make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow; there shall the Vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his Spirit it hath gathered them" (Isaiah χχχίν. 11-16).

How awful is this description; and one turns from it with delight to the next chapter: for the same hour that brings judgment on Edom is full of blessing to Israel. "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. But read the chapter throughout: it is full of triumph, full of blessing.

I might, my beloved children, enlarge yet more; but you can search out yourselves other passages, where the figures of this day are used in illustration. Indeed, to the mind seeking for instruction, every thing around ministers to it. May you be found among the Israel of God; and then, when the Lord shall come in his glory, you shall be caught up to meet him in the air, and so be ever with the Lord (1 Thess. iv. 17). This is the earnest prayer of

Your Affectionate Father.

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LETTER XI.

"AND GOD SAID, LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH THE LIVING CREATURE AFTER HIS KIND, CATTLE, AND CREEPING THING, AND BEAST OF THE EARTH AFTER HIS KIND: AND IT WAS SO. AND GOD MADE THE BEAST OF THE EARTH AFTER HIS KIND, AND CATTLE AFTER THEIR KIND, AND EVERY THING THAT CREEPETH UPON THE EARTH AFTER HIS KIND: AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD. AND GOD SAID, LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS: AND LET THEM HAVE DOMINION OVER THE FISH OF THE SEA, AND OVER THE FOWL OF THE AIR, AND OVER THE CATTLE, AND OVER ALL THE EARTH, AND OVER EVERY CREEPING THING THAT CREEPETH UPON THE EARTH." (Gen. i. 24—26).

My dear children,

We have now arrived at the last day of creation. The Lord had called the world into being;-and had shed his light upon it, he had also surrounded it with an atmosphere graciously adapted for the beings he had destined to live upon it. He had caused the dry land to appear, and covered it with fertility and beauty. He had made the heavens to glow with the brightness of the sun by day, and to be illumined with the gentle rays of the moon, and with innumerable stars by night.

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He had filled the air and sea with animated life.-And now, on this sixth day, he calls into existence a race of beings of a superior order to the birds and fishes; but yet merely animal; and all this being accomplished, there seems a pause in creation. -It is no longer the simple FIAT, or word of God, "Let it be;" but there is counsel between the *Holy Ones that bear record in heaven; and the all important word is, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image,' in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it : and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was

Compare Genesis iii. 22, xi. 7, Isaiah vi. 8, with Matt. xxviii. 19, 2 Cor. xiii. 14, 1 John v. 7.