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fair, and so full of the Divine glory, what must 

 be that coining world, which no curse of God 

 has blighted which no sin of man has ever 

 sallied ; and which the Redeemer is now pre- 

 paring to be the home and the heritage of his 

 people ! For if we should ever remember that 

 knowledge, and holiness, and love things spi- 

 ritual and not material are to be the excelling 

 glory of that other world, yet who can tell what 

 may be the glory, even in things material, of 

 that New Jerusalem, which the eye of the Seer 

 saw shining with its streets of gold, and its gates 

 of pearl, and its foundations of all manner of 

 precious stones ? And this Instrument may at 

 least aid us in attempting to form some faint 

 conception of that material glory ; for in taking 

 one glance with it at even a small fragment of 

 (copper) pyrites, we have felt as if that one 

 glance gave us a more exalted view of the new 

 heavens and the new earth, than we had ever 

 before received from the richest hue of the 

 flower, or the most dazzling lustre of the dia- 

 mond, or the varied colours of the rainbow, or 

 the very light of the sun itself ! And surely the 

 highest of all lessons should follow. If God's 



