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other mysteries attending the Divine ordinances, 

 we vainly endeavour to penetrate their meaning : 

 we may, however, feel assured. Bertha, that if 

 these things were necessary to be understood by 

 us, they would have been fully explained. Many 

 ceremonies in the ritual given to the Israelites, 

 were adapted to them as a people who had lived 

 amongst the heathens, and who had imbibed 

 those prejudices and depravities of heathen 

 worship, which were so totally removed from 

 every thing spiritual. To us they may be objects 

 of rational curiosity ; but a knowledge of their 

 use or precise fabric could add no essential 

 testimony to the well-established truths of 

 Scripture History. 



" There is, however, one mode of viewing the 

 subject, from which we may derive a useful hint : 

 the high priest could not address the Almighty 

 when divested of this emblem of light and per- 

 fection ; in like manner our addresses to God 

 will be of no use, unless we also are adorned, not 

 indeed with the emblem of light, but with the 

 true light of the Gospel ; with that clear and 

 bright faith which makes us feel the power and 

 goodness of Him to whom we pray." 



$th. The beautiful hoar-frost at first gave 

 to every twig and blade of grass the modest, 

 quiet appearance of a wreath of pearls ; but last 

 night there was a slight shower of rain, and now 



