COLUMBIAN FOUNTAIN.

A ALEXANDRIA, VIRsINiA,


November q, 1876.
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ALEXANDRIA, VIRslNiA,


November 8, 1876.
You will confer favor on many Of your friend,
OF this town, by publishing the following most basu-
tiful lines. They were published few week. .go
in the Methodist Protestant


LINES
Suggested on hearing sermon preached against
Atheism-"The fool hath said in his heart, there !.
no God"


lis there no God ?"-go ask the spacious earth,
Whose lofty hills in solemn grandeur rise,
whose wales and mountains haild the morning


birth,
When first the light blush'd in the vaulted skies.
who laid thy firm foundation or what power
Sustains and governs all thy motions still
Art thou the offspring of lucky hour
The selfexsting creature Of thy will !?
Answer, Q Earth land thou, restless Sea-
From the deep bosom of thy coral caves.
rise IN tiny glorious awful majesty,


ana SEND the answer laundering Ger thy waves.
"ls there no God we sparkling orbs above.
AS with peerless radiance ye Shine,
Do not your csaseless evolutions prove
The steady guidance of hand divine.
The earth, the ocean, and the skies attest,
The power and wisdom of great "First causs"
Yet man Got all his works acknowledged best,)
Defies his power and violates his laws.
Rejecting God he crosses life's dark sea,
Without ray of light to cheer its gloom;
Nor hope Of happiness has he,
eternal sleep" is written DER the tomb.
0 may we ever shun that fatal shore,


Where storm-tossed wrecks in countless numbers


lie


Where hopes delusive dreams of Joy are o'sr,
And dark despair frowns meath staress sky.
In life o God may we improve thy grace,
Nor slight the blessings thou has freely given,
Then we with joy may welcome deaths embrace,
And smile in prospect of fadeess heaven.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, Oct. 1896