TO NATURAL HISTORY 



Natural History are prominent as illustrations of 

 the beauties of religion, and the glories of the 

 Church. 



How could the most refined taste be more highly 

 gratified, than by some of these beautiful illustra- 

 tions of prophecy ? 



"The wilderness and the solitary place shall be 

 glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blos- 

 som as the rose." 



"The mountains and the hills shall break forth 

 before you into singing, and all the trees of the 

 field shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn 

 shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier 

 shall come up the myrtle-tree." 



"We know that it was no mere lover of Nature in 

 the general, but the royal student of Natural His- 

 tory, who knew plants, from the cedar of Lebanon 

 to the Hyssop in the wall, who penned that picture 

 of nature which never can be surpassed for its 

 beauty. 



" For lo, the winter is passed, the rain is over and 

 gone, the flowers appear on the earth, the time of 

 the singing of birds has come, and the voice of the 



