thou-sand pounds. Tre-men-dous thought! Should a house fall up-on us with half that force, it would break ev-e-ry bone of our bo-dies. Yet so wise-ly has the Di-vine Be-ing con-tri-ved the air, and so nice-ly ba-lan-ced its dread-ful pow-er, that we suf-fer not from the weight of it: we e-ven en-joy the load. The air, though too weak to sup-port our flight, is the great tho-rough-fare for the wing-ed tribe. Here the whole com-mon-wealth of birds roam at large, be-yond the reach of foes. Were they to run up-on the earth, they would be in ten thou-sand dan-gers, with-out strength to re-sist, or speed to es-cape them: where-as, by mount-ing up-wards, they are se-cure from per-il; they scorn the horse and his ri-der. Well may we ex-claim, O God! how ter-ri-ble, yet how kind, good, and gra-cious art Thou in all thy works.

Fre-quent-ly in the Ho-ly Scrip-tures is God com-par-ed to a foun-tain: in u-ni-son with which i-de-a, the bless-ings of sal-va-tion which flow from Him may well be call-ed a "riv-er." In al-lu-sion to the depths of "its streams," the Prophet E-zé-ki-el speaks of this riv-er as proceed-ing "from un-der the thresh-old of the sanc-tu-a-ry, and from the side of the al-tar," where they u-sed to of-fer sa-cri-fice. Be-ing brought

to it by the hea-ven-ly mes-sen-ger, who had been sent to in-struct him, he was made to pass through its wa-ters, which, in the first in-stance, rose only "to his an-kles." On be-ing brought to an-oth-er place, he found the "wa-ters up to his knees," and at an-oth-er place, "up to his loins ;" and then, a lit-tle fur-ther on, it was "out of the depth of a-ny man." Now this gives us a most just, clear, and beau-ti-ful im-age of the Gos-pel; which, on our first ap-proach to it, is so shal-low, that the ve-ri-est child may walk in it with per-fect ease; but, as we ad-vance in it, we find yet deep-er truths; till, at last, its mys-te-ries are un-a-ble to be fath-om-ed by a-ny cre-a-ted in-tel-lect. Noth-ing can be more simple than the great lead-ing truth of sal-va-tion by faith in the Lord Je-sus Christ: a child that can but just run may read," and a way-far-ing man, though a fool, may un-der-stand it. But when we at-tempt to ex-plore the love of Christ display-ed in it, we 'find "a length, a breadth, a depth, and a height," that ve-ry great-ly surpass-es a-ny fi-nite pow-er to com-pre-hend.

A poor wo-man u-sed to ap-pear of-ten be-fore Phi-lip, King of Ma-ce-don, to sue for au-di-ence, and to be-seech him to ter-mi-nate her law-suit; but Phi-lip al-ways told her he had no time.

Be-ing en-rag-ed at these re-fu-sals which had been so often re-peat-ed, she re-pli-ed one day with e-mo-tion: "If you have not time to do me jus-tice, be no long-er king." Phi-lip was strong-ly af-fect-ed with this re-proof, which his own conduct had just-ly call-ed for, and so far from be-ing of-fend-ed with the poor wo-man, he attend-ed to her re-quest that in-stant; and ev-er af-ter-wards was more punc-tu-al in giv-ing audi-ence. He be-came sen-si-ble, that, as king, he ought to do strict jus-tice to all; e-ven to the mean-est and most hum-ble of his sub-jects.

Ev-e-ry one ad-mires the ma-jes-tic horse. With how rap-id ca-reer does he bound a-long the plain! Yet the grass-hop-per springs forward with a bound far more for-ci-ble. The ant, too, when we con-sid-er his size, ex-cels him both in swift-ness and strength; and will as-cend heights which the most un-daunt-ed cours-er dares not at-tempt to scale. If the snail moves more slow-ly, she has how-ev-er no need to go the same way twice o-ver; be-cause, when-ev-er she de-parts, wher-ev-er she re-moves, she is al-ways at home. The ea-gle, it is true, en-joys the pri-vi-lege of pin-i-ons that out-strip the wind. Yet nei-ther is that poor out-cast, the grov-el-ling mole, neg-lect-ed by Di-vine Pro