THE BEAUTIFUL LA DDE E. 1 4/ 
that he vainly attempts to fix the aggregated 
life of the sea, that it furnishes a delightful 
study in the multitude of its orders, all rich in 
everything that can challenge inspection and 
excite enthusiasm and admiration. 
“ That mind must be peculiarly stolid which 
is not awed into reverence when the grand old 
ocean is first beheld; for certainly its vastness, 
its sublimity in calm or tempest, its curbless 
power, its profound depths, and its wondrous 
orders of life, all testify emphatically of the 
Infinite One. It might well be supposed that 
one would sooner be deaf to its mighty surf- 
beats than fail to behold him ‘ whose way is in 
the sea and his path in the great waters.’ ‘ The 
waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; 
they were afraid: the depths also were trou¬ 
bled.’ And can there be one so insensate as 
to stand upon the shore of the awe-struck, 
trembling ocean, unheeding of the Divine Pres¬ 
ence that ever broods on the face of the deep ? 
The heart of such a one must be as hollow and 
as lifeless as one of the tenantless shells that the 
feet of its owner will spurn as he idly and irrev¬ 
erently walks the ocean-shore. 
*‘To a devout mind the first strong impulse 
