LESSON CI. Why are Springs enthroned so high? 1. WHY are springs enthroned so high, 2. Why have clouds such lofty flight, 3. Why does God exalt the great? 4. Riches why doth He confer?— 5. Does He light a Newton's mind?- 6. Reader, whosoe'er thou art, 7. Hast thou power?-the weak defend. 8. Called a blessing to inherit, Bless, and richer blessings merit : LESSON CII. To an Infant. 1. THY bark now launched, with sails unfurled, Must oft by waves be tossed in danger; Yet welcome to this stormy world, Thou helpless stranger. 2. Thy morning dawns, all cloudless-fair- 3. And many friends are watching near, For all is smiling. 4. But do not let thy bosom dream That thou canst live thus free from trouble; For thou must sail on sorrow's stream, Thyself a bubble. 5. The cloudless heavens soon may lower, 6. Or shouldst thou live a few short years, Tossed by the storms of Passion's shapingThine eyes must oft be wet with tears There's no escaping. 7. Thy friends must leave thee, one by one, O! may some Angel guard thy way, The shores of Heaven. LESSON CIII. The Family Bible. 1. How painfully pleasing the fond recollection The seats of their offspring as ranged on each hand, And that richest of books, which excelled every otherThe Family Bible that lay on the stand; The old-fashioned Bible, the dear blessed Bible, 2. That Bible, the volume of God's inspiration, At morning and evening could yield us delight, 3. Ye scenes of tranquillity, long have we parted; My hopes almost gone, and my parents no more; And wander unknown on a far distant shore. LESSON CIV. The Evening Hymn of the Jewess. 2. By day along the astonished lands, Forsaken Israel wanders lone; Our fathers would not know Thy ways, 5. But present still, though now unseen! 6. And, oh, when stoops on Judah's path 7. Our harps we left by Babel's streams, And mute are timbrel, trump, and horn. LESSON CV. Avoid Hasty Opinions. 1. In many things which we do, we ought not only to consider the mere naked action itself, but the persons who act, the persons toward whom, the time when, the place where, the manner how, the end for which, the action is done, together with the effects that must, or that may follow, and all other surrounding circumstances. 2. These things must necessarily be taken into our view, in order to determine whether the action, indifferent in itself, is either lawful or unlawful, good or evil, wise or foolish, decent or indecent, proper or improper. 3. Let me give a plain instance for the illustration of this matter. Mario kills a dog; which, considered merely in itself, seems to be an indifferent action. Now, the dog was Timon's, and not his own. This makes it look unlawful. But Timon bid him do it. This gives it an appearance of lawfulness again. 4. It was done at church, and in time of divine service. These circumstances added, cast on it an air of irreligion. But the dog flew at Mario, and put him in danger of his life. This relieves the seeming impiety of the action. But Mario might have escaped by flying thence. Therefore, the action appears to be improper. 5. But the dog was known to be mad. This further circumstance makes it almost necessary that the dog should be slain, lest he might attack the assembly, and do much mischief. Yet again, Mario killed him with a pistol, which he happened to have in his pocket, since yesterday's journey. Now, hereby the whole congregation was terrified and discomposed, and divine service was broken off. This car ries in it an appearance of great indecency and impropriety. 6. But, after all, when we consider a further circumstance, that Mario, being thus violently assaulted by a mad dog, had no way of escape, and had no other weapon about him, it seems to take away all color of impropriety, indecency, or unlawfulness, and to allow, that the preservation of one or many lives may justify the act as wise and good. Now, all these concurrent appendices of the action ought to be surveyed, in order to pronounce with justice and truth concerning it. 7. There are a multitude of human actions in private life, in domestic affairs, in traffic, in civil government, in courts of justice, in schools of learning, &c., which have so many complicated circumstances, aspects, and situations, with regard to time and place, persons and things, that it is impossible for any one to pass a right judgment concerning them, without entering into most of these circumstances, and surreying them extensively, and comparing and balancing them all aright. 8. Whence, by the way, I may take occasion to say, how many thousands there are, who take it upon them to pass their censures on the personal and domestic actions of |