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Title: Beauties of sacred literature ..
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Wyatt, Thomas, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Bible stories, English Religious poetry, American. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Charlestown, Ladies New-England art union
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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he first beginners in its school, may learnHow to rejoice. The sycamores broad leaf,Thrilld by the breeze, the humblest grass birds nest,Murmur of gladness, and the wondering babe,Borne by its nurse out in the open fields,Knoweth that lesson. The wild mountain streamThat throws by fits its gushing music forth.The careless sparrow, happy, though the frostsNip his light foot, have leamd the simpler loreHow to rejoice. Mild nature teacheth itTo all her innocent works. But God aloneInstructeth how to mourn. He doth not trustThis highest lesson to a voice or handSubordinate. Behold! He cometh forth ! 60 BEAUTIES OF SACRED LITERATURE. O sweet disciple, bow thyself to learnThe alphabet of tears. Receive the lore,Sharp though it be, to an unanswering breast,A will subdued. And may such wisdom springFrom these rough rudiments, and thou shalt gainA class more noble, and, advancing, soarWhere the sole lesson is a seraphs praise. Yea, be a docile scholar, and so rise Where mourning hath no place.
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THE RESCUE OF MOSES. BY REV. A. D. GILLETTE, A. M./ Far away in the interior of Africa is Ethiopia,whose valleys and hill-sides are refreshed with plen-teous showers of rain, swelling a thousand rivuletswhich course their meandering way; converging,until unitedly they form the full current of the Nile,Egypts renowned river. This benevolent arrangement of the Creator sendsvast supplies of water, where showers of rain areseldom known to fall; and causes the driest andmost sandy soil to becone the richest and most fruit-ful country in the world. In the kingdom of grace,Jehovah is as wise and bountiful as he is in thekingdom of nature. When Egypt, the most enlight-ened, refined, and powerful nation on the earth, wasgiven up to idol worship, God withheld rain from apious, pastoral people in the land of Canaan, andsent them in great distress down to Egypt, to buy 62 BEAUTIES OF SACRED LITERATURE. corn; for they and their little ones were famishing.The haughty Egyptians soon enslaved them, f

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