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be established. He had hkewise been always under the 

 impression that this face of the sun was in reality the 

 Gorgon's head ; that there was the principle of the aegis — 

 they had the goat's skin which formed the shield, and in the 

 centre was Medusa, or the Gorgon's head. He should like 

 to know when the head was thrown aside, and that face of the 

 sun introduced. The adornments of the face seemed more 

 like the snaky tresses of the former, than the direct linear 

 rays which surrounded the representation of the latter. Nor 

 did he remember what ground they had in mythology for 

 such a connection between the sun and Minerva to which 

 their attention had been called. He should like to ask one 

 question about the term Heliogabalus. Was not the name 

 of the Emperor so called a Greek composite ? Was it not 

 more like an adopted Greek word, instead of the Syriac or 

 Oriental name, and therefore that the " o " was introduced ? 

 It was singular that the Bible, which, above all things, taught 

 monotheism and discountenanced the worship of anything 

 representing the deity, should have the expression, " The sun 

 rising with healing in his wings." It was, he thought, one of 

 those instances in which the very superstitions of paganism 

 were employed in illustration of the most exalted truth. 



The Rev. J. Earle observed that it was an essential element 

 in all learning and knowledge that the highest wisdom and 

 the wildest error had had their points of conjunction, which 

 could not be better illustrated than in the case of St. Paul, 

 when he went to preach the Gospel at Athens. When the 

 Scripture spoke of " the sun rising with healing in his Avings," 

 it might be taken as representing a natural fact, that the 

 sun's heat was the most healing drug in existence ; or it might 

 be taken as embodying a far higher spiritual and supernal 

 truth, which they, as Christians, all possessed — a truth which 

 was but the expansion of the primary idea that the heat of 

 the sun was, of all things, the most restorative. With 



