tigue you; but you will find it a profitable exercise, if the next week, at breakfast, each one brings a passage from the Word, where the rain and dew and snow are used in illustration. Some months ago, if you remember, you did so, and we were all much interested. Believe me to remain, dear Children, Ever your affectionate Father. LETTER V. AND GOD CALLED THE DRY LAND EARTH ; AND THE GATHERING TOGETHER OF THE WATERS CALLED HE SEAS AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD. AND GOD SAID, LET THE EARTH BRING FORTH GRASS, THE HERB YIELDING SEED, AND THE FRUIT TREE YIELDING FRUIT AFTER HIS KIND, WHOSE SEED IS IN ITSELF, UPON THE EARTH: AND IT WAS SO. AND THE EARTH BROUGHT FORTH GRASS, AND HERB YIELDING SEED AFTER HIS KIND, AND THE TREE YIELDING FRUIT, WHOSE SEED WAS IN ITSELF, AFTER HIS KIND, AND GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD. AND THE EVEN ING AND THE MORNING WERE THE THIRD DAY. My dear Children, Gen. i. 10-13. Two days had now run out of the history of our globe, and the third comes full of blessing. The character of this day's creation was twofold, as the account in Genesis i. fully manifests. The first part, was a call for the dry land (which evidently had been created in the beginning) to appear;-the second, the Creation of the three great orders of vegetation-trees, herbs, and grass; but I know of no part of Scripture that brings out the character of this day's creation so strikingly as the 101th Psalm. |