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ridian than the halos, and have therefore gratified 
and delighted more observers than the former. 
“These glories of the atmosphere, however, 
are only occasional, and the last two mentioned 
so rare and local that few have ever enjoyed 
the opportunity of observing them; but there 
are aerial splendors which enrapture all eyes 
and give daily evidence of the divine goodness. 
The glories of morning and evening are God’s 
benedictions to man, teaching him, as he looks 
upward to the radiant clouds, that the glory on 
the face of the heavens is but a feeble reflec¬ 
tion of him who reigns above them. Having 
received the ascending Lord and wrapped him 
from human sight, and destined to restore him 
again to the expecting saints clothed with greater 
power and glory, the clouds seem to glow with 
unceasing emulation to reflect as much as pos¬ 
sible of the glory of him who will make them 
his throne. Thus do they often quicken the 
hearts of those who are to be the recipients 
and sharers of the transcendent blessedness of 
his presence, where there is ‘ no need of the 
sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it, for the 
glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is 
the light thereof.* 
