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upon llic remaining darkness. The work goes on; 

 reflected brightness shines upon the rest ; and at 

 last the Lord puts on his glorious apparel, takes 

 unto himself his great power, breaks forth in the 

 dazzling brilliancy of acknowledged glory, and 

 reigns over a household of willing conquests. 



How lovely is the sympathy displayed by the 

 expanded world beneath, when this fair work is 

 accomplished in the brightening atmosphere above ! 

 Not a shrub, not a blossom, or a leaf, but seems 

 to rejoice, when the liberated day-beam shines 

 upon it; and gladness yet more intelligibly ex- 

 pressed, fdls the animal creation. It is not long 

 since, looking around for some particular flower, 

 whereon to mark the vivifying efi'ects of these 

 outbursting rays, I was struck to perceive on the 

 bank beside me, only one flower in bloom ; and 

 that was a single solitary child of my prolific 

 family the Heart's-Ease. * No,' thought T, as 1 

 turned reluctantly away, 'no, I must not bring you 

 a third time into my chapters.' But when I stole 

 another glance, and saw the little cheerful blossom 

 uplifting its modest face to rejoice in the sunshine, 

 I could not forego the almost inexhaustible source 

 of pure delight afl'orded me in the retrospection. 

 With such a train of thought awakened in my 

 mind, it seemed that none could so meetly claim 

 the notice I was prepared to bestow ; and that 

 peculiar characteristic of D., which shewed him 



