"Nature's varied voices
Chant the sweet refrain,
Echo o'er the mountain,
Linger on the plain,
Thunder in the ocean,
Whisper in the shell,
Murmur in the breezes,
Sighing in the dell.
"Shall our lips be silent?
Shall our lives be still?
Tune our hearts, O Father,
To perform Thy will;
Fill our souls with rapture,
Fill our hearts with praise,
Give us grace to follow
Gladly all our days."
M. A. E.
THE SIXTH DAY
THE CROWN OF GOD'S CREATION.
"The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life."—JOB xxxiii. 4.
"In Him we live, and move, and have our being … for we are also His offspring."—ACTS xvii. 28.
"I will praise Thee: for I am fearfully and wonderfully made."—PSALM cxxxix. 14.
"Ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body."—1 COR. vi. 20.
Before we speak of the last work of God upon the last of those wonderful days of which we are told in the first chapter of the Bible, let us read the verses about it, from the twenty-sixth to the end of that chapter, and to the tenth verse of the next. And then let us read the eighth Psalm, unless indeed you can repeat it, as my little scholars once could—and I hope they have not forgotten it now.