148 THE LAURISTINU8. 



Others smile upon llie scene, when deserted even 

 by the last lingering relics of sober Autumn. The 

 Lauristinus loves to overtop a lofty wall, and to 

 look out beyond its native garden, upon scenes un- 

 adorned by such embellishments. It will cast its 

 spreading branches over the fence, as if eager to 

 beautify an uncultivated region, and to smile where 

 all was dull, and barren, and uninviting. High and 

 stubborn indeed is the barrier which separates the 

 watered garden of the Lord's church from those 

 who are not only alienated by a false and idola- 

 trous religion, but rendered more inaccessible by 

 dissimilarity of language, ^vhich few, very few, 

 will trouble themselves to overleap. Herein the 



Lauristinus beautifully typifies the venerable S , 



who surmounted the barrier, and spread abroad the 

 gospel invitation, where, otherwise, it could not 

 have come. His vigorous growth shewed how 

 rich was the soil that bore him ; his healthful 

 abundance proved how careful the hand that train- 

 ed him : and while his aspect invited a farther ac- 

 quaintance with both, his example proved that no 

 obstacle, really insurmountable, existed to prevent 

 the external desert from becoming a garden — the 

 waste wilderness from blossoming as the rose. 



In his own beloved, poor country, ho was indeed 

 a prophet : I knov/ not where his mantle has fallen 

 — what favoured lips shall exercise the precious 

 gift, so available to the souls of his Irish-speaking 



