snlI. Day after day. and night after night Il continues to gFowA puts forth it's leaves aud the gentle dews fall soft iy and slowly upon them and the light feeds them, and nature with her potent chemistry, extracts the subtle esse nces the ammonia and the alkaies from the rain and from the earth, and with them nour-
 shes the young shoot, the tender Sapllng, the grace ful tree the aieStic monarch of the forest: and hundreds Of years after the provdent planter of the acorn IS dead the grand -chdFeH of his grand -chal dren sit under its shade; quite upgratefal, per haps, to hun and Providence, as the pig that eats the acorns at it's foot perhaps thankful the mockIng brd that futerS it's tops, restless with delight and joyousness, and there, while hs mate builds her nest or feeds her young high up among its mighty arms, pours out his magnificent hymns and orIsons to God
 The sun shines steadily upon the quiet bosom of the broad blue sea, and the brooks and rlvers and on the continents and islands; and the winds blow steadily and gently over them, and neither sun ncr wind seem to be employed in any great work; nor are we conscious that mighty power IS thus manesting itself. But under their irresls- tible influence nse steadily upward the impefeep- hoie atoms of invisible yapor, one by one, into the realms of the upper air. There gathering together they are condensed into thin white, misty feeees, and then into huge banks of snowy vapof, sahng about like lost ships in tropical sea- and by de- grees unto wlde masses ui storm clouds Then the gentle rains distl upon the green earth, and feed the leaves and flowers, and sink downward and form springs; and the and torrents poured out upon the shoulders of the great mountains, and supply the streams that flow down their sides; and from all the hills and valleys and mountains; from the east and west and north, all great continent, thousands upon thousands, and thou sands 9f miles apart, the springs break forh grow into brooks, and these mic creeks and rivutets, and they into rivers; until the Mississippi and Mis- souri, the Ohio and Arkansas unite to make a great inland sea, flowing onward in irresistible majesty to the ocean, and bearing the wealth and commerce of an empire on its bosom
 And through long succession of centuries, those streams have unweariediy washed away the earth from the mountains, down the rocks unto Impalpable dust. and slowly deposited Il in the great valleys that stretch from the feet of the noun tains to the gulf Oi Mexico; and even cneroachng upon the ocean itself. have pushed back the waters, and created a vast delta of dry land: and so formed system of wide allaylal valleys mex haustble in fertility, and able to feed and support nation greater and more powerful than Imperial Rome
 So # IS wIgh all the great works of nature, moral as well as physical. The two great codes of law which govern all the civilized world have been formed, like the coral and the limestone, sy aeeys- hon. Commencing with few rade pftncipies, axiom after axiom and deduction after deduction has been added, during many centuries, by thou sands Of jnris-consults and judges; aud still the work Of accretion goes on. So il is with the arts and sciences, and with civilization itself The mass oi human knowledge has grown up gradual
 iy, as the chalk formation grows silently under sea; uot lifted up, by asingle Spasnodlc effort, is lands and mouptslns arc thrust into the air when the soieid earth IS tortured by new volcano. Laws not the esase, but the eject of the i'm < proYeIBent and regeneration Of nations. It s the gonEd that grows up iii night; the great oak re- quleEs century: and he who expects to enlighten and renovaie a people, and establish civilization and morality by drafting and enaeting perfect code Of laws. might as reasonably expect te cause ree like the great chestnut of MoanE Elna tO grow toe4ts utmost attitude ID an hoar og temple like that The great King to spring up in night ike the one erected by the Gent; who were slaves to the magle Lamp ef Aladdin.
 Our owa noble and beloved institution has aol been the work of day. 1t 100 has grown up as young oak grows from q tender shoot to a state ly tree Far back m the remote pass, by tfe hgAt Of oaT trad5iloas we can descEy it's shape and form, when Il was but sapling, rude IA it's pro- portions, but heal'hy and vigorous with the ener- gy of young life Since then t has thrust its roots down deeper and deeper towards the soisd
 oandstons ot the earth, and ifsed its head stead- " upward, and pushed forth its branches on every sde. until the nations sit safely under it's shadow Ncf has II always enjoyed the layoring winds and the genrai sun shine. The storrss have hos led among is braucses and stripped of is beayes, and tbe tghtnsng has sHsatsen il with his sSFy aEEows ! Heas yea Rot si1l. my Brothers. the roar Of tue