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der the nations, and the everlasting mountains were 

 scattered, the perpetual hills did bow." (Habb. iii. 6.) 

 This terrible view of the majesty of God, as it manifested 

 itself in the giving of the law to Israel, will lead him to 

 the conclusion that nothing less than an act of the same 

 power must have attended the greatness of the dying 

 sufferer whose parting groan caused the solid founda- 

 tions of mount Moriah to quake, and the hard rocks to 

 be riven. Thus beholding the greatness of his Saviour, 

 inscribed as it were upon the most durable monuments 

 of the globe, the disciple of Christ may learn more 

 truly to trust his Lord, knowing his strength as a sin- 

 cere believer, and being assured that if a mountain of 

 difl&culties lay in his path, and he had " faith only as a 

 grain of mustard- seed, he might say to this mountain, 

 *' Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and 

 it should be done." (Matth. xxi. 21.) 



Such are some of the topics of Christian reflection, 

 which a visit to the Cornish Tors should suggest. In 

 the lowly retreats of the valley, as well, indeed, as 

 upon the mountain tops, suitable ideas of the God of 

 nature and of grace may be formed. But things which 

 are formed upon the largest scale of grandeur, as they 

 seem to bring us nearer to the Great Infinite, can never 



