For the leader's eye is on us, Wide the trackless prairies round us, Smile the soft savannas green, 4. Bring your axes, woodmen true; 5. Of heaven's sunny eye looks through O'er the torrents fling your bridges, Coming after us, will find Surer, easier footing there; Heart to heart, and hand to hand, Scouts upon the mountain's peak- LESSON VI.-GOD IS EVERY WHERE. 1. OH! show me where is He, The high and holy One, To whom thou bend'st the knee, And pray'st', "Thy will be done'!" I hear thy song of praise', And lo! no form' is near: But where doth God appear'? Oh! teach me who is' God, and where his glories shine', That I may kneel and pray, and call thy Father mine. 2. "Gaze on that arch above'; In strength and beauty rise'? There view immensity! behold! my God is there: He rear'd those giant cliffs', supplies that dashing stream', Where finny nations glide; Tempest and calms obey the same almighty voice Which rules the earth and skies, and bids far worlds rejoice. 5. "No human thoughts can soar That God is every where: The viewless Spirit'! He-immortal', holy', blest': Oh! worship him in faith', and find eternal rest' !"—Anonymous. PATERNAL AFFECTION. Some feelings are to mortals given, From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so meek It would not stain an angel's cheek, PART XI. HISTORICAL. ANCIENT HISTORY PRIOR TO THE CHRISTIAN ERA. LESSON I.-EARLY GRECIAN HISTORY. 1. NEARLY all that is of interest and importance to us