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changed; but Thou | art the same, and Thy years | shall have no end."*

Here then is a support, which will never fàil; here is a foundation | which can never be moved the ever5 lasting Creator of countless worlds, "the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity." What a SUBLÍME CONCEPTION! HE INHABITS ETERNITY, occupies this inconceivable duration, PERVADES | and FILLS | THROUGHOUT || THIS I BOUNDLESS DWELLING. Ages on ages before even 10 the dust of which we are formed was created, HE had existed in infinite majesty, and ages on ages will roll away after we have all returned to the dust whence

we were taken, and still | HE will exist | in infinite màjesty, living in the eternity of his ówn nàture, reigning 15 in the plenitude of his own omnipotence, for ever sending forth the word, which forms, suppórts, and governs all things, commanding new-created light || to shine on new-created worlds, and raising up new-created generations | to inhabit them.

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The contemplation of this glorious attribute of Gód, is fitted to excite in our minds the most ànimating | and consóling reflèctions. Standing, as we are, amid the ruins of time, and the wrecks of mortality, where every thing about us | is created and dependent, proceed25 ing from nothing, and hastening to destruction, we rejoice

that something is presented to our view | which has stood from everlasting, and will remain for èver. When we have looked on the pleasures of life, and they have vanished away; when we have looked on the works of 30 náture, and perceived that they were changing; on the monuments of árt, and seen that they would not stánd; on our friends, and they have fled while we were gázing; on ourselves, and felt that we were as fleeting as théy; when we have looked on every object to which 35 we could turn our anxious éyes, and they have all told us that they could give us no hope, nor support, because they were so feeble themselves; we can look to the THRONE of GOD: change and decay | have never reached THAT; the revolution of àges has never moved it; the waves of 40 an eternity | nave been rushing pást it, but it has re

*When the falling inflection recurs, in succession, as above, it falls lower at each repetition.

mained unshaken; the waves of another eternity are rushing toward it, but it is FìXED, and can NEVER be DISTURBED.

LESSON XXVIII.-TWO CENTURIES FROM THE LANDING OF

THE PILGRIMS.-CRAFTS.

[Marked for Rhetorical Pauses, Emphasis, and Inflections.] If, on this day, after the lapse of twó cènturies, one of the fathers of New England, released from the sleep of death, could reappear on earth, what would be his emotions of joy and wonder! In lieu of a wilderness, here 5 and there interspersed with solitary cabins, where life | was scarcely worth the danger of presérving it, he would behold joyful harvests, a population crowded even to satiety, villages, towns, cities, states, swarming with industrious inhabitants, hills | graced with temples of devó10 tion, and valleys | vocal with the early lessons of virtue. Casting his eye on the ocean, which he passed in fear and trémbling, he would see it covered with enterprising fleets || returning with the whale | as their captive, and the wealth of the Indies | for their cargo. He would behold 15 the little colony which he plánted, grown into gigantic státure, and forming an honorable párt of a glórious confederacy, the pride of the earth, and the fávorite' of heaven.

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He would witness, with exultation, the general preva20 lence of correct principles of government and virtuous habits of action. How gladly would he gaze upon the long stream of light and renown | from Harvard's classic fount, and the kindred springs of Yale, of Providence, of Dartmouth, and of Brunswick. Would you fill his 25 bosom with honest pride, tell him of FRANKLIN, who made thunder | sweet music, and the lightning | innocent fireworks, of ADAMS, the venerable sage | reserved by heaven, himself | a blessing, to witness its blessing on our nation, -of AMES, whose tongue became, and has become | an 30 angel's, of PERRY,

"Blest by his God with òne illustrious dáy,

A BLAZE OF GLORY, ere he passed away.'

And tell him, Pilgrim of Plymouth, THÈSE || are THY DESCENDANTS. Show him the stately structures, the splendid 35 benèvolence, the masculine intellect, and the sweet hospitality of the metròpolis of New England. Show him that

immórtal vèssel,* whose name | is synonymous with triumph, and each of her másts | a scèptre. Show him the glorious fruits of his humble enterprise, and ask him if this, ALL this, be not an atonement for his sùfferings, a 5 récompense for his tòils, a blèssing on his éfforts, and a heart-expanding TRIUMPH | for the pilgrim adventurer. And if he be proud of his óffspring, well may they | boast of their pàrentage.

LESSON XXIX. THE UPRIGHT LAWYER.-S. GREENLEAF.

[Marked for Rhetorical Pauses, Emphasis, and Inflections.]

In the walks of private life, the character of an upright lawyer | shines with mild | but génial lustre. He con1 cerns himself with the beginnings of controversies, not to infláme ' but to extinguish them. He is not content with 5 the doubtful morality of suffering clients, whose passions are roused, to rush blindly into legal cónflict. His conscience can find nó bàlm | in the reflection, that he has but obeyed the orders of an angry mán. He feels that his first duties are to the community in which he lives, and 10 whose peace | he is bound to presèrve.

