110 THE CHRISTIAN NATURALIST. 



of the Son of God up to the sommit of that very mount 

 Tabor, from whence with hiaa we might cast an eye of 

 delighted rapture around the glorious panorama of scenes 

 hallowed by every heavenly association, and by every 

 earthly charm ? We need not complain ; — ^while the 

 Cornish Tors, and the many other hills of our own 

 land remain to us, we may mount their summits, and 

 feel a gratification much more intense than theirs who 

 look down from higher and more sacred eminences, but 

 upon lands far less favored than our own with the 

 blessings of liberty and true religion. Here, indeed, 

 also may the Christian learn as well as if he stood 

 upon a much higher pinnacle of rocks, that **as the 

 mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is 

 round about his people from henceforth even for ever.** 

 Here, too, may he profitably remember the might of 

 that Being, " who setteth fast the mountains, being 

 girded with power." And from hence he may gather 

 that lesson of confidence in God, so beautifully enforced 

 by the mouth of Isaiah, (liv. 10,) " The mountains 

 shall depart and the hills be removed, but my kindness 

 shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of 

 my peace be removed, saith the Lord.** 



Nor while the pious observer here gains a lesson of 



