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faith, will he be less ready to gather up those maxims 

 of caution and watchfulness, which the dangerous cha- 

 racter of these rugged thougli lofty eminencies may 

 well teach him. Hence he will learn not to be high- 

 minded but to fear; and while he glances around upon 

 these rocky wilds, and estimates the dangers of being 

 overtaken by the horrors of night in such a region, and 

 without a guide, he is enabled to see the evil of pro- 

 crastination in religion, and to feel the force of the 

 prophetic warning, (Jer. xiii. 16,) ** Give glory to the 

 Lord God, before he cause darkness, and before your 

 feet stumble upon the dark mountains ; and while ye 

 look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and 

 make it gross darkness." 



Further, whilst surveying the solid and immoveable 

 forms of the huge masses that crown the summits of 

 these Tors, the Christian will not fail to be reminded of 

 the majesty and unchangeableness of that Divine Wis- 

 dom, which was set up from everlasting, before the 

 mountains were settled. (Prov. viii. 25.) Nor less will 

 the sense of that Almighty power which is here so 

 apparent, serve to awe his spirit, and excite his reve- 

 rence, especially when he remembers that this power 

 as it manifested itself of old, " beheld, and drove asun- 



