thousand to flight. peals she makes the feeble to feel strong, and the timid to feel brave. The wearied and the sickly she invigorates, so that they may run through a troop and leap over a wall. Kingdoms have been upheaved as by an earthquake, and thrones overturned, and towers demolished, and scepters broken, when she has succeeded in her powerful appeals.

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IMPULSE has all kinds of arguments for all sorts of persons. With the timid she best succeeds by appealing to their fears. She portrays in the most vivid colors some terrible scene that cannot be looked upon without being aroused. In a thousand ways she manages to influence the fearful; and she is just as well prepared to excite the fearless. She appeals to the ambitious tendencies of the courageous, and impels them forward through toils and dangers, holding before them the crown and the glory of the final triumph.

No one of the DIVINE FAMILY is more easily influenced by IMPULSE than HOPE. These two sisters, with some striking dissimilarities, are exceedingly alike. But HOPE is more spiritual; IMPULSE more material. HOPE has more

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respect to the future; IMPULSE more to the present. HOPE is more serene and happy; IMPULSE more excited and mighty. HOPE is better to persevere; IMPULSE better to rise and begin. HOPE Scatters the seed, and patiently waits to gather; while IMPULSE plants, and watches the changing weather. HOPE looks for the harvest, no matter how bad the season; but IMPULSE wishes each moment to furnish its reason. former has more of happiness; the latter has more of wretchedness. The one overlooks the present in her expectation of the future; the other loses sight of the future in her sensibility of the present.

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IMPULSE does not rank as high as HOPE, as it respects intelligence; but she is HOPE's superior, in respect to sensibility. In her most chastened exercise of pleasure and devotion, she is but little above the higher flights of her brother CONTEMPLATION. When they chant divine praise together, CONTEMPLATION performs the principal part of the grateful melody that rehearses the loving kindness of God, while IMPULSE, with gushing emotions, intersperses the rehearsal with frequent hallelujahs. When IMPULSE leads off with rapturous thanksgivings

CONTEMPLATION watches every opportunity to repeat a Selah.

CONTEMPLATION and IMPULSE are well adapted to help each other in almost every department of mutual labor; and they never do better for themselves than when they are most familiarly connected. Each is a good prompter, or a good check, upon the other; and neither could be spared from the DIVINE FAMILY without incalculable loss. They are never more truly happy and good than when they unite their friendly hands together, and associate for mutual improvement in all that permits them to combine.

Zeal and his Enterprise.

ANALYSIS.

Zeal's Temperament—More Valued than Loved-Characteristics -Family Restraints-Mercy tries to Govern Zeal-Her FailureZeal's Honest Confession-Charity not so Successful with him as Mercy-How Mercy can Affect him-Zeal and Charity not on Intimate Terms-Liberty and Zeal Love each other-Zeal and Truth Disagree-The two Brothers Associated-Zeal's Feet better than his Eyes-Truth's Eyes better than his Feet-Zeal's Usefulness in the Family-Why he is not more Beloved-The Mother's Regard for Him-His Office-Zeal Better than he Looks or Behaves.