dom; it is enclosed by mountains; it is divided by rivers; it

is washed by seas; the inhabitants thereof are countrymen ; they speak the same language; they make war and peace together; a king is the ruler thereof. Many kingdoms and countries full of people, and islands, and large continents, and different climates, make up this whole world-God governeth it. The people swarm upon the face of it like ants upon a hillock; some are black with the hot sun; some cover themselves with furs against the sharp cold; some drink of the fruit of the vine £

some the pleasant milk of the cocoa-nut and others quench their thirst with the running stream.

All are God's family; he knoweth every one of them, as a shepherd knoweth his flock; they pray to him in different languages, but he understandeth them all; he heareth them all ; he taketh care of all; none are so great that he cannot punish them; none are so mean that he will not protect them.

Negro woman, who sittest pining in captivity, and weepest over thy sick child: though no one seeth thee, God seeth thee;

though no one pitieth thee, God pitieth thee; raise thy voice, forlorn and abandoned one; call him from amidst thy bonds,

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for assuredly he will hear thee.

Monarch, that rulest over a hundred states; whose frown is terrible as death, and whose armies cover the land, boast not thyself as though there were none above thee:-God is above thee; his powerful arm is always over thee; and if thou doest ill, assuredly he will punish thee.

Nations of the earth, fear the Lord; families of men, call upon the name of your God. Is there any one whom God

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hath not made? let him not worship him: is there any one whom he hath not blessed? let him not praise him.

HYMN IX.

COME, let us walk abroad; let us talk of the works of God.

Take up a handful of the sand; number the grains of it; tell them one by one into your lap. Try if you can count the blades of grass in the field, or the leaves on the trees.

You cannot count them, they are innumerable; much more the things which God has made. The fir groweth on the high mountain, and the grey willow bends above the stream.