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And now for Commerce, Science, Peace, Redemption, Freedom, Love's increase, He bids great Ocean's barriers cease, While flames celestial flash from shore to shore! And nations pause 'mid battles' deadliest roar, Till Earth's one heart swells upward, and brims o'er With thanks! thanks! thanks, and praise! To Him who lives always!

Who reigns through endless days!

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While halleluiahs sweet

Roll up as incense meet,

And all Earth's crowns are cast before His feet!

"And there was no more sea,"
Spake in rapt vision he

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a new heaven and a new earth" behield! And lo! we see the day

That ends its weltering sway,

And weds the nations, long asunder held!
Twelve years of toil, of failure, fear,
Thousands to scorn and few to cheer,
What are they now to ears that hear,
Το eyes that see their triumph near?

When lightning-flames the ends of earth shall weld,
And wrong and right, by lightning beams dispelled,
Shall lift from all man's race,

And God the Father's face

Shall smile o'er all the world millennial grace!

FRANKLIN! and MORSE 5! and FIELD!
Great shades of centuries yield!

Make way for these in your sublimest throng!
Heroes of blood, great in immortal wrong,

Stoop your helmed heads, and blush! O seers of song!
Of blood and strife no longer sing;

In heavenlier transport smite the string;
Soar, soar on purer, rapter wing,
Till all the throbbing azure ring

The song that erst began:

"Good will and peace toward man,"
Redeemed and bought with blood,
One mighty brotherhood!

And every bond that brings heart nearer heart,
Shall bring man nearer God, and bear a part
In that great work benign,-

The work of love, that makes all worlds divine!

LESSON XC.

1 OR PHE AN, pertaining to Orpheus, one of the ancient Grecian bards, who is fabled to have tamed the wildest animals by the music of his lyre. Hence, an Orphean song is one that charms like the strains of Orpheus. 2 AN' TI PODES or AN TIPO DES (ANTI, opposite or against; PODES, feet;) with feet opposite. People who live on the opposite side of the globe, and whose feet are, of course, directly opposite to the feet of those who live on this side.

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THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

ANON,

ARK! the warning needles click,

HA

Hither thither-clear and quick.
He who guides their speaking play,
Stands a thousand miles away!
Here we feel the electric thrill

Guided by his simple will;

Here the instant message read,

Brought with more than lightning speed.
Sing who will of Or'phe-an1 lyre,
Ours the wonder-working wire!

2. Let the sky be dark or clear,
Comes the faithful messenger;
Now it tells of loss and grief,
Now of joy in sentence brief,
Now of safe or sunken ships,
Now the murderer outstrips,
Now of war and fields of blood,
Now of fire, and now of flood.

Sing who will of Orphean lyre,
Ours the wonder-working wire!

3. Think the thought, and speak the word,
It is caught as soon as heard,
Borne o'er mountains, lakes, and seas,
To the far an-tip' o-dēs; 2

Boston speaks at twelve o'clock,
Natchez reads ere noon the shock.

Seems it not a feat sublime'?
INTELLECT has conquered Time!

Sing who will of Orphean lyre,

Ours the wonder-working wire!

4. MARVEL! triumph of our day, Flash all ignorance away! Flash sincerity of speech,

Noblest aims to all who teach;

Flash till Power shall learn the Right,
Flash till Reason conquer Might;

Flash resolve to every mind;
Manhood flash to all mankind!

Sing who will of Orphean lyre,
Ours the wonder-working wire!

LESSON XCI

1 SE'LAH, a word of doubtful meaning, by some supposed to indicate special attention to the subject; by others, to signify silence or a pause in the musical performance of the song while the instrumental performers played some variation or intervening melody.

BEATITUDES.

BIBLE.

In reading these sentences, an excellent effect may be produced by dividing the class equally into two parts, and letting one part read, in concert, the line or lines marked 1st Voice; and the other part, the line or lines marked 2d Voice; or one pupil may read that part marked 1st Voice, and the next pupil the part marked 2d Voice, alternately.

1st Voice. Blessed are the poor in spirit;

2d Voice. for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

1 V. Blessed are they that mourn;

2 V. for they shall be comforted.

1 V. Blessed are the meek;

2 V. for they shall inherit the earth.

1 V. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness;

2. V. for they shall be filled.

1 V. Blessed are the merciful;
2 V. for they shall obtain mercy.
1 V. Blessed are the pure
in heart;
2 V. for they shall see God.

1 V. Blessed are the peace-makers;

2 V. for they shall be called the children of God.

1 V. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake;

2 V. for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

1 V. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

2 V. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward in heaven.

1 V. Blessed is he that considereth the

poor:

2 V. the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.

1 V. Blessings are upon the head of the just;
2 V. but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

1 V. The memory of the just is blessed;

2 V. but the name of the wicked shall rot.

1 V. Blessed are they that dwell in thy house; 2 V. they will be still praising thee. SELAH.1

1 V. Blessed are the people that know the joyful sound; 2 V. they shall walk, O Lord! in the light of thy coun

tenance.

1 V. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in His commandments.

2 V. His seed shall be mighty upon the earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.

1 V. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

2 V. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.