Be it like summer-may they find Peace, comfort, happiness, at home:- Heaven all above it and around! THE LIGHT-HOUSE. BY THE REV. GEORGE WOODLEY. RISING from the dark wild sea, (Awful in immensity!) Based upon a craggy rock, That long has braved th' infuriate shock Rock and tower in Ocean's realm-- Now, while in her ebon car, While the chill and boisterous breeze Bright, through vapour, mist, and cloud, This description is strictly applicable only to the revolving lights displayed on some parts of our coast. THE human mind--that lofty thing! And breathes his judgment tone- That mystery and marvel bind All soft and beautiful they come; The human heart-that restless thing! The child of pain and pride; Yet do we bless thee as thou art, And wherefore bless thee?-O there lies Disguised hope we sec. Yet, though the golden fruit be gone, On Passion's fragrant tree, The human soul-that holy thing! The angel sleeping on the wing, She calls on purity to bless The presence-hall of prayer: Her hope, her joy, are there; When o'er the landscape, drear and dim, He hath spanned the waves with his glorious bow, And dyed with its colours the ships below. He hath look'd on the clouds, and they've floated away: He hath gilded the rocks, and gemm'd them with spray: He hath breathed on the waters, and bid them be still: He hath hush'd the broad waves with the word of His will. He hath open'd the heavens, He hath sent forth his showers, To gladden the field and the spring-starting flowers: And now He hath gather'd the tears of the sky, And spread them abroad, like smiles from on high. H. T** Y. REBECCA PARTING WITH JACOB. BY MISS EMILY TAYLOR. My youngest born, my pride of heart, thou must, thou must away; Thy brother's wrathful hand is raised, and here thou canst not stay. O, I have deeply sinn'd for thee! the chastisement be mine, And I will bear it all, my son!—the blessing shall be thine. What matter though my childless years in grief and pain pass on? Thou wilt be safe from danger's hour, my own, my darling son! And, like the fountain sending forth a sweet and murmuring sound, Thy pleasant voice will come to me, from some far distant ground. Go, bear thy mother's blessing back to those from whom she came; My kinsmen's hearts will leap with joy to hear Rebecca's name. Say to them, Haran's shaded well, and flocks that near it stray, Come to me in my midnight dreams as fresh as yesterday. Speed on-and when thy nimble feet have brought thee to the place, And when thou stand'st, an exiled one, before my brother's face, Tell him thou bear'st thy mother's soul, and therefore wilt not twine Around the savage olive-tree a strong and noble vine. Ask if, of all my kinsman's house, no maiden bright there be, Of lofty soul, with heart to seek thy father's God with thee, And if there be, O! say to her, "Rebecca left her all; The Father of the faithful spake, and she obey'd the call." The angel of the covenant protect thee, precious child! Defend thee from the cover'd snare, direct thee in the wild! O! I shall weep in darkness oft, to think thy houseless head Must pillow on the stony ground or seek the foxes' bed. INDEX TO VOLUME II. A. Accountableness of Man for his Belief, Ward- Advancement of Society in Knowledge and Adulation and Calumny, on, 74. Africa, South, Researches in, 43. 155. Album, the Poetical, 299. Antiquity, Religious Symbols of, 480. Avenger, the, stayed, 282. B. Babylon Destroyed, 197. Balaam, on the Prophecy of, 208. Barrow, Isaac, Discourses in Vindication of the Christian Faith, 1. Christians are Stewards, 88. Commit thy way unto the Lord, 368. Controversy between Roman Catholics and Corinthians, Lothian's Expository Lectures on Course of Time, Pollock's, alleged defect in, 52. Cunninghame on the second coming of Mes- D. Davies' Estimate of the Human Mind, 93. Examination of one of his Ser- Davidica, by Thomson, 280. Bertholdt's Introduction, 288. Bible and Lord Byron, 486. De Courcy, original letter of, 211. Bible, Townley's Introduction to the literary | Dewar's Elements of Moral Philosophy, 93. history of the, 93. Hebrew, 367. Dispensation, present, on the spirituality of Society, Report of the British and Fo- Druids, the Celtic, 31. Biblical Anecdote, 216. Bickersteth on Justification by Faith, 190. Blunt, on the veracity of the Gospels and Acts, 327. Bohemia, Protestantism advancing in, 62. Britons, ancient, on the origin, learning, reli- Burton, on the Testimonies of the Ante-Nicene the, 119. E. Eastern and Western Apostacies, on the delu- Egypt, the last Plague of, 560. Ezra, autograph of, 217. F. Farewell to Time, 280. Fortitude of Heathens, and Magnanimity of French Protestants and Jesuits, 62. G. Germany, appendix to "the State of Religion Gipsies in England, 40. Jews, on the present state of the, 415. Johnson, Dr., on the Religious Character of, Prideaux, Dr. 8. 169. Preaching the Gospel, thoughts on, 70. Richmond, Legh, Memoirs of, 260. Roman Catholic clergy in France, number of, 62. faith, nullity of the, 469. Rose's appendix, 92. Russel's Connexion of Sacred and Profane His- 8. Ryland's Pastoral Memorials, of, 215. S. Sacred Writers, accuracy of the, 61. Self-examination, on, 60. Vision of the Heavenly World, Leslie's, 129. Self-government, a concise system of, by Ed- Voices, the two, 559. monson, 94. Self-knowledge, on, 319. Self-examination, 337. Shuckford, Dr. 9. W. Walsh's Travels, 230. 254. Sick, practical suggestions for relieving the Watch, by Dr. J. M. Good, 279. sufferings of, 220. Simplicity, on, 233. Smith, (Dr. J. P.) Discourses on the Sacrifice Societies, receipts of, religious and benevolent, South Africa, Researches in, 43, 155. St. Bartholomew's day, Massacre on, 200. Water of Life, the, 325. Y. Young, Letters to the, 372. 428. 511. Z. Zuinglius, the Swiss Reformer, 547. END OF VOL. II. |