REFLECTIONS IN SPRING.
There is no way in which the young man can better learn the sentiments of devotion, or the old preserve them, than by cultivating those habits of thought and observation which convert the scenes of nature into the temple of God ; which make us see the Deity in every appearance we behold, and change the world, in which the ignorant and the thoughtless see only the reign of time and chance, into the kingdom of the living and ever-present God of the Universe. Reflec tions of this kind arise very naturally amidst the sceneß we at present behold. In the beautiful language of the wise man — "The winter is over and gone, the flowers appear on the earth, and the time of the siuglng of birds is come." In these mo meats we are witnessing the most beautiful and astonishing spectacle that nature ever presents to our view. The earth, as by an annual miracle, arises as it were from her grave, into life and beauty. It ig, ia a pe culiar manner, the season of happiness. The vegetable world is spreading beauty and fra grance amidst the dwellings of men. The auimal creation is rising iuto life ; millions of seen, and myriads ot unseen beings, are enjoying their new-born existence ; and hail ing with inarticulate voice the Power which gave them birth. Ia there a time when we can better learn the goodness of the universal God ? Is it not wise to go abroad into nature, and associate His name with every thing which at this seasou delights the eye and gratifies the heart. — Alison.
A THRILLING SCENE.
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