lent mind! What a spring does it give to all the better energies of the heart! Your labors of love, your plans of beneficence, your swellings of satisfaction in the rising. reputation of those whose virtues you have cherished, will not, we have reason to hope, be terminated by the stroke of death. No! your spirits will still linger around the objects of their former attachment.. They will behold with rapture even the distant effects of those beneficent institutions which they once delighted to rear; they will watch, with a pious satisfaction, over the growing prosperity of the country which they loved; with a parent's fondness, and a parent's exultation, they will share in the fame of their virtuous posterity; and, by the permission of God, they may descend, at times, as guardian angels, to shield them from danger, and to conduct them to glory. Of all the thoughts that can enter the human mind, this is one of the most animating and consolatory. It scatters flowers around the bed of death. It enables us who are left behind, to support with firmness the departure of our best beloved friends; because it teaches us that they are not lost to us forever. They are still our friends. Though they be now gone to another apartment in our Father's house, they have carried with them the remembrance and the feeling of their former attachments. Though invisible to us, they bend from their dwelling on high to cheer us in our pilgrimage of duty, to rejoice with us in our prosperity, and, in the hour of virtuous exertion, to shed through our souls the blessedness of heaven."

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Joy.

Extracts from Isaiah LX.

V. 1. "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. 2. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. 3. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. 4.

Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side."

13. "The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious. 14. The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee the city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 15. Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations."

Consolation.

Extracts from Isaiah LXI.

V. 1. "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; 2. To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; 3. To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called Trees of righteousness, The planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified."

Triumph.

Stanzas from a Hymn on the Advent.
"Hark! - the herald angels sing,
Glory to the new-born king!
Peace on earth and mercy mild,

God and sinners reconciled!'

"Joyful all ye nations, rise,

Join the triumph of the skies;
With the angelic host proclaim,
'Christ is born in Bethlehem!'

"Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Son of Righteousness!

Light and life to all he brings,

Risen with healing in his wings!"

And seek thy Father's face!

Those new desires which in thee burn,
Were kindled by his grace.

*Pathos and Tenderness are expressed by a high though softened

tone.

EXERCISES IN "INFLECTION."*

Empassioned Inflection.

Interrogation. (Admitting of a positive or a negative Answer.) Indignation and Astonishment.

[Highest accent of Rising Inflection, or Upward Slide.]†

"Shall the work say of him that made it, He made me nót? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?"

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Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable to himself? Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy way pérfect? Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment?" Jesus! and shall it ever be

A mortal man ashamed of thée ?

Ashamed of thée, - whom ángels praise?
Whose glories shine through endless days?"

Apostrophe.

Indignant Appeal.

[Lowest descent of Falling Inflection, or Downward Slide.]+

Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lòrd hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.-`Ah! sìnful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil dòers, children that are corrupters!"

Vehement Denunciation.

"Wò unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put

*The analysis of inflection may, at the option of individuals, be studied in practical forms, as laid down in the Elocutionist, or scientifically, as in the Orthophony. The exercises in the present volume, are restricted to the application of prominent principles.

"Upward Concrete" of an Octave, on the system of Dr. Rush. "Downward Concrete" of an Octave, -on the system of Dr. Rush.

bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Wò unto them

that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! Wò unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink!”

Remonstrance and Expostulation.
Indignant Address.

[Example of boldest Upward and Downward Slides.]

“Is it súch a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a búlrush, and to spread sackcloth and áshes under him? wilt thou call this a fast and an acceptable day unto the Lord? Is not this* the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickednes, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go frèe, and that ye break every yòke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hùngry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy hòuse? when thou seest the naked, that thou còver him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flèsh?”

Vivid or Earnest Inflection.

Argumentation.
Discussion.

High ascent of Rising Inflection, or Upward Slide.f "Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

"What then? shall we sín, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whóm ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?"

* Interrogation, in the form of remonstrance or expostulation, adopts the downward slide, as do all other emphatic forms of language. "Upward Concrete" of a "Fifth," in the nomenclature of Dr.

Rush.