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He is no stranger | to the mischiefs, which follow in the train of litigation; the deadly feuds and animósities | descending from the original combatants to successive generations; the pérjuries and frauds | so often com15 mitted to secure succèss; and the impoverishment | so commonly resulting | even to the winning party; and in view of these consequences, he advises to amicable negotiátion and adjustment. He is a pèacemaker,-a composer of dissensions, a blessing to his neighborhood;-his path 20 | is lúminous as the path of the JUST.

I look with pity | on the man, who regards himself a mere machine of the law;-whose conceptions of moral and social duty || are all absorbed in the sense of supposed obligation to his client, and this | of so low a nature || as 25 to render him a very TOOL and SLAVE, to serve the worst passions of men ;-who yields himself a passive instrument of legal inflictions, to be moved at the pleasure of every hirer;-and who I beholding the ruin and havoc ! made by a lawsuit, which | "two scruples of honesty" | in 30 his counsel might have prevénted, can calmly pocket his

*The Constitution.

fee with the reflection, that he has done his duty to his client, alike regardless of duty to his neighbor and his God.

That such men dó exist, to disgrace our profession, is 5 lamentably true; mén,

"that can speak

To every cause, and things mere contraries,

Till they are hoarse again, yet áll | be Law.”—

We would redeem its character by marking a higher 10 standard of mòrals. While our aid should never be withheld from the injured or the accused, let it be remém bered, that all our duties are not concentrated in con. ducting an appeal to the law;--that we are not only lawyers, but CITIZENS and MEN;-that our clients | are 15 not always the best judges of their own interests :—and that having confided these interests to our hands, it is for ns to advise to that course, which will best conduce to heir permanent bènefit, not merely as solitary indivíduals, but as men || connected with society | by enduring tìes.

LESSON XXX.-CHARACTER OF THE PRESENT AGE.-
E. EVERETT.

[To be marked by the reader, for Rhetorical Pauses, Emphasis, and 'nflections.]

The present age may be justly described as the Age of Revolutions. The whole civilized world is agitated with political convulsions, and seems to be panting and struggling in agony after some unattained, perhaps unattainable good. From the commencement of our revolution up to the present day, we have witnessed in Europe and America, an uninterrupted series of important changes. The thrones of the old world have been shaken to their foundations. On our own continent, empires that bore 10 the name of colonies, have shaken or are shaking off the shackles of dependence. And so far is this, the age of revolutions, which has already lasted more than half a century, from having reached its termination, that the very last year has been more fruitful in the most treinen15 dous convulsions, than any preceding one; and the present will probably be still more agitated than the last. Every arrival from abroad brings us intelligence of some new event of the highest moment: some people rising in revolt against their sovereign: some new constitution pro

claimed in one country: some reform, equivalent to a new constitution, projected in another: France, in the midst of a dangerous revolutionary crisis: Belgium, Poland, and Italy, the scenes of actual hostilities: England, on the eve 5 of commotion: the whole European commonwealth apparently plunging again into the gulf of general war.

What is the object of all these desperate struggles?— The object of them is to obtain an extension of individual liberty. Established institutions have lost their influence 10 and authority. Men have become weary of submitting to names and forms which they once reverenced. It has been ascertained,-to use the language of Napoleon, that a throne is only four boards covered with velvet,—that a written constitution is but a sheet of parchment. There 15 is, in short, an effort making throughout the world to reduce the action of Government within the narrowest possible limits, and to give the widest possible extent to individual liberty.

Our own country, though happily exempt, and God 20 grant that it may long continue so,-from the troubles of Europe, is not exempt from the influence of the causes that produce them. We too are inspired, and agitated, and governed by the all-pervading, all-inspiring, all-agitating, all-governing spirit of the age. What do I say? 25 We were the first to feel and act upon its influence. Our revolution was the first of the long series that has since shaken every corner of Europe and America. Our fathers led the van in the long array of heroes, martyrs, and confessors, who had fought and fallen under the banner of 30 liberty. The institutions they bequeathed to us, and under which we are living in peace and happiness, were founded on the principles which lie at the bottom of the present agitation in Europe. We have realized what our contemporaries are laboring to attain. Our tranquillity is 35 the fruit of an entire acquiescence in the spirit of the age. We have reduced the action of Government within narrower limits, and given a wider scope to individual liberty, than any community that ever flourished before.

We live, therefore, in an age, and in a country, where 40 positive laws and institutions have comparatively but little direct force. But human nature remains the same. The passions are as wild, as ardent, as ungovernable, in a republic, as in a despotism. What then is to arrest their violence? What principle is to take the place of the

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