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will help us to form some conception of the mighty change which 

 the doctrines of the gospel must effect in the character and disposi- 

 tions of men, to justify the figurative and heautiftd language of the 

 evangelical prophet: 'The wolf also shall dwell with the larnb,' 

 (Isa. xi. G) ; and an attachment will be formed betwoen them, for 

 'they shall eat together,' ch. Ixv. 25. See also Mait. x. 10 ; Luke 

 x. 3; John x. 12. 



From what has been said, the reader may form an opinion of the 

 character of those false teachers, whose object was to 'make a gain 

 of godliness,' in the primitive church, and whom the blessed Re- 

 deemer, as well as his inspired apostles, designates wolves. 'Be- 

 ware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but 

 inwardly are ravening wolves,' Matt. vii. 15. 'I know,' says Paul 

 to the elders of the Ephesian church, 'I know that after my de- 

 parture shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the 

 flock,' Acts xx. 29. 



THE HY^NA 





IN the English Bible, we rrad in 1 Sam. xiii. 13, of the valley of 

 Zeboim and in Jer. xii. 9, of 'a speckled bird.' In both these pla- 

 ces the same word is used, and that word, there is little doubt, refers 

 to the hyiena. 



The size of the hyrena is that of a very large dog, weighing about 

 a hundred weight, Imving a strong bristly mane, with hairs seven 

 inches long. The fore legs are two feet in length, the foot flat, 



