SERIOUS REFLECTIONS.

THE GOD or NATURE.
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Lift your view tothe immense arch OF nea-
ven which encompasses you above. Behold
the sun in all its splendor rolling over head
by day; and the moon by night, in mild and
serene majesty surrounded with that host of
stars which present to our imagination an in
Vulnerable multitude of worlds. Listen to
the awful voice of thunder---Lsten to the
roar of the tempest and the occan-Survcy
the wonders that fill the earth which you in
habit. Contemplate steady and powerful
hand, bringing round spring and summer, au-
tumn and winter, in regular course; decora-
ting this earth with enumcrablc beauties
dversifying it with innumerable inhabitants,
pouring forth comforts on all that live ; and
at the same time, overawing the nations with
the violence of the elements, when it plcascs
the Creator to let them forth. After you
have viewed yourselves as surrounded with
such a scene of wonders-after you have be-
held on every hand, sucE an astonishing dis
play Of majesty united with wisdom and good
ncss-are YOU not seized with solemn and
serious awe? Is there not something that
whispers within, that to this great creator
homage and reverence are due by all the ra-
tional beings whom he mades Admitted to
be spectators of his works. placed IN the midst
of SO many great and interesting objects, can
YOU believe that you were brought here forno
purpose, but to immersc yourselves in brutal,
or. at best, in trifing pleasures; lost to all
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Sense of the wonders you behold; lost to all
reverence to that God who gave you being
and who has erected this amazing fabric OF
nature, on which you look onfy with stupid
and unmeaning eyes' Mo- let the scenes which
you behold prompt correspondent feeling
Let them awake you from the degrading in
toxication of liccntiousncss into nobcr emo
tions. Every object which you view in ma
ture, whether great or small, serves to IN
struct you. The star and the insect, the fiery
meteor and flowing spring, the verdant held
and the lofty mountain, al exhibit supreme
Power, before which you ought to tremble
and adore; all preach the doctrines allinspire
the spirit of devotion and reverence RcSara-
ing. then. the zuoyk IF Me Lord, his rising
emotions of awe and gratitude call forth from
vour sonls sentiments as thcsc:-"Lord


wherever am, and whatever ENJOY may
never forget thee, as the anhor OF nature


MAY never forget that ! am thy creature


and thy subject In this magnificent temple


of the universe, where thou hast placed m'


NAV ever be thy faithful worshipper. ant
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may the reverence and fear OF Goa DC th'
FIRST sentiment of my heart" btaf.


The words Of our Saviour" II my King


dom were of this world, then would my serV


ant fight" must signify, to every unpreJu


diced mind, the same as 1t nc haa sai'' "a


my kingdom is not of this world thefeiof'


nv sery ants do not fight