LESSON LXXXIII. SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Moors, tracts of wet, low ground. 2. Wayaring, traveling. 3. Heather, a kind of low shrubbery. 3. Furz, a thorny plant. 4. Pastoral, pertaining to shepherds. 5. Benign, kind. 6. Thrall, slavery. 7. Peasantry, the common people, as distinguished from the nobility in European countries. 8. Incidents, circumstances; events. For what is emphasis generally employed? (Les. VIII. Note V.) Scotland in Summer and Winter.-WILSON. 1. In summer there is beauty in the wildest moors of Scotland. The wayfaring man, who sits down for an hour's rest beside some little spring, that flows unheard through the brightened moss and water-cresses, feels his weary heart revived by the silent, serene, and solitary prospect. 2. On every side, sweet sunny spots of verdure smile towards him from among the melancholy heather-unexpec tedly in the solitude a stray sheep, it may be, with its lamb, starts half alarmed at his motionless figure-insects large, bright, and beautiful, come careering by him through the desert air. Nor does the wild want its own songsters; the gray linnet, fond of the blooming furz, and now and then the lark, mounting up to heaven, above the summits of the green pastoral hills, pour forth their cheerful notes of joy and gladness. 3. During such an hour of sunshine, the lonely cottage on the waste seems to stand in a paradise; and as he rises to pursue his journey, the lonely traveler looks back, and blesses it with a mingled emotion of delight and envy. There, thinks he, abide the children of Innocence and Con tentment-the two most benign spirits that watch over human life. 4. Other thoughts arise in the mind of him who may chance to journey through the same scene in the desolation of winter. The cold, bleak sky girdles the moor as with a belt of ice. Life is frozen in air and on earth. The silence is not of repose, but of extinction; and should a solitary human dwelling, half buried in the snow, catch his eye, he is sad for the sake of those whose destiny it is to abide far from the cheerful haunts of men, shrouded in melancholy, by poverty held in thrall, or pining away in unvisited, and untended disease. 5. But, in good truth, the heart of human life is but im perfectly discovered from its countenance. Before we can know what the summer, or what the winter yields for enjoyment or trial to the peasantry, we must have conversed with them in their fields, and by their firesides; and made our selves acquainted with the powerful ministry of the seasons not over those objects alone which feed the eye and the imagination, but over all the incidents, occupations, and events, which modify or constitute the existence of the poor QUESTIONS.-1. When does the wayfaring man find beauty in Scotland? 2. What animals will he see? 3. What music, hear? 4. How is it in winter? 5. From what alone may we know the real happiness of the people? Wherein consists the difficulty of giving a distinct articulation in reading the first line, second verse? LESSON LXXXIV. SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Fabric, a building. 2. Dedication, the act of setting apart for the service of the Divine Being. 3. Magnificence, grandeur of appearance. 4. Elevated, raised high. 5. Cherubim, (the plural of cherub,) angels of a superior order; here, wrought figures, having the form of cherubim. 6. Consecration, the act of making sacred. 7. Tutelar, protecting; guardian. 8. Illimitable, not to be bounded. 9. Recapitulated, repeated in order. 10. Theocracy, a government, the laws of which are immediately from the Deity. 11. Gorgeous, glittering with gay colors. 12. In sig' ni a, badges of office. 13. Incomprehensble, not to be understood. Dedication of the Temple.-MILMAN. 1. FOR seven years and half the fabric arose in silence. All the timbers, the stones, even of the most enormous size, were hewn and fitted, so as to be put together without the sound of any tool whatever; as it has been expressed, with great poetical beauty, "Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric grew." 2. At the end of this period, the temple and its courts being completed, the solemn dedication took place, with the greatest magnificence which the king and the nation could display. On this great occasion, all the tribe of Levi, without regard to their courses-the whole priestly order, attended. 3. Around the great brazen altar, which rose in the court of the priests, before the door of the temple, stood in front of the sacrifices, the whole choir arrayed in white linen One and twenty of these were trumpeters, the rest had cymbals, harps, and psalteries. Solomon himself took his place. on an elevated scaffold, or raised throne of brass. The whole assembled nation crowded the spacious courts beyond. At 4. The ceremony began by the preparation of burnt offerings, so numerous that they could not be counted. an appointed signal, commenced the more important part of the scene, the removal of the ark, the installation of the God of Israel in His new and appropriate dwelling, to the sound of all the voices and all the instruments, chanting some of those splendid odes contained in the psalms. The ark advanced, borne by the Levites, to the open portals of the temple. 