The  children's  hymn  is  very  sweet  and  true: —

"There  is  beauty  all  around
When  there's  love  at  home  ;
There  is  joy  in  every  sound

When  there's  love  at  home."

2.  In  national  relations  we  know  how  certain  it  is  that
in  unit;/  there  is  strength.  All  the  blessings  of  national
life  are  scattered  before  the  winds  of  discord  ;  but  up*  in  a
united  people  prosperity  and  peace  are  sure  to  descend
even  as  dew  upon  the  mountains  from  Hermon  unto
Zion.     Our  own  nation  is  known  as  the  "  United  Si

or  as  it  is  more  briefly  expressed,  the  "Union."  In  the
very  terms  there  is  a  teaching  of  the  fact  that  our
national  vigor  and  prosperity,  our  good  name  among
nations,  nay,  our  very  life  depend  upon  the  preservation
of  those  bonds  by  which  the  widely-separated  sections  of
the  country  are  united  into  one  nation — "Distinct  like
the  billows,  yet  one  like  the  sea."

3.  It  is  in  the  matter  of  religious  and  church  life,  how-
ever, that  we  need  here  most  to  consider  the  lesson  which
the  dew  brings  us.  The  prosperity  ^f  the  Church  of
Jesus  Christ,  its  glory  and  beauty  in  the  eyes  of  the
nations,  must  ever  depend  upon  the  spirit  of  brotherly
love  which  it  maintains.  It  has  often  been  a  reproach  to
the  Church  Universal  <>r  Catholic  that  it  is  divided  into
many  sections  6?  u       I         In  so  for  as  this  has  any  just

cause,  it  is  our  duty,  and   it   ought  to  be  our  pleasure,  to

labor  to  remove  it.  First,  however,  we  require  to  know
what  is  the  true  ground  of  reproach  in  the  premises.
