A HYMN. BY THOMAS TOD STODART. THE glory unto Thee! Who dost on thy eternal wings o'ershade Hast thy immortal dwelling made; Angels of light! The glory unto Thee! Thou wast of old and art the living God; The shadows of their birthless dead; Glory of glories is thy great abode ! Of gems and morning dews, G The glory unto Thee! For Death and Sin were vaunting how we fell Until from throne of wondrous flame The everlasting Shiloh came, Invisible becoming visible! Then to her adamantine gate, Hell like a stormy sea Trembled in dread of thee, Th' Immaculate! The glory unto Thee! Tenfold for ever and for ever more! Let ransom'd worlds in wondrous throng, Of choirs, that meet upon the living shore, From the right hand of Him, Chief among Cherubim! The great I am! THE ORIGINAL DIGNITY OF CHRIST. By the Author of "The Pastor of Blamont."-" The Early Christians; or, the Aspect and Spirit of Primitive Christianity," &c. "WHO by searching can find out God, who can find him out to perfection?" What has all the light, which human philosophy has ever kindled, accomplished towards the developement of the fathomless Infinite? What does all that the ancient philosophers, and even those who, with the book of revelation before them, but who having affected to think independently of it, have advanced upon this profound subject, amount to, but doubt and speculation? True, they have made some advances in their endeavours to penetrate the arcana of nature-they have succeeded in embodying their discoveries into some. thing like rational aud scientific system; but is it not equally true, that every step thus taken has gone further to prove the might of the First Great Cause, and to render Deity still more illustrious and incomprehensible? It has and the fact has thereby been made still more evident, that none but Deity can explain the nature and properties of the Divine existence. : But the question is, has such a revelation been vouchsafed so far as is compatible with the present condition of man? The Christian replies in the affirmative. He says he finds the book called the Bible, and which claims to have been written under the influence of divine inspiration, to possess every mark of its high origin; and learning therein that man by wisdom knows not God, he has forsaken the parade of philosophical disquisition, and pursuing the study of that book with an acknowledgment of native weakness and ignorance, he declares that he not only discovers that it contains an appropriate and consistent elucidation of the mystery of the being of God, but that in the prosecution of his sacred contemplations the gate of spiritual intercourse with his Maker is thereby thrown open, and that he is favoured with fellowship with the FATHER, and with the Son, and with the HOLY GHOST. Yes, from the testimony of divine revelation alone, is it discovered that the uncreated, unbeginning, unending Fountain of light and of life, is three in name, one in being, holding together a mystery of godly communion, unfathomable to all but the eternal divinity. And because this discovery runs counter to the various theories which have been otherwise formed upon the subject, shall it be neglected; or because our finite minds are incompetent fully to comprehend the nature and properties of the Deity, shall we deny this mystery, forming as it does one of its chiefest glories? Who but will be ready to admit, that such a communion in the Godhead may exist, since the most |