cone; it lay without feet, or shape, or power to move. 5. I looked again; it had burst its tomb; it was full of life, and sailed on coloured wings through the soft air; it rejoiced in its new being. 6. Thus shall it be with thee, O man! and so shall thy life be renewed. Beauty shall spring up out of ashes, and life out of the dust. 7. A little while shalt thou lie in the ground, as the seed lies in the bosom of the earth; but thou shalt be raised again: and thou shalt never die any more. 8. Who is he that comes to burst open the prison doors of the tomb; to bid the dead awake; and to gather his redeemed from the four winds of heaven? 9. He descends on a fiery cloud; the sound of a trumpet goes before him; thousands of angels are on his right hand. 10. It is Jesus, the Son of God; the Saviour of men; the friend of the good. He comes in the glory of his Father; he has received power from on high. 11. Mourn not, therefore, child of immortality! for the spoiler, the cruel spoiler, that laid waste the works of God, is subdued. Jesus has conquered death-child of immortality! mourn no longer. LESSON XXXVI. THE DISCONTENTED PENDULUM. 1. An old clock that had stood for fifty years in a farmer's kitchen, without giving its owner any cause of complaint, early one summer's morning, before the family was stirring, suddenly stopped. 2. Upon this the dial-plate (if we may credit the fable) changed countenance with alarm; the hands made a vain effort to continue their course the wheels remained motionless with surprise; the weights hung speechless; each member felt disposed to lay the blame on the others. 3. At length the dial instituted a formal inquiry as to the cause of the stagnation, when hands, wheels and weights with one voice protested their innocence. 4. But now a faint tick was heard below from the pendulum, who thus spoke: "I confess myself to be the sole cause of the present stoppage; and I am willing, for the general satisfaction, to assign my reasons. The truth is, that I am tired of ticking." 5. Upon hearing this, the old clock became so enraged, that it was on the very point of striking. 6. "Lazy wire!" exclaimed the dial-plate, holding up its hands. 7. "Very good!" replied the pendulum, "it is vastly easy for you, Mistress Dial, who have always, as every body knows, set yourself up above me, it is vastly easy for you, I say, to accuse other people of laziness! 8. "You who have had nothing to do all the days of your life, but to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen! 9. "Think, I beseech you, how you would like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards, and forwards year after year, as I do." 10. "As to that," said the dial, " is there not a window in your house, on purpose for you to look through ?" 11. "Notwithstanding all that," resumed the pendulum, "it is very dark here; and although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look through it. 12. "Besides, I am really tired of my way of life; and if you wish, I'll tell you how I took this disgust at my employment. 13. "I happened this morning to be calculating how many times I should have to tick in the course of only the next twenty-four hours; perhaps some of you above there can give me the 14. The minute hand, being quick at figures, weary in well doing," from the much to do. it moment is all we have to do e; the past is irrecoverable; ertain; nor is it fair to burden the weight of the next. unto the moment is the trouble had to walk a hundred miles, have to set but one step at a >cess continued, would infallibly urney's end. enerally begins, and is always culating in a minute, the exer ras at all fatiguing or disagreece 'c vy? looking forward to future life, that we have not to sustain all all its sufferings, or encounter once. nent comes laden with its own hen flies, and is succeeded by ier than the last :-if one could 1 another and another. ooking forward to a single day, sometimes faint from an anticipaes, the labours, the trials to teme, that may be expected. Not in the least." repied the presbian. ! not of six strokes that I but of millions s is unjustly laying the burden of Let any moments upon one. ays to do right now, leaving then ; and if he were to live to the ah, he would never do wrong. common errour is to resolve to 1. "Very good" 6. "Lazy wire!" exclaimed the dial-plate, holding up its hands. 7. "Very good!" replied the pendulum, "it is vastly easy for you, Mistress Dial, who have always, as every body knows, set yourself up above me, it is vastly easy for you, I say, to accuse other people of laziness! 8. "You who have had nothing to do all the days of your life, but to stare people in the face, and to amuse yourself with watching all that goes on in the kitchen! 9. "Think, I beseech you, how you would like to be shut up for life in this dark closet, and to wag backwards, and forwards year after year, as I do." 10. "As to that," said the dial, " is there not a window in your house, on purpose for you to look through ?" 11. " Notwithstanding all that," resumed the pendulum, "it is very dark here; and although there is a window, I dare not stop, even for an instant, to look through it. 12. "Besides, I am really tired of my way of life; and if you wish, I'll tell you how I took this disgust at my employment. 13. "I happened this morning to be calculating how many times I should have to tick in the course of only the next twenty-four hours; perhaps some of you above there can give me the exact sum." 14. The minute hand, being quick at figures, |