MOUNT SINAI.
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President Durbin, afler he had visited this re nOwned and holy mountain and filled with thu vast associations of the spot broke forth into thu following beautiful train of thOughr. when contem plating the scene anew, with his pen in hand to re cord the sentiment: .....r.: u ....

 I have stood upon the Alps in the middle o June, and looked abroad upon their snowy empire '-I have stood upon the A1pines, and looked abroad upon the plains of Beautiful, eventful Italy -I have stood upon the Albanian Mount, and be. held the scene of the Eneiad from the Circeau pronontory, over the Campagno, to the eternal ci. ty and the mountains of TivoliI have sat upon the pyramids ot Egypt, and cast my eyes over the sa. cred city of Hellopolis, the land of Goshen, the fields of Jewish bondage, and the ancient Memphis where Moses and Aaron on the part of God and his people, contended with Pharaoh and his servants the death of whose first born of man and beast r one night filled the land with wailing; but have never set foot on any spot, from whence was view ec so much stern, gloomy grandeur, heightened by the silence and solitude that reigns around, but in- fnitely more heightened by the awful and sacred associations of the first great revelation Tn form from God to man. I feel oppressed with the spirit that breathes around and seems to inhaht this holy place. shall never sit down on the summit of Si. mai again, and look upon the silent and empty plains at its feet, but shall go down better man and aim so to live as to escape the thunders at the last day, which once reverberated through these mountains, but have long since given way to the Gospel of Peace. I can scarcely tear myself away from the hallowed summit, and wish l, too, could finger forty days in converse with the Lord.'