mony of the spheres, it was lavishing its inexhaustible resources on the beauties and varieties, and arrangements, of every one scene, however humble, of every one field, however narrow, of the creation he had formed.

It is a cheering evidence of the delight he takes in communicating happiness, that the whole of immensity should be so strewed with the inhabitants of life and intelligence; but it would surely bring home the evidence, with a nearer and more affecting impression, to every bosom, did we know, that at the very time his benignant regard took in the mighty circle of created beings, there was not a single family overlooked by him, and that every individual in every corner of his dominions, was as effectually seen to, as if the object of an exclusive and undivided care. It is our imperfection, that we cannot give our attention to more than one object at one and the same instant of time; but surely it would elevate our every idea of the perfection of God, did we know, that while his comprehensive mind could grasp the whole amplitude of nature, to the very uttermost of its boundaries, he had an attentive eye fastened on the very humblest of its objects, and pondered every thought of my heart, and noticed every footstep of my goings, and treasured up in his remembrance every turn, and movement of my history. His eye is upon every hour of my existence. His spirit is intimately present with every thought of my heart. His inspiration gives birth to every purpose within me. His hand impresses a direction on every footstep of my goings. Every breath I inhale, is drawn by an energy which God deals out to me. This body, which, upon the slightest derangement, would become the prey of death, or of woful suffering, is now at ease, because he is, at this moment, warding off from me a thousand dangers, and upholding the thousand movements of its complex and delicate machinery. His presiding influence keeps me through the whole current of my restless and ever changing history. When I walk by the way side, he is along with me, when I enter into company, amid all my forgetfulness of him, he never forgets me. In the silent watches of the night, when my eyelids have closed, and my

-Spheres, heavenly bodies, any globular body. Lavishing, bountifully bestowing, profusely expending. Varieties, diversities, various circumstances.

-Creation, time of creating the world, making all things. .Inexhaustible, not to be spent.

What is a delightful evidence of God's desire to communicate happiness?

Immensity, illimitable space.

Strewed, stro'd, sown, scattered.
Inhabitants of life, living beings.
Impression, evidence, feeling.

Benignant, pleasing, gracious, kind, generous.
-Circle, circumference, orb, round body, universe.
Is God every where present in his dominions?
Is nothing overlooked by him?

Effectually. From what derived?

What is a proof of our imperfection?

What do you understand by the perfections of God? Comprehensive, enlarged, unlimited.

Amplitude, breadth, largeness; from ample.

Boundaries, bounds, outer limits.

Humblest, smallest, lowliest, most humble.

-Heart, organ of life, seat of life, affections, mind, soul. Remembrance, recollection, memory.

Inspiration, power, drawing in of breath, breathing

into.

Spell impresses, thousand, thöủ'zånd.

Are we indebted to God for life and breath?"In him we live and move and have our being." Derangement, dè-range'mênt, disorder.

Prey, victim, food, spoil.

Complex, complicated, consisting of many parts.
Current, running stream, course, progress.

Is God every where present? Must he, of course, know all that I do ?

-Watches, protects, instruments to measure time, divisions of the night. The Jews divided the night into four watches, or equal portions.

Eyelids, the membranes, that shoot over the eyes. Of what is the word compounded? What parts of speech are the simple words?

spirit has sunk into unconsciousness, the observant eye of Him who never sleeps is upon me. I cannot fly from his presence. Go where I will, he tends me, and watches me, and cares for me; and the same being who is now at work in the remotest domains of nature, and of providence, is also at my right hand to eke out to me every moment of my being, and to uphold me in the exercise of all my feelings, and of all my faculties.

Now, what God is doing with me, he is doing with every distinct individual of this world's population. The intimacy of his presence, and attention and care, reaches to one and to all of them. With a mind unburdened by the vastness of all its other concerns, he can prosecute, without distraction, the government and guardianship of every one son and daughter of the specics.

LESSON LIII.

Hyder Al-Burke.

