Unavoidable, from avoid, inevitable, certain, sure. -Glimpses, faint lights, short fleeting enjoyments. Pagan world. How large a part of the world is now pagan? App.

Degradation, from degrade, debasement, act of lowering.

Idolatry, act of worshipping any gods but the True God.

Emancipated, delivered, freed from slavery.

-Retrograde, backward, going backward, go backward. Retarded, impeded, made slow, hindered.

Divinity. What persons deny the divinity of the Bible?

Source, origin. What is the source of Revelation? Speculation, inquiry, abstract thought, questioning. Credulity, easiness of belief, liability to deception. Radiance, brilliant light. What does this denote? Gone down. What is Revelation here made?

Gradual, slow, step by step, by degrees, not sudden.
Decay, diminution, waning, wasting.

Night. What is the source of all this imagery?
Protracted, prolonged, continued, extended.
Generations, from generate, ages, families.

Wonders, wonderful works, acts of mighty power.

Godhead, Divine majesty, Supreme God.

Wilderness. What would this world become, if the Bible were gone?

.Wrapped, covered, concealed, shrouded.

Flood of glory. Why likened to a flood? Impenetrable, from penetrate, the thickest, what cannot be penetrated.

Darkness. Are those parts of the world still dark, which have not the Bible?

Embers, ashes not yet extinguished. Life's last embers, when life is expiring.

Soul to soul, he was gathered unto his people, Gen. 25: 8.-Dust to dust, Gen. 3: 19.

Thy kingdom comes, thy all supporting influence is felt.

Earthborn rapture, delight arising from earthly objects.

Fly, forsake, leave, escape from.

Bright to the soul thy seraph hands convey
The morning dream of life's eternal day-
Then, then, the triumph and the trance begin!
And all the Phoenix spirit burns within!

Oh! deep-enchanting prelude to repose,
The dawn of bliss, the twilight of our woes!
Yet half I hear the parting spirit sigh,
It is a dread and awful thing to die!
Mysterious worlds, untravell'd by the sun !
Where Time's far wand'ring tide has never run,
From your unfathom'd shades, and viewless spheres,
A warning comes, unheard by other ears.

'Tis Heav'n's commanding trumpet, long and loud,
Like Sinai's thunder, pealing from the cloud!
While Nature hears, with terror-mingled trust,
The shock that hurls her fabric to the dust;
And, like the trembling Hebrew, when he trod
The roaring waves, and call'd upon his God,
With mortal terrors clouds immortal bliss,
And shrieks, and hovers o'er the dark abyss!

Daughter of Faith, awake, arise, illume
The dread unknown, the chaos of the tomb!
Melt, and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll
Cimmerian darkness on the parting soul!
Fly, like the moon-ey'd herald of dismay,
Chas'd on his night-steed by the star of day!
The strife is o'er-the pangs of nature close,
And life's last rapture triumphs o'er her woes.
Hark! as the spirit eyes, with eagle gaze,
The noon of Heav'n undazzled by the blaze,
On Heav'nly winds that waft her to the sky,
Float the sweet tones of star-born melody;
Wild as that hallow'd anthem sent to hail
Bethlehem's shepherds in the lonely vale,
When Jordan hush'd his waves, and midnight still
Watch'd on the holy tow'rs of Zion hill!

Soul of the just! companion of the dead! Where is thy home, and whither art thou fled ? Back to its heav'nly source thy being goes, Swift as the comet wheels to whence he rose ; Doom'd on his airy path awhile to burn,

Seraph, seraphic, like a seraph. By what figure are hands ascribed to hope?

Morning dream, vision, foretaste, anticipation.

Trance, ecstacy, the soul is rapt into visions of futurity.

Phoenix spirit, spirit revived and acting with increased vigor. Phenix, the bird which is supposed to exist single, and to rise again from its own ashes. Worlds. What worlds will these characteristics suit? What single word is often applied to them, which excludes the idea of measured duration?

Shades. What world does this word designate?
Trumpet, the summons which calls one hence, with
the attending circumstances and prospects.
Sinai's thunder. See Exodus, XIX. 16–19.
Terror-mingled trust, trust mingled with terror.
Fabric, the human body, any building or edifice.
Trembling Hebrew. Who is meant? See Matt. 14:

28-33.

Shrieks and hovers. Have you witnessed the scene here described? What is meant by abyss?

.Daughter of faith. What is meant? Is faith the parent of all the Christian graces ?

.Spectre, apparition, used of the re-appearance of the dead, whether real or imaginary, and applied to doubts, on account of the similarity in effect.

.Cimmerian, gloomy, infernal; from Cimmerii, plunderers who lived in caves.

Moon-eyed, dim-eyed, having eyes affected by the

moon.

Herald of dismay. What superstitious notion is here recognized?

Steed, a horse for state or war. Why are any of the heavenly bodies represented as borne by steeds? Star-born, of celestial origin.

Anthem sent to hail. See Luke ii. 8-14.

Jordan. Where is this river? What is its course? What circumstances made it memorable in sacred history?

Soul of the just. What figure is here employed?
What is meant by the dead?
Back to its heavenly source. See Eccl. xii. 7.

And doom'd, like thee, to travel, and return.-
Hark! from the world's exploding centre driv'n,
With sounds that shook the firmament of Heav'n,
Careers the fiery giant, fast and far,

On bick'ring wheels, and adamantine car;
From planet whirl'd to planet more remote,
He visits realms beyond the reach of thought;
But, wheeling homeward, when his course is run,
Curbs the red yoke, and mingles with the sun!
So hath the traveller of earth unfurl'd
Her trembling wings, emerging from the world :
And o'er the path by mortal never trod,
Sprung to her source, the bosom of her God!

Cease every joy to glimmer on my mind,
But leave-oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
What though my winged hours of bliss have been,
Like angel-visits, few, and far between!

Her musing mood shall every pang appease,
And charm-when pleasures lose the power to please!
Eternal Hope! when yonder spheres sublime
Peal'd their first notes to sound the march of Time,
Thy joyous youth began-but not to fade.-
When all the sister planets have decay'd;
When rapt in fire the realms of ether glow,

And Heaven's last thunder shakes the world below:
Thou, undismay'd, shalt o'er the ruins smile,
And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile!

LESSON XLV.

The bounty of God in the vegetable kingdom.-BARROW'S VOYAGES.

It was curious to observe that the greatest part of the plants, found on these islands [St. Paul and Amsterdam in the Indian ocean] were products of Europe. The question very naturally occurred, how any plant European or Indian, should first have been brought upon two little specks of land in the middle of the ocean, at the distance of two thousand miles from the nearest shore.

Exploding, bursting or driving out with noise.
.Firmament, sky, natural heavens.

Careers, moves with a swift motion. Fiery giant,

comet.

Bickering, quivering, playing backward and forward. .Adamantine, åd-à-mân'tin, hard, impenetrable. Car, chariot.

Curbs, guides, restrains, checks. Mingles with, is lost in, vanishes, is absorbed by. Traveller of earth, the soul of man.

ed, spread, unfolded.

Unfurled, open

Emerging, rising out of that by which it was covered, mounting.

Path by mortal never trod. "No man hath seen God at any time." John i. 18.- -"There shall no man see me and live." Exod. xxxiii. 20.

Glimmer, shine faintly, imperfect light.

-Light, comfort, sustaining power, cheering influence. Winged, swiftly fleeting, having wings.

Musing mood, a state in which one ponders in silence. Appease, soothe, pacify, quiet.

Pealed their first notes. See Job xxxviii. 7.

But not to fade. How is this reconciled with 1 Cor. xiii. 13; and Rom. viii. 24 ?

Sister planets. What is meant by them?
Rapt in fire. See 2 Pet. iii. 10.

Heaven's last thunder. See 1 Thess. iv. 16; John v. 28.

Undismayed, not depressed with fear.

Light thy torch, become brighter and stronger. Though the hope of a soul received to heaven is "changed to vision," it will not follow that there is not a "far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" still in prospect.

Vegetable, relating to plants.

Kingdom, one of the divisions of the material world. -Curious, matter of curiosity, nice, elegant, inquisitive.

Indian Ocean. Where is it?

-Products, avails, fruits, effects.

Europe. On what continent, and what part of the continent?