SERIOUS RnFxEcrIo71s.
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Social ,oorshp agreeable to the best impulses Of


nature.


Sentiments of admiration, love, and joy,
swell the bosom with emotions which seek
for fellowship and communication The
fame indeed may be kndled by silent mus
ing; but when kindled it must infallbly
spread. The devout heart, penetrated
with large and effecting views of the immen-
sity of he works of God. the harmony of his
laws, and the extent of his benifcrnce, bursts
into loud and vocal expressions of praise and
alteration; and from full and overthrowing
sensibility, seeks to oexpand tselfto the utmost
limits OF creation. The mind is forciby car
ricd out of itself, and, embracing the whole
circle OF animated existence, calls ON all
above, around, below, to help to bear the
burden ofits gratitude. Joy is too brlliant-a a
thing to be confined within our bosoms; it
Furnishes all nature, and with its VIVID CO.
Touring gives kind of facttious life to OBJ
jects without sense or motion. There can
not be more striking proof of the social ten
dency of these feelings, than the strong
! propensity we have to suhhose auditors
when there are none. When men arc
| wanting, we address the animal creation;
and rather than have none to partake of our
feelings, we find sentiment in the music of
birds, the hum ot insects, and the low OF
kline: nay, we call on rocks and streams and
forests to witness and share our emotions.
Hence the royal shepherd, sojourning in
caves and solitary waters, calls on the bills
to rejoice, and the floods to clap their hands:
and the lonely poet, wandering in the deep
recesses of uncultivated nature, finds tenn
pie In every solemn grove, and swells his
chorus of praise with the winds that bow
the lofty cedars And can he, who, no,
satisfied with the wide range of animated
existence, calls for the sympathy of the in
animate creation, refuse to worship with his
fellow men! Can he who bids ''Nattire at.
Itend," forget to "join every iiving SOUP il
the universal hymnl Shall we suppose
companions in the stiffness os deserts snt
shall we overlook them amongst friends ant
townsmen9 1t cannot be- Social worship
for the devout heart, is not more a dut
than it is real want.