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* * * * * I subjoin, as an exercise for teachers themselves, the following hymn, as one calculated to induce reflections on the scenes of nature, and direct the mind to that Being who is the Source of all excellence! 1 Hast -- -- beheld -- -- glorious Through all -- -- skies his circuit run, At rising morn, -- -- closing day, And when he beam'd his noontide 2 Say, didst -- -- e'er attentive The evening cloud, -- -- morning dew?
Or, after -- --, the watery bow Rise in the -- -- a beauteous ----?
3 When darkness had o'erspread the ---- Hast thou e'er seen the -- -- arise, And with a mild and placid ---- Shed lustre o'er the face of night?
4 Hast -- -- e'er wander'd o'er the plain, And view'd the fields and waving -- --, The flowery mead, -- -- leafy grove, Where all -- -- harmony -- -- love.
5 Hast thou e'er trod the sandy ---- And -- -- the restless -- -- roar, When roused by some tremendous ---- It's billows rose -- -- dreadful form?
Hast thou beheld the -- -- stream Thro' nights dark gloom, -- -- sudden gleam, While the bellowing thunder's ---- Roll'd rattling -- -- the heaven's profound?
7 Hast thou e'er -- -- the cutting gale, The sleeting shower, -- -- the biting hail; Beheld -- -- snow o'erspread the The water bound -- -- icy chains?
8 Hast thou the various beings ---- That sport -- -- the valley green, That -- -- warble on the spray, Or wanton in the sunny ----?
9 That shoot along -- -- briny deep, Or -- -- ground their dwellings keep; That thro' the -- -- forest range, Or frightful wilds -- -- deserts strange?
10 Hast -- -- the wondrous scenes survey'd That all around thee -- -- display'd?
And hast -- -- never raised thine To Him -- -- bade these scenes arise?
11 'Twas GOD who form'd the concave ---- And all the glorious orbs -- -- high; -- -- gave the various beings birth, That people all the spacious -- --.
12 'Tis -- -- that bids the tempests And rolls the -- -- thro' -- -- skies: His voice the elements ---- Thro' all the -- -- extends His sway.
13 His goodness -- -- His creatures share, But MAN is HIS peculiar -- --.
Then, while they all proclaim -- -- praise, Let -- -- his -- -- the loudest -- --.
The elliptical plan has been found to be most successful, and has been applied with equal success in schools for older children, and also children of another grade.Messrs.Chambers, I believe, are the only persons, as far as I know, who have the honesty to acknowledge the source from whence this plan was taken..