Where are thy garlands, thy festivals where?

The pomp of the proud, and the smiles of the fair?

But haste thee, prepare! for thy God is at hand; He comes with his saints, with a glorified band, Cherub and seraphim crowd in his train, And angels, like stars that encircle the main. O Earth! - O Earth!

O Earth! O Earth!

Pale is thy aspect, and still is thy mirth:
Dark is this hour, for obscured is thy sun,

Thy sky it is sackcloth, thy years - they are run. In drinking and lewdness thy lights have grown dim, And the cup of thy crimes is full to the brim,

The light of his coming is darkness to thee;

'Tis the lightning of wrath: Then haste thee to flee! Flee, if thou canst, from the face of thy God! Hide from his coming! escape from his rod !

III.

With trump, with shout, and angel's song,

The Lord of glory comes along.

Wake ye saints, and join his praises !

Blest the eye on him that gazes!

Rise ye dead, no more to die,

And let your songs of triumph fly

Through earth, and air, and sea, and sky, -

IV.

And ye, my cherished friends of youth,
Knit with every tender thought,
With childhood's love and artless truth,
With bosoms free and hearts unbought !
Ye, o'er whose cold and lifeless clay,
So late the tears of fondness flowed,

As pale and still those features lay

That once with rutual kindness glowed! And ye, whose age with guardian care

My youthful steps preseived and trained,
And fondly called me still to share

The boons of heav'n which you
Live we thus, and meet for ever?
Shall we part? - O never, never.
Come, Messiah,
Be still my heart,

quickly come !

had gained!

be dumb, be dumb.

GLORY BE TO GOD.

GENERAL APPENDIX.

No. I.

SENSATION.

ALTHOUGH I have on valid grounds excused myself from giving any answer to the questions, why, when a nerve is cut, the member which it supplies loses the power of sensation-and why, at death, sensation appears totally to cease; stating that it is not my province to make hypotheses, like those who have invented the common solution, which assigns, as a reason for these facts, the interruption of the fanciful conveyance of the entire impression to the brain, denying the existence of any sensation whatever in the part immediately affected; yet, lest old prejudices should weigh too much against me, I will here indicate what to me appears to be the true explanation of these facts.

First, then, as the immediate cause of sight is not the object itself, but the reflected rays of light entering the eye,-and of sound, not the bell, or other instrument, but the vibrations of the air,

and of smell, not the rose, but the odorous effluvia

inhaled, so of touch, I apprehend the immediate

cause is not the contact of bodies, but the action of the electrical or galvanic fluid on the sentient particles, which is stimulated by the contact; and, generally, in all sensation, I apprehend the immediate agent is the electric fluid, stimulated to a certain action on the sentient particles.

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Second All living animals are possessed of electricity, but dead bodies are void of it. sequently, at death, sensation ceases, because the agent by which sensation is produced in the fine sentient particles is absent, or no longer performs this function; and we may as little expect the sentient particles to have sensation in such a case, as we expect our eyes to see in total darkness: nor do we suppose that the sentient particles have lost their natural power in the one case, any more than we suppose that our eyes have lost their power of seeing in the other, but only that the light is withdrawn, or that the electrical agency has ceased.

Third: The nerves, undeniably, are the conductors of electricity, or galvanism, in the animal frame. Therefore, by cutting or destroying a nerve, the member which it supplied is deprived of that electrical state necessary for sensation. Or, if the nerve which supplies a muscle be cut, then the lower part of that nerve, together with the muscle,

is deprived of that electrical state which is necessary for nervous energy and muscular action.

No. II.

NOTICE OF DR. JAMES HUTTON.

There is a very valuable work, which I rather think is little read by students of mental philosophy, and which I do not remember to have seen noticed in any work on that subject, except in a short and very indefinite allusion by Dugald Stewart. The book I allude to is Dr. James Hutton's" Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge, and the Progress of Reason from Sense to Science and Philosophy." It was not my fortune to meet with it till I had fully written the present work, and in consequence of the perusal I added nothing, except the two last paragraphs of the tenth chapter. The work of Dr. Hutton is evidently the production of a gigantic mind, and contains a great deal of very profound and solid thought. The author, however, has been led into some confusion concerning magnitude and figure; for, denying these to be elementary qualities of matter, on physical principles very like those of Boscovich, he has sometimes inadvertently gone into the error of denying them also in masses of matter. On the subject of perception, also, he