84 " NOT THE LEAST OF NATURE'S MIRACLES ! " 



mind notched the twenty-four hours on its calen- 

 dar as before. Well might Linnaeus exclaim, with 

 pious rapture, as he gazed upon this " not the 

 least of Nature's miracles" " Lord, how won- 

 derful are Thy works!" Surely it is no wonder 

 that this " land of mysteries," with all its severity 

 and gloom, its pictures of darkness and death, 

 should exert, as we are told it does, a strange 

 secret power of attraction, evoked by " the very 

 mystic scene itself, which the midnight sun illu- 

 mines, and around which the mountain ridges keep 

 watch, while in winter the northern lights flame 

 over the snow-clad earth." It may well remind 

 the poor peasant that " God's Spirit rests upon the 

 northern land" no less than on the southern, and 

 symbolise to Christian faith and hope that blessed 

 " land of pure delight" where " the sun shall no 

 more go down," for the Lord shall be unto them 

 " an everlasting light." 