5. It can scarcely be doubted that the twenty-fourth psalm, even if composed before, was adopted and used on this occa sion. The singers, as it drew near the gate, broke out in these words, "Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, that the King of Glory may come in." It was answered from the other part of the choir, "Who is the King of Glory?" The whole choir responded, "The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory." 6. When the procession arrived at the holy place, the gates flew òpen; when it reached the holy of holies, the vail was drawn back. The ark took its place under the extended wings of the cherubim, which might seem to fold over, and receive it under their protection. At that instant, all the trumpeters and singers were at once "to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice, with the trumpets, and cymbals, and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, for He is good, for his mercy endureth for ever, the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord, so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God." 7. Thus the Divinity took possession of his sacred edifice. The king then rose upon the brazen scaffold, knelt down, and spreading his hand towards heaven, uttered the prayer of consecration. The prayer was of unexampled sublimity: while it implored the perpetual presence of the Almighty, as the tutelar deity, and the sovereign of the Israelites it recognized his spiritual and illimitable nature. "But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven, and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee how much less this house which I have built!" It then re capitulated the principles of the Hebrew theocracy, the dependence of the national prosperity and happiness on the national faith. 8. As the king concluded in these emphatic terms,"Now, therefore, arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy strength; let thy priests, ŎLord God, be clothed with salvation, and thy saints rejoice in goodness: O Lord God, turn not away the face of thine annointed; remember the mercies of David thy servant," the cloud which had rested over the holy of holies, grew brighter and more dazzling; fire broke out and consumed all the sacrifices; the priests stood without, awestruck by the insupportable splèndor; the whole people fell on their faces, and worshiped, and praised the Lord, " for he is good, for his mèrcy endureth for ever." 9. Which was the greater, the external magníficence, oi the moral sublimity of this scene? Was it the témple, situ. ated on its commanding eminence, with all its courts, the dazzling spléndor of its materials, the innumerable múlti tudes, the priesthood in their gorgeous attire, the king, with all the insignia of royalty, on his throne of burnished bráss, the músic, the radiant cloud filling the temple, the sudden fire flashing upon the áltar, the whole nation upon their knées? Was it not, rather, the religious grandeur of the hymns and of the prayer; the exalted and rational views of the Divine Nature; the union of a whole people in the sde. ration of one Great, Incomprehensible, Almighty, Evarist ing Creator? 1. THE perfect world by Adam trod Was the first temple-built by God; 2. He hung its starry roof on high- He spread its pavement, green and bright, 3. The mountains in their places stood- 4. Lord, 'tis not ours to make the sea, QUESTIONS.-1. Were the materials for the temple prepared on the spot? 2. What were the preparations for its dedication? 3. What psalm was probably used on this occasion? 4. Who was the king mentioned in the seventh verse? 5. Where in the Bible is the prayer which he uttered on this occasion? Ans. Second book of Chronicles, 6th Chap. 6. What were most remarkable in these ceremonies ?-7. What was the first temple built by God? What inflection at heads, gates, up, doors, fifth verse? Why a falling inflection at open, sixth verse? How do you explain the inflections in the fore part of the ninth verse? Why has the direct question, close of the ninth verse, the falling inflection? (Rule I. Note I.) In what modulation of voice should the quotations in the fifth verse be read? (Les. III. 3.) LESSON LXXXV. SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Amity, friendship. 2. Enhancement, increase, or cause of increase. 3. Diminished, made less. 4. Sympathetic, pertaining to common feeling. 5. Participation, the act of taking part. 6. Similitude, likeness. 7. Forfeited, lost claim to; alienated by offense. 8. Affections, feelings of the mind. 9. Conciliate, to gain or engage the affections. 10. Tractable, easily led, or managed. Harmony among Brethren.--PERCIVAL. 1. Two brothers, named Timon and Demetrius, having quarreled with each other, Socrates, their common friend, was solicitous to restore amity between them. Meeting, therefore, with Demetrius, he thus accosted hìm: "Is not friendship the sweetest solace in adversity, and the greatest enhancement of the blessings of prosperity ?""Certainly it is," replied Demetrius; because our sorrows are diminished, and our joys increased by sympathetic participation." 2. Among whom, then, must we look for a friend ?" said Sòcrates. "Would you search among strangers? They can not be interested about you. Among your rivals? They have an interest in opposition to yours. Among those who are much older, or much younger, than yourself? Their feelings and pursuits will be widely different from yours. Are there not, then, some circumstances favorable, and others essential, to the formation of friendship?" "Undoubtedly there àre," answered Demetrius. |