HAPPY CONTRAST. 
417 
Sabbath-schools, no inspired page or Christian 
preacher directed their attention to the Lord 
of the Sabbath; but when the devotees met 
for public worship, it was under the gloom of 
overshadowing trees, amid the recesses of some 
rude temple, before some rustic altar, or in the 
presence of some deity of frightful form and 
fearful attributes, the offspring of their own ima¬ 
gination. 
