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HYMN OF THE MORAVIAN NUNS AT THE PRESENTATION OF PULASKI'S BANNER.

TAPERS; ta'pêrz; sound rz, and do not sound é like й. WARRIOR; wâr'yêr; sound r. SHROUD; do not drop the h. ENCIRCLING; ĕn-sêr'kling; do not sound ě like ž.

WHEN the dying flame of day,
Through the chancel shot its ray,
Far the glimmering tapers shed
Faint light on the cowléd head.
And the censer burning swung,
Where, before the altar, hung

That proud banner, which with prayer

Had been consecrated there.

And the nun's sweet hymn was heard the while,
Sung low in the dim, mysterious aisle.

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"Take thy banner!-may it wave
Proudly o'er the good and brave,
When the battle's distant wail
Breaks the Sabbath of our vale,
When the clarion's music thrills
To the hearts of these lone hills,
When the spear in conflict shakes,
When the strong lance shivering breaks.

"Take thy banner!—and beneath
The war-cloud's encircling wreath,
Guard it-till our homes are free-
Guard it God will prosper thee!
In the dark and trying hour,
In the breaking forth of power,
In the rush of steeds and men,
His right hand will shield thee then.

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And the warrior took that banner proud,
And it was his martial cloak and shroud.

LONGFELLOW.

CHANCEL; that part of a church in which the altar is placed, generally divided from the rest by a screen or railing. TAPERS; wax candles, small lights. COWLED; wearing a cowl or monk's hood. CENSER; a vessel in which incense is burnt, a pan for burning perfumes, &c. WAIL; audible sorrow, lamentation. GHASTLY; pale, grim. VANQUISHED; Overcome, subdued. CRIMSON; red darkened with blue, red.

GOOD LUCK AND BAD LUCK.

To impart the secret of what is called good and bad luck is not a difficult task. There are men who, supposing Providence to have an implacable spite against them, bemoan, in the poverty of a wretched old age, the misfortunes of their lives. Luck forever ran against them, and for others.

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One, with a good profession, lost his luck in the river, where he idled away his time in fishing, when he ought to have been in his office. Another, with a good trade, perpetually burnt up his luck by his hot temper, which provoked all his employers to leave him. Another, with a lucrative business, lost his luck by amazing diligence in every thing but his business.

Another, who steadily followed his trade, as steadily followed his bottle. Another, who was honest and constant to his work, erred by perpetual misjudgments; he lacked discretion. Hundreds lose their luck by endorsing; by sanguine speculations; by fraudulent men; and by dishonest gains.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest, who complained of bad luck. A good character, good habits, and iron industry, are impregnable to the assaults of all the ill luck that ever fools dreamed of.

When I see a tatterdemalion, creeping out of a grocery late in the afternoon, with his hands stuck into his pockets, the rim of his hat turned up, and the crown knocked in, I know he has had bad luck; for the worst of all luck is to be a tippler, a knave, or a sluggard.

HENRY BEECHER.

IMPLACABLE; not to be appeased or pacified, inexorable, malicious. BEMOAN; lament. LUCRATIVE; gainful, profitable, bringing money. MISJUDGMENT; erroneous judgment. DISCRETION; prudence, wise management, knowledge to direct one's self. ENDORSING; writing one's name on the back of a note, &c. SANGUINE; ardent, confident, inclined to expect much. FRAUDULENT; full of fraud, deceitful, treachIMPREGNABLE; that cannot be taken or stormed, unmoved, unaffected. TATTERDEMALION; a ragged fellow.

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GREATNESS OF GOD EVEN IN THE SMALLEST

THINGS.

WORLDS; Sound rldz. INSECTS; sound kts; do not call it insex. INSTRUMENTS; u like oo; ěnts, not unse. FIRST; sound r; do not call it fust.

He who delights to contemplate the works of God, will not only discover his hand in those immense globes which compose the system of the universe, but also in the little worlds of insects, plants, and metals. He will search for and adore the wisdom of God as well in the spider's web as in the power of gravitation, which attracts the earth towards the sun.

These researches are at present the easier, as microscopes have discovered to us new scenes and new worlds, in which we behold, in miniature, whatever may excite our admiration. They who have not the opportunity of using such instruments will read, at least, with pleasure, the following remarks on microscopic objects.

Let us, in the first place, observe the inanimate world. Behold those mosses and little plants which God has produced in such abundance. Of what extremely small particles and fine threads are these plants composed! What a variety in their forms and shapes! Think on the innumerable multitude of small particles of which every body is composed, and which may be detached from it!

If a cube, whose side is only one inch, contain a hundred millions of visible parts, who can calculate all the particles which compose a mountain? If millions of globules of water may be suspended from the point of a needle, how many must there be in a spring, in a well, in a river, in the sea?

If one grain of sand contain more than a thousand millions of particles of air, how many must there be in the

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human body? If men can divide one grain of copper into millions of parts, without arriving at the first elements of matter, if odoriferous bodies can exhale a sufficiency of odorous particles, so as to be perceived at a great distance, without any sensible diminution of weight, it would require an eternity for the human mind to calculate the number of particles which exist in those bodies.

If we pass next to the animal kingdom, the scene will be incalculably extended. In summer, the air is full of living creatures. Every person has seen those innumerable swarms of flies, gnats, and other insects, which gather together in a small space. What prodigious hosts must there be of them, that live and sport over the whole earth, and in the immense extent of the atmosphere! How many millions of still smaller insects and worms are there, which crawl on the earth!

With what splendor does the power of God manifest itself to the mind, when we reflect on the multitude of parts of which these creatures are composed, of whose very existence most men are ignorant ! Were we not, at any time, able to prove it by experiment, could we imagine there were animals a million of times less than a grain of sand, with organs of nutrition, motion, &c.? There are shellfish so small, that, even viewed through the microscope, they appear scarcely so large as a grain of barley; and yet they are real animals, with durable dwelling-places, the foldings and recesses of which form so many different apartments.

How exceedingly small is a mite! Nevertheless, this almost imperceptible point, seen through a microscope, is a hairy animal, perfect in all its members, of a regular figure, full of life and sensibility, and provided with every necessary organ. Although this animal is scarcely visible to us, yet it has a multitude of still smaller parts; and, what is yet more admirable, the glasses which show us so many faults and imperfections in the most finished works of man, can

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