120 TROST. [Lesson XX. 



c * afford still more striking proofs of contrivance 

 <f and ought certainly to awaken in us the most 

 " lively sentiments of admiration, love, and gra- 

 tilude." 



Though we cannot speak with confidence and 

 certainty as to the secondary causes by which 

 many or' the wondrous effects of congelation are 

 brought about, we cannot surely be at a loss to 

 ascribe these and every other effect which takes 

 place in the different seasons, to the great FIRST 

 CAUSE. With regard to the attendants of winter, 

 they ought, though -cold and dreary, to warm our 

 hearts with the fire of Charity. Ye that sit easy 

 and joyous in your commodious apartments, solac- 

 ing yourselves in the diffusive warmth of your fire ; 

 O ! remember, that many of your fellow-creatures, 

 amidst all the rigour of the inclement skies, are 

 emaciated with sickness, benumbed with age, and 

 pining with hunger. Think ! for Heaven's sake, 

 think 



How many drink the cup 



Of baleful grief, or eat. the bitter bread 



Of misery! Sore pierced by wintry wind*, 



How many shrink into the sordid hut 



Of cheerless poverty! THOMSON. 



while a few faint and dying ambers on the squalid 

 hearth, rather mock their wishes than warm their 

 limbs. Methinks every piercing wind that blows, 

 and every addition Co the severity of the frost, 

 pleads for the poor indigents : may they breathy 

 pity into your breasts, and may you be thereby in- 

 duced 



