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foot of that wood- walk, and wooingly, with sweet breath- 
ings, win 5'ou to learn of them lessons of faith and trust, 
of hope and cheering, kindliness and forbearance 1 for al! 
these ethics and Christian graces are folded vsMthin their 
many-colored petals, shower forth from their flagrant 
farina, or evolve from their sparkling leaves. Know you 
them 1 Not botanically, not scientifically, (though there 
are right good lessons to be gained from them thus also) 
but know you. these nurslings of God’s hand as they 
come foith, by Him adorned in morning costume of 
sweet-scented drapery and vasious hued covering, as 
friends and darlings'? Know you them thusl Go learn 
these lessons ! Begin with the humblest, the lowly ones 
of earth ; learn from them content, humility, gratitude and 
benificenee ; shower, as they do, fragrance and blessing 
on all around ; then raise up your eyes, now enlightened, 
and take another lesson m heaven’s tutoring; ascend the 
ladder of learning with the rising wood; learn to know, 
admire and lore the beaudful grandeur, excellence, and 
adaptation of die myriads of wood inmates, that each its 
own place fills in orderly progression, and yet, in peacer 
ful emulation, striving for space and light, for life sus- 
tenance, and thus fill up the area between earth’s carpet- 
ing and her tree embowered canopy. 
Ah ! these studies wiil fill up thy time with buoyant 
lightness and plcasura’ole excitement — such as town’s les- 
sons cannot give — will refresh thy weary heart, ease thy 
care-worn spirit, lighten thy troubled brow, plant smiles 
even on furrowed cheeks, and send back to thy pillow (if 
she has fied it) “Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep.” 
Oh I enter these woods and learn of G:)d in life and na- 
ture. from insect, bird and flower, the high and holy les- 
sons they unfold that will prepare thee for a place in the 
Paradise of God ; ail untutored wilt enter heaven, and 
there be set to con the elementary principles of grace, 
benignity and grandeur, that God scattered profusely 
around tky pathway from the cradle to the grave — as 
teachings for thy spirit. Defer not to learn on earth the 
preparatory lessons needed for the enjoyment of heaven ; 
for it is only by intense activity that the endowments of 
our nature become developed ; the arm gains vigor by 
daily toil, aitd the mind increases its power by exercise pf 
thought, and the affections are refreshed and invigorated 
by habitual use. Without knowledge or a cultivated 
understanding, we can neither appreciate nor enjoy the 
stores of Litesature, the discoveries of S-cience, nor the 
glowing beauties of Art — lost, on the dull untutored ear, 
are all but the simplest notes of music ; blank to the un- 
practiced eye, are all the wondrous asagic iouche§ of 
Haphsal’s or Titian’s pencil. Vaguely fall on the untutor- 
ed mind the ie.3SOns of earthly wisdom, or science ; and 
the teachings of the winds, the waves, the woods, the 
earth and sky are lost, lost, lost to those who do not open 
£he book and carefully scan, and reverently read the lines 
eo clearly traced by a Divine hand. “The Great Teacher,” 
our blessed Redeemer and Exemplar, illustrated and elu- 
cidated the mysteries of life and his religion, by reference 
to Nature and her works; when his disciples were tried, 
liararsed and perplexed, dismayed in ignorajit fear or 
blind iticreduhty, he led them to faith and hope, by no 
high-sounding moral thesis, no learned disquisition, no 
argumentative demonstratiofj of right and wrong; he 
simply guides their thoughts to God’s nianifestaud bound- 
less love ; he reminds them of the omnipresent care that 
guides the stars, that holds the winds in the hollow oi his 
hand, and upholds the minutest things; he bids them 
‘•consider the lillies of the field, how they grow; they toil 
not, neither do they spin, and yet, I say unto you, that 
Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these ; 
if God so clothes the grass, wdiich is to-day in the field 
and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much 
more clothe you'? Consider the ravens, for they neither 
sow nor reap; which neither have store house nor barn, 
and God feedeth them. And one sparrow, he assures 
them, cannot fall without his notice.” Oh ! let us obey 
these divine behests and go forth into the fresh air, and 
iearn the lessons our Great Teacher has set for our in- 
struction. Let us bathe our whole soul in the revelations 
of pure light that the ministry of Nature pours out around 
us. Let us hear the sounds of glad ness that issue from 
swinging nest and hanging chrysalis, and rocking tree- 
top, and trickle and sparkle from every water -fall. Let 
us listen to the thousand voices in wood, and brake, 
and sea and marsh, from sea-shore, and mountain height, 
that whisper and carol, and loud roaring, proclaim the 
sweet, comforting Gospel— God is love. Let us study and 
learn to love and practice the example our Heavenly 
Father has spread over the whole universe, in the beauty, 
order and adaptation of the wondrous works of his hand ; 
to the love and benediction of the sentient beings he has 
created. 
Broadcast over the land, are scattered seats of learning, 
College Halls, with nobly endowed Professorships, whose 
chairsare ably filled by learned men, through which pass 
many students, attaining, according to their babits or 
course of study, varying degrees of honor. Salaried Pro- 
fessors of all the ’ologies are there— Physiology, Philology. 
Psychology, Ornithology, Conchology, Meteorology, 
Astrology. Entomology, and, perhaps in many of these 
halls of learning one unsalaried Professor takes his chair 
and keeps it, receiving greater assiduity of attention from 
his students than some of the other ological tutors can 
boast — Demonology. In towns, too, are all manner of 
schools of learning, and teachers of craft and cunning, 
lore, and creed, with scholars of creditable attainments, 
in the various departments of study. Male and female 
schools, from which yearly are turned out students of such 
self evident proficiency in many of the ologies therein 
taught, that it boots not to ask for diploma, as evidence of 
their having been matriculated in these hails; for there are 
young ladies, aufoAi\most admirably to dress ology, flirt- 
ology, romantic-ology, scandal-ology, waste-tirae-ology, 
street-strut-ology, love-of admiration- ology, &c., &c., and 
young gentlemen of rare attainments, and unquestioned 
ability in smoke ology, drink ology, vapid-ology, very- 
sopht olQgy,.and many others, too numerous to be men- 
tioned. But amidali these, who knows or hears of Pro- 
fessors or students of the noblest ’ology of them ail, the 
study best suited to our wants, capacity and destiny 
— Nature-ology — containing within itself a score of ele- 
vating, enliyenif'g; soul-stirring, mind-exalting heart-ben?- 
fittiiig ’ologies, from those -that are adapted tO the coiii- 
prehension of the wee-ones of the household, nest-ology, 
egg-ology, bu'd-ology, to those that might enrapture and 
enlighten the possessors of the highest gifts of intellect — 
flower- ology, leaf-ology, tree-ology, dew-ology, clo«d- 
ology. Oh! ho many renovating, redeeming studies, 
emanate from wood-craft properly taught. 
But the Prof-ssorships of these higher branches of study 
need no endowed halls, no classic precincts, for their 
able occupancy — in every home, beneath every roof-tree 
of our country fire-sides, ought to go forth, with loving 
hearts and ripened intellects, the professors of Nature-olo- 
gy, in the fathers and mothers of our land, leading their 
children daily, by loving culture and tender training, from 
Nature up to Nature’s God. 
The Harveds of the World.— W q now enjoy a goodly 
prospect of abundant harvests, and consequently cheap 
food. Not only '.n the Unit'll! States will the yield of 
cereal products be afiiaent, but also in England, Ireland 
and France. Indeed, all over the European continent, 
the gather in is likely to exceed, in abundance, that ©f 
many former years. 
