WORSHIP.

Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect

God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore
Only among the crowd, and under roofs
That our frail hands have raised?

a. BRYANT-A Forest Hymn.

Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.

b.

CARLYLE-Essays. Goethe's Works.

Praise him each savage furious Beast That on his stores do daily feast! And you tame Slaves, of the laborious plow, Your weary knees to your Creator bow." C. WENTWORTH DILLON (Earl of Roscommon)-Miscellanies. A Paraphrase on Psalm CXLVIII. Line 53.

What greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.

d. EMERSON-An Address. July 15, 1838. Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

HERBERT-The Temple. The Church

Porch.

"Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, Whilk sent this summer day.'

f.

ALEXANDER HUME-Evening. St. 2. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

9. MILTON Paradise Lost. Bk. IV.

Line 680.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends!

Hath he not always treasures, always friends. The good great man? three treasures-love and light,

And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath:

And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,

Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
COLERIDGE-Reproof.

k. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards. .1. POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. IV.

Line 215.

Life's lasting date from cancell'd destiny. The Rape of Lucrece. Line 1727. Mine honour be the knife's that makes my wound.

S.

The Rape of Lucrece. Line 1201. Show you sweet Cæsar's wounds, poor, poor, dumb mouths,

And bid them speak for me. t. Julius Cæsar.

Act III. Sc. 2.

The private wound is deepest: O time most

accurs'd!

'Mongst all foes, that a friend should be the

The wound of peace is surety,

Surety secure.

v. Troilus and Cressida. Act II. Sc. 2.

What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? 10. Othello. Act II. Sc. 3.

Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;

But there are forms which Time to touch forbears,

And turns aside his scythe to vulger things. f. BYRON-Don Juan. Canto V. St. 18.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

g.

CARLYLE-Essays. Schiller.

The morning of life is like the dawn of day, full of purity, of imagery, and harmony. h. CHATEAUBRIAND.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. i. CICERO.

It is a truth but too well known, that rashness attends youth, as prudence does old

The Poet.

Introduction.

Youth holds no society with grief.

q.

EURIPIDES.

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together, Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather,

Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short, Youth is nimble, age is lame;

Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold. Youth is wild and age is tame.

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee. The Passionate Pilgrim. St. 12.

0.

ZEAL.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country. a. ADDISON-Freeholder. No. 5.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity; the former is but human, the latter is divine.

b. HOSEA BALLOU-MSS. Sermons.

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

C. BUDDHA.

ZEPHYRS.

England.

Line 565. His zeal

p.

HOOD-The Plea of the Midsummer