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THE CHRISTIAN NATURALIST. 



some will only awake to shame and everlasting con- 

 tempt. And the reason of this is plain, ** God is not 

 mocked : for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he 

 also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the 

 flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the spirit, 

 shall of the spirit reap life everlasting." (Gal. vi. 7.) 



APRIL. 



THE RAINBOW, CLOUDS, &c. 



* Say, what mean those coloured streaks in heaven. 



Distended, as the brow of God appeased ? 

 Or serve they, as a flowery verge, to bind 

 The fluid skirts of that same watery cloud. 

 Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth ?' 



The Rainbow is peculiarly the ornament of a 

 showery April sky. This grand and impressive object 

 seldom fails to attract the eye by the beauty of its co- 

 lours, or to awaken the mind to some of those Scriptural 

 recollections which are associated with it. The Son 



