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and fresh every evening. "Thou shewest forth 

 Thy loving kindness in the morning and Thy 

 faithfulness every evening." "Thy light shall 

 break forth as the morning." These are but 

 specimen passages; — the number is legion and 

 so many marked incidents are connected with 

 them, so much of history interwoven the divine 

 and the human blending in splendid experiences, 

 making the pages everywhere burn with living 

 thoughts and living personages. 



It is in the morning and evening hours that 

 Nature is at her best, and in these hours is our 

 highest enjoyment. The birds turn their faces 

 to the rising and setting sun as they pour forth 

 their songs and it is noticeable that both the 

 tone and quality of their matins and vespers 

 appreciably differ. With God's blessed sun- 

 shine about and above me, a white world of 

 clover abloom at my feet, fragrance so deli- 

 riously delicate, the great trees waving their 

 welcomes and the infinite worlds blazing in 

 beauty above me, why should not one be happy? 

 Why not interpret God by His works, and take 

 in of His beauty and show to the world the 

 solar face? 



George Meredith's "Hymn to Color" is full 

 of genial sympathy with the morning's dawn, 

 for this is really the subject of his marked 