When at length Hyder Ali found, that he had to do with men who would either sign no convention, or whom no treaty and no signature, could bind, and who were the determined enemies of human intercourse itself, he decreed to make the country possessed by these incorrigible and predestinated criminals a memorable example to mankind. He resolved in the gloomy recesses of a mind capacious of such things, to leave the whole Carnatic an everlasting monument of vengeance; and to put perpetual desolation as a barrier between him and those against whom the faith which holds the moral elements of the world together was no protection. He became at length so confident of his force, so collected in his might, that he made no secret whatever of his dreadful resolution. Having terminated his disputes with every enemy, and rival, who buried their mutual animosities in their common detestation against the creditors of the nabob of Arcot, he drew from every quarter, whatever a savage ferocity could add to his new rudiments in the art of destruction; and, compounding all the materials of fury, havoc, and desola

Spirit, thinking principle, soul, life, energy.
Domains, dominions, provinces.

What is meant by Providence?

To eke out, to distribute, to measure out.
Uphold, sustain, preserve.

Distinct, separate, single, particular.
Population, inhabitants,

To one, and to all, individually and collectively. .Government, gåv'ůrn-mênt, control, superintendence. .Guardianship. What is the derivation?

What ideas does this extract give you of God?

Hyder Ali, a famous chieftain in India.

Had to do, must act, was united, was forced to have intercourse.

-Convention, contract for a limited time, assembly. Signature, signing a name to, the articles of a contract or treaty.

.Incorrigible, bad beyond amendment, most abandoned, irreclaimable.

Predestinated, foreordained, decreed beforehand. Memorable, notable, that which will be remembered. Recesses, dark retreats, caverns, secret apartments. Capacious, capable, wide, vast, extended.

Carnatic. What part of Hindostan is this? See maps. Desolation, ruin, destruction, devastation.

Barrier, boundary, defence, bar to mark the limits of a place.

Moral elements, principles which bind men.

Protection, defence, guard; from what derived ?
Resolution, purpose, determination, decree.

Terminated, ended, settled, concluded.

Animosities, feelings of hatred, enmities.

Detestation, contemning, hatred, abhorrence; from

detest.

Nabob, chief officer, powerful man.

Savage, inhuman, brutal, not civilized, barbarous.

Rudiments, first principles, elements.

Compounding, mixing, combining, uniting.

Havoc, devastation, spoil, plunder.

tion into one black cloud, he hung for a while on the declivities of the mountains. Whilst the authors of these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down its whole contents upon the plains of the Carnatic. Then ensued a scene of wo, the like of which no eye had seen, no heart conceived, and which no tongue can tell. All the horrors of war before known or heard of, were mercy to that havoc. A storm of universal fire blasted every field, consumed every house, destroyed every temple. The miserable inhabitants, flying from their flaming villages, in part were slaughtered-others, without regard to age, to the respect of rank, or sacredness of function-fathers torn from children, husbands from wives, enveloped in a whirlwind of cavalry, and amidst the goading spears of drivers, and the trampling of pursuing horses, were swept into captivity, in an unknown and hostile land. Those who were able to evade this tempest, fled to the walled cities. But escaping from fire, sword, and exile, they fell into the jaws of famine. The alms of the settlement, in this dreadful exigence, were certainly liberal; and all was done by charity, that private charity could do; but it was a people in beggary; it was a nation that stretched out its hands for food. For months together these creatures of sufferance, whose very excess and luxury, in their most plenteous days, had fallen short of the allowance of our austerest fasts, silent, patient, resigned, without sedition or disturbance, alinost without complaint, perished by a hundred a day in the streets of Madras. Every day seventy laid their bodies in the streets, or on the glacis of Tanjore, and expired of famine in the granary of India. I was going to awake your justice towards this unhappy part of our fellow citizens, by bringing before you some of the circumstances of this plague of hunger. Of all the calamities which beset and waylay the life of man, this comes nearest to our heart, and is that in which the proudest of us all feels himself to be nothing more than he is : but I find myself unable to manage it with decorum. These details are of a species of horror so nauseous and disgusting; they are so degrading to the sufferers and to