Russets the plain, in- | spiring autumn | gleams, Should fate comOf the green earth, Rivers un- | known to mand me to the | farthest | verge to distant, | barbarous | climes, song, where | first the | sun | Gilds | Indian | mountains, or his | setting | beam | | Flames on the Atlantic | isles, | | Since God is ever | present, In the void waste as in the | cities | full: |17| And where | He | vital | breathes there must be joy. | When | e'en at | last the | solemn | hour shall | come, | And wing my | mystic | flight to | future | worlds, | will o- | bey; || There, with | new | I cheerful powers, Will rising wonders | sing: I cannot go Where universal | love | smiles not a- | round, | Sustaining all yon | orbs | and | all their | suns; | From seeming | evil | still e- | ducing | good, | And better thence a- | gain, and | better | still, | | ◄ | In | infinite pro- | gression. But I lose || My- | self in | Him, ||in| light in- | effable! 771 Come, then, ex- | pressive | Silence, muse His | praise. THOMSON. 1. STAND! WARREN'S ADDRESS. the ground's your own, my | braves, | Will ye give it | up to | slaves? | 99 | Read it on yon | bristling | steel! || Ask it ye who | will. 1991 2. Fear ye | foes who | kill for | hire? |77| Will ye to your homes re- | tire? Look behind you! they're a- | fire! | And before you, see Who have done it! From the | vale | On they come! - and I will ye | quail ?—|77| 3. In the God of | battles | trust! || Die we | may —and | die we | must;|77| Be con- signed | so well, As where heaven its | dews shall | shed, | of human wisdom, it does not | draw its | life from is a sub- | lime and pregnant | burden in | this | prayer. | It is the aspi- | ration of | every | soul that goes | forth in the | spirit of re- | form. For | what is the sig- | nificance of this prayer? |77|77|7 It | is a pe- | tition that | all holy influences would | penetrate, due and dwell in the heart of man, institutions of error and | wrong a-way; so would | sin | die out and sub- | un- | til he from the So would the | and the human | soul | living in harmony with the di- | vine will, this | earth would be- | come like | heaven. | 177/7/7 It is too late for the re- | formers to sneer | at Christianity; it is foolishness for them to re- | | ject it. In it are en- | shrined our | faith in | human | progress, our confidence in re- | form. It is in- | dis solubly connected with all that is hopeful, | spiritual, | capable, in man. it, That men have misunderstood. and per- verted it, is true. | But it is also || true that the noblest | efforts for | human melio- | ration | took your conduct from the | line of | Christian phi- | losophy, come from your | tombs and | answer! 17717111 Come, Howard, from the | gloom of the prison, and the | taint of the | lazar-house, and show us what phi- | lanthropy can do Jesus. forest, when im | bued with the | spirit of | where the red man listens to the word of life; 1 come, | Penn, from thy | sweet | counsel and | weapon less victory, and show us what Christian | zeal and | Christian love can accomplish with the rudest bar- | barians, or the fiercest | hearts. Come, Raikes, from thy labors with the ignorant and the poor, and | show us with | what an | eye this | faith re- | gards I the lowest and least of our | race; 1 and how | diligently it | labors, not for the body, not for the | | And ye, who are a great number; nameless | ones, spheres, con- tent to fore- | go re- |nown on | and seeking your re- | ward in the | record on | high, || how | lofty a | | the re- | ligion the | humble, and the weak. 1777 Go | forth, then, | spirit of |1 | | Chris- | tianity, | to thy great | work of re- | form! The past bears | witness to thee in the blood of thy | martyrs, and the | ashes of thy | saints and | heroes; the present is hopeful be- | cause of thee; future shall ac- | knowledge thy om- | nipotence. 191991 the NINTH CHAPTER OF JOHN. AND as Jesus | passed | by, he | saw a man which was blind from his | birth. |111| And his dis- | ciples | asked him, saying, | Master, who did | sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, | Neither hath | this | man | sinned, | nor his | parents: || but that the | works of | God | should be | made | manifest in him. | I must | work the | works of him that sent | |