Till pearly shapes, like molten billows, lie Next breezes swell forth with harmonious charm, High as the lightning's rage, or thunder's roar ; All living, breathing,--full of Deity ! In every wave, and wind, and fruit, and flower, power. 9. Who hung yon planet in its airy shrine, And dashed the sunbeam from its burning mine? And thunder rattle from the skyey deep? Through hill and vale, who twined the healthful stream? Made rain to nurture, and the fruit to teem? And filled it with a living flame divine? One Great Enchanter helmed the harmonious whole, LESSON CLXXVII. EXPLANATORY NOTES.-1. BRIAREUS, among the ancients, was a fabled giant, with a hundred hands and fifty heads. 2. GALILEO, an illustrious astronomer, was born at Florence, in 1564. At the age of twenty-four, he was appointed mathematical professor at Pisa. But his opposition to old theories of philosophy, created him enemies, which led him to resign the chair. He become a strenuous advocate of the Copernican system of Astronomy, which taught that the sun was the center, and that the planets, among which was the earth, revolved round it. He was twice compelled by a tribunal, before which he was arraigned, to abjure the system; in the last instance, after repeating the abjuration, he is said to have stamped on the earth, and said, in a low voice, "It does move, nevertheless." 3. FIRE-CROSS is something used in Scotland as a signal to take arms. INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL POWER. E. L. MAGOON. 1. TRUE power is intellectual. Its honor and reward lie in the capacity of uttering the bright coinage of immortal thought. Providence has appointed our existence in an age and country, most favorable for the illustration of this point. In ruder ages, physical strength obtained mastership in life. In the subsequent era of chivalry, the prowess of military chieftains monopolized the brightest smiles and the richest honors. But under the higher civilization of modern times, beautiful THOUGHT is the favorite sovereign, who from the printed page or speaking lip, sways with omnipotent energy a scepter that is omnipresent. 2. Look at the regal power of mind. If it can not "create a soul under the ribs of death," it will chisel frosty marble into the lincaments and gracefulness of more than kingly majesty. Disdaining to employ agents weak and fragile to execute its purpose, creative mind has produced a Titan progeny, whose strength is greater than BRIAREUS' with his hundred hands. Vivified with a soul ethereal and lightning-winged, these servants, whose toil is neither uncompensated nor unjust, open the quarry and drive the loom; or when linked to the car and ship, they unexhausted go, 3. There are intellects at this moment extant and luxuriating in the solitudes of profound meditation, or active in public toil, whose conceptions, long since dispatched on their mission of conquest, are rushing in a thousand directions with infinitely more speed and energy than the eagles of imperial Rome. As the lightning shineth from the east unto the west, so the clear, broad light of sterling thought, glittering through "the spacious circuits of her musing," is pouring an effulgence round the globe. Not the fitful coruscations of vapid mediocrity, but profound and glowing mind is the universal queen whom all must adore or serve. Republicans though we are, we must acknowledge here is a sovereign, victorious beyond our envy or our hate. 4. Even here in this doomed earth, where storms howl and disease destroys, the Empires that rise, and the institutions that rule, are only lengthened shadows of individual minds, walking before the sun of immortal glory. It is the same now as it ever has been; the thick ranks of the great army of mankind, are marching, with lock-step, over the field of time to great conflicts and eternal rewards. 5. They march to the music of thought, regular or distracting, and he who plays loudest and best, will be followed by the strongest host. A thought put into action, is infinitely more effective than exploding cannon. The tones of true eloquence will drown all their uproar, counteract the force of their destruction, and render the mightiest despots utterly impotent before the splendors of inspiring TRUTH. * * * 6. The will of God requires us not to elevate a few by depressing the many; but on the contrary to seek the greatest good of the greatest number. What means are to be used? We must EDUCATE. Let us not leave the mass of mind to grow ignorant and corrupt, and afterward attempt coërcively to bind it. Xerxes may as well expect to chain the vexed Hellespont in peace. Legislation is impotent any longer to resist the beamings of a brighter day. 7. Knowledge is generous and communicative, and jealousy at its progress is a sure symptom of its want. But the day has come when it can not be successfully resisted. Superstition may condemn GALILEO' for his improved astronomy, but the earth continues to turn round with all its stupid inhabitants, revolving into light. Some are born in darkness, and have always dwelt there from choice; it is their native land; for it they fight; and it is the only sense, in which they are patriotic. This is natural; but they and all like them, who fear the effulgence bursting up the horizon, should quickly kindle counter fires, and educate, EDUCATE ! 8. The more obstructions are thrown before the flooding tide of knowledge, the more destructive energies will be developed. The force of cannon may quell mobs, but education will prevent them. Moral power creates the strongest munitions of safety, while arbitrary compulsion degrades both the tyrant and his victim. We may expect a few will cry out against increased illumination, as that which they deprecate, shames bigotry, cures superstition, and destroys all tyranny over body and soul. But the fire-cross of wisdom is shining from hill-top to hill-top, and is rapidly bounding from land to land. Aggressions into the kingdom of darkness, have commenced. We do not cry, "havoc and bloodshed," but we do say," LET THERE BE LIGHT!" 1. " 'LET THERE BE LIGHT!" the Eternal spoke, And light around creation flowed. 2. "LET THERE BE LIGHT!" O'er heaven and earth, Uttered again His fiat forth, And shed the Gospel's light abroad; In lowly cot and lordly hall. HOFFMAN. LESSON CLXXVIII. SCOTLAND AND NEW ENGLAND. "Land of the forest and the rock, ROBERT TURNBULL. Of dark blue lake and mighty river, Of mountains reared aloft to mock Land of the beautiful and brave! The freeman's home, the martyr's grave! The nursery of giant men, Whose deeds have linked with every glen, The magic of a warrior's name!" 1. Ir is the mind which transfers its own ethereal colors to the forms of matter, and invests scenes and places with new and peculiar attractions. Like the light of the moon streaming through a leafy grove, and transforming its darkness into its own radiant beauty, the spirit of man diffuses its own inspiration through the universe, "Making all nature Beauty to the eye and music to the ear." 2. No country will appear to us so beautiful, as the one which happens to be endeared to our hearts by early recollections and pleasant associations. No matter how rude and wild, —that spot of all others on earth, will appear to us the sweetest and most attractive. "New England," says a native of Massachusetts, "is the glory of all lands. No hills and vales are more picturesque than hers, no rivers more clear and beautiful." 3. Others may speak disparagingly of the sour climate and barren soil of Scotland; but to a native of that country, the land of his fathers is invested with all the charms of poetry and romance. Every spot of its varied surface, is hallowed ground. He sees its rugged rocks and desolate moors mantled with the hoary memories of by-gone days, the thrilling associations of childhood and youth. 4. What visions of ancient glory cluster around the timehonored name! What associations of wild native grandeur,― of wizard beauty and rough magnificence! What gleams of |