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of other far more precious graces of the Spirit, yea, even of that purity of heart without which none can see God; while he who possessed it not, might be endowed with other gifts of the Holy Ghost, by means of which he too would be enabled to glorify God, and to serve the generation amongst whom he was called upon to labour.

THE HIGHLAND EAGLE.

DEAR MADAM,

CIRCUMSTANCES have of late, recalled the following fact to my remembrance, which was communicated to me by a devoted young minister of the Church of Scotland, since departed to his rest. And as nought can be deemed uninteresting, which tends to explain the imagery of God's word, you may perhaps feel disposed to give it a corner in your Christian Lady's Magazine.

In a Highland parish, where a friend of this clergyman resided, an Eagle one day fell down at the door of a cottage, quite exhausted, and apparently half dead. It was a very old bird, and some of the children laid it beside the fire to die. The poor thing, however, did not die. It took no food for

several days, seemed in great pain-lost all its feathers-its claws-and lastly, as if to complete its misery—its beak fell off. The family were very kind to the poor Eagle, they nursed it with great care, and to their surprise saw a new beak, in the place of the old one. New feathers began to cover its bodynew claws appeared-and the whole creature seemed changed into a young full-grown bird; which one day flew out of the door and left its benefactors. Does not this throw light upon Psalm ciii. 5. — “Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things: so that thy youth is renewed like the Eagle." I confess I never understood this passage of Scripture before, and now never hear it, nor read it, without thinking of my departed friend's HIGHLAND EAGLE.

V.

ROMANS XI.

IT is necessary to examine the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Romans with great attention; some of us have been in the habit of making a full stop after these words, " And so all Israel shall be saved." While in fact, the sense runs on without any check or pause. It is distinctly stated, that "so all Israel shall be saved as it is written" in a particular part of the Scripture which is quoted,-Isaiah lix. 19-21.Rev. A. Dallas.

FEMALE BIOGRAPHY OF SCRIPTURE.

THE QUEEN OF SHEBA.

No. III.

In our present state of being, we are unequal to the long endurance of any profound emotion. Nature either teaches us to controul such feelings, by the sense of anguish they impart, or else corporal exhaustion brings a friendly intermission to their vehemence; until those impressions from whence they arose are somewhat faded from the mind. Even religious joy, the mildest, as well as the purest of the soul's affections, has here a limitation to its indulgence, which cannot be safely overpassed. The soul, when raised to the height of this enjoyment, feels how inadequate is its force to sustain it; much less to endure its augmentation; and soon, with languid sense, learns to repress an emotion too powerful for its present state of being. The time will doubtless come, when, (after the resurrection from the dead) incorruptible human nature will be able to endure that fulness of joy which is the portion of those who see God: but mortality would soon be rent asunder by the uninterrupted continuance of emotions which only angelic or beatified natures may retain, and live.

The first entrance upon any course, is that which by a beneficent arrangement of providence, is commonly marked with keenest emotions. How could the stripling prepare himself for the strife of life, if there was within him the sad and sober spirit of one whom age has forced from the scene, and who has seen the garlands snatched with toil and skill from his compeers, fade on his own, to bloom on the brows of others, his successors in the course ? Therefore, life in its earlier stages is gladdened with intense sensations and invigorating hopes; and man begins his earthly career with an impetus, which serves to endear his progress, until the attraction of duty, or the force of habit, has bound him to his sphere. The same rule obtains also on the entrance upon a religious life. The soul newly awakened to a sense of the love of God in reconciling Himself to enemies, impressed, too, with lively perception of, and ardent thirst after holiness, and with the vision of the glory and blessedness of the life to come, has at such a period, emotions of joy unspeakable; and comforts, and consolations, which do not, and are not intended always to attach to its course. Such emotions are earnests of that final reward reserved for the victorious: a few grapes from the vineyards of the Good Land, whose flavour (intensely grateful in the wilderness) animates the desire to go up and possess it. If the long-tried servant of God possesses the peace which passeth understanding, it is the heart of the new convert which most frequently experiences the excitement of religious joy.

"It is said,” (remarks Bishop Horne,) "of the Queen of Sheba, that, upon behodling the pleasantness of Jerusalem, the splendours of Solomon's court,

and above all the magnificence of the temple and the services performed there, there was no more spirit in her." The sacred narrative seems to imply, that it was after divine service in the temple, and the offering up of the burnt sacrifice, that she experienced that swoon which the sacred historian has thought fit to record. The temporary loss of consciousness is frequently attendant upon strong emotion; and what circumstances could have tended more powerfully to call forth the emotions of religious joy, than the first admission of the royal convert among the worshippers on Mount Moriah? There have been men, and classes of men, who affect to despise the externals of religion; and who study to divest the worship of Almighty God of all that can strike the imagination, or move the soul; lest, in the mingled emotions of its intellectual and physical nature, the spirit should fix itself with less intense gaze upon the vision of faith; or contract some fancied alloy by gratification of its lower faculties. True, indeed it is, for Christ Himself hath spoken it, "they who worship God must worship Him in spirit and in truth." But an Apostle of Christ was instructed to add, that man must worship God with the spirit, and with the understanding also: with full play of the faculties of intellect; with unfettered reason, grateful memory, and soaring fancy, as well as with all the passions of the soul, love, joy, hope, fear, filial confidence and lowliest awe. He must be something more or less than man, whose devotion knows no change, whether he kneels to bless his God in his solitary chamber, or joins the choir where members of the church militant unite "with angels, and archangels, and all the company of heaven," in lauding and magnifying His

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