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sociated, too, with love and reverence for 

 Him who has created and upholds them, 

 that man may find pure symbols of His 

 beneficence ever present to the mind, in 

 unison with all that is most lovely in 

 the fair creation, with clear streams and 

 breezy uplands, with green hills smiling 

 in the distance, resounding woods, and 

 rustling trees, with the opening morn, 

 and the dews of evening, that the heart 

 may gladden in beholding them ! Works 

 of art, however rare and splendid, cannot 

 yield for any length of time the delight 

 which is continually excited by the emerg- 

 ing of flowers from out their winter dwell- 

 ings, as the year advances in its course. 

 Coming up, it may be, with the smiling 

 faces of returning friends, and seeming to 

 look cheerfully on all around. Pure as the 

 young child's spirit, they are the first ob- 

 jects of infantine delight. Children, too, 



