While the language free and bold In which our Milton told How the vaults of heaven rung, When Satan, blasted, fell with all his host. Ten thousand echoes greet, And from rock to rock repeat While the manners, while the arts, Between let rivers roll, Our joint communion breaking with the sun : The bands of love stretched wide, With voice of blood shall reach, More audible than speech, And loud proclaim to all that we are one. THE COMMUNION OF CITIZENSHIP AND THE COMMUNION OF SAINTS. Let us then, for I am one of your fraternity,-let us cherish. the communion of citizenship, and, above all, the communion bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as, 'What is all this worth?'-nor those other words of disunion and folly, 'Liberty first, and Union afterward;' but everywhere-spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land and in every wind under the whole heavens-that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart: 'Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.' "I have been abroad," says President Buchanan, "in other lands; I have witnessed arbitrary power; I have contemplated the people of other countries but there is no county under God's heavens where a man feels for his fellow-man, except in the United States. And if you could feel how despotism looks on, how jealous despotic powers of the world are of our glorious institutions, you would cherish the Constitution and Union in your hearts,next to your belief in the Christian religion:-the Bible for heaven, and the Constitution of your country for earth." That is a beautiful figure of Winthrop's, in reference to our Constitution, where he says, "Like one of those wondrous rocking-stones raised by the Druids, which the finger of a child might vibrate to the centre yet the might of an army could not move from its place, our Constitution is so nicely poised that it seems to sway with the very breath of passion, yet so firmly based in the hearts and affections of the people, that the wildest storms of treason and fanaticism break over it in vain.' We trust that this may be verified. "OUR NATIVE Land. "Home of our birth! our dear-loved land, Thy glories stretch from sea to sea: From ocean-lake to tropic strand; Land of the fearless and the free! "From where the western Golden Gate "From far Niagara's deluge wild Ne'er hath the sun of heaven smiled "God and the Union!' This our creed, Our motto this forever be: So shall our starry banner float Forever o'er the brave and free!" of saints, the brotherhood of Christianity. The motto of our national union is the motto also of our Christian union :—E PLURIBUS UNUM,-one from many, many united into one,— every one having his own peculiar and independent institutions, rights, interests, and policy, all having a common constitution, common dangers, and common glory or shame, prosperity or progress. And thus also, while there is one Lord and one Spirit, there are various gifts and diversities of administration in every church and in every individual Christian. The working of the Spirit in the one universal church, made up of all its separate members, is like "the breathing of the wind upon the ocean, no two waves shaping themselves to exact uniformity, and yet all curving and rippling into expressions of one great law, all answering to each other in perfect harmony as developments of one great principle. Every Christian has his own differentia, his own peculiar catalogue of hopes and aspirations and impulses; and yet he has also so much in common with all his brethren in Christ as to be able to make their language his own." Hence arise, like a forest of beautiful peaks soaring heavenward from a single mountain, the innumerable blessings not only of the communion of saints, but, above all, of holy fellowship, holy co-operation and striving together for the furtherance of the gospel. Let us then, as fellow-workmen and fellow-pilgrims, walk hand in hand, bearing one another's burdens, helping each other's infirmities, forbearing one another in love, seeking the things that make for peace, each minding his own business and fulfilling his own task, and all looking for and hasting unto the coming of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Come, brothers! let us onward; Night comes without delay, And in this howling desert It is not good to stay. Take courage and be strong; We are hasting on to heaven; Strength for warfare will be given, And glory won ere long. The pilgrims' path of trial We do not fear to view; We know his voice who calls us, We know him to be true. Then let who will contemn, Come strong in his Almighty grace, On to Jerusalem! O brothers, soon is ended The journey we've begun; The race will soon be run. And in the land of rest In yonder bright eternal home Where all the Father's loved ones come We shall be safe and blest. O my brothers! love and labour! Those whom God alone creates. APPENDIX. 1. SKETCHES OF YOUNG MEN. ALEXANDER OF MACEDON extended his power over Greece, conquered Egypt, rebuilt Alexandria, overran all Asia, and died at thirty-eight years of age. Hannibal was but twenty-five when, after the fall of his father Hamilcar, and Asdrubal his successor, he was chosen commander-in-chief of the Carthaginian army. At twentyseven he captured Saguntum from the Romans. Before he was thirty-four, he carried his arms from Africa into Italy, conquered Publius Scipio on the banks of the Ticinus, routed Sempronius near the Trebia, defeated Flaminius on his approach to the Apennines, laid waste the whole country, defeated Fabius Maximus and Varro, marched into Capua, and at the age of thirty-five was thundering at the gates of Rome. Scipio Africanus was scarcely sixteen when he took an active part in the battle of Cannæ and saved the life of his father. The wreck of the Roman cavalry chose him then for their leader, and he conducted them back to the capital. After he was twenty, he was appointed proconsul of Spain, where he took New Carthage by storm. Soon after he defeated successively Asdrubal, (Hannibal's brother,) Mago, and Hann, crossed over into Africa, negotiating with Syphax, the Massasylian king, returned to Spain, quelled the insurrection there, drove the Carthaginians wholly from the peninsula, returned to Rome, devised the diversion against the Carthaginians by carrying the war into Africa, crossed thither, destroyed the army of Syphax, compelled the return of Hannibal, and defeated Asdrubal a second time. Charlemagne was crowned King of the Franks before he was twenty-six. At the age of twenty-eight, he had conquered Aquitania; at the age of thirty, he made himself master of the whole German and French Empires. Charles XII., of Sweden, was declared of age by the States, and succeeded his father, at the age of fifteen. At eighteen, he headed the expedition against the Danes, whom he checked; and, with a fourth of their numbers, he cut to pieces the Russian army, commanded by the Czar Peter, at Narva, crossed the Dwina, gained a victory over the Saxons, and carried his arms into Poland. At twenty-one, he had conquered Poland and dictated to them a new sovereign. At twenty-four he had |