A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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J. Montgomery.

SUPERSTITION.

Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.—Acts, xvii. 22.

’Tis Superstition! that

Dread bolt that seems to him and thee the home

Of torture, is the earth, the beauteous earth,

Created by thy God, a perfect thing,

All loveliness, and life, and light, to be

The dwelling-place of thee and thine—but this,