Still lying in the basket as fresh plucked; Thus blight green ears? The tenor voice may go ; The tend'rest fibres to be intertwined Amid the heart-roots; then, when firmly fixed, Ye who bewail the loss Might not the insect on the withered moss, In unimpeded course from flower to flower? The visible horizon, there to light Some other segment of the universe. To live for endless years! The gathered flower Transferred to genial climes. Consider all That bud of promise has been saved! The dove 1 See this thought in Edmeston's "Sacred Poetry." Meanwhile, bereaved one, cast Thy heavy burden on the Lord thy God; In mightier wrestlings to His plighted word. The widowed monarch in her sackclothed halls, Say, "Is it well with thee and with the child?” In calm assurance of its peerless bliss Make answer, "IT IS WELL!" II. THE DEATH OF AN ONLY SON. AND IT CAME TO PASS THE DAY AFTER, THAT HE WENT INTO A CITY CALLED NAIN; AND MANY OF HIS DISCIPLES WENT WITH HIM, AND MUCH PEOPLE. NOW, WHEN HE CAME NIGH TO THE GATE OF THE CITY, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A DEAD MAN CARRIED OUT, THE ONLY SON OF HIS MOTHER, AND SHE WAS A WIDOW AND MUCH PEOPLE OF THE CITY WAS WITH HER. AND WHEN THE LORD SAW HER, HE HAD COMPASSION ON HER, AND SAID UNTO HER, WEEP NOT. AND HE CAME AND TOUCHED THE BIER: AND THEY THAT BARE HIM STOOD STILL. AND HE SAID, YOUNG MAN, I SAY UNTO THEE, ARISE. AND HE THAT WAS DEAD SAT UP, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK. AND HE DELIVERED HIM TO HIS MOTHER. AND THERE CAME A FEAR ON ALL AND THEY GLORIFIED GOD, SAYING, THAT A GREAT PROPHET IS RISEN UP AMONG US; AND, THAT GOD HATH VISITED HIS PEOPLE."-LUKE vii. 11-16. (61) THE DEATH OF AN ONLY SON. E have here another eclipse of young life in the land of Palestine. It is one that occurred not in Old Testament, but in gospel a memory hallowed and consecrated, too, by holier footsteps than those even of the great Elijah. times; On one of the declivities of Mount Tabor, in the vast plain of Esdraelon-the golden granary of the Holy Land and the battlefield of Hebrew history—the traveller still discovers the ruins of the city of NAIN. It is invested with imperishable interest from this one solitary but touching event, with which its name is associated in gospel story. Jesus and His disciples, along with "much people," took this journey of twelve miles from the city of Capernaum; and as the shadows of evening were beginning to fall, they found themselves approaching the village by its one entrance on the slopes of the wooded mountain. Jewish cemeteries were always situated outside the walls of their towns, and the time of burial was at sunset. The bier was carried on the shoulders, with the face exposed, till they came to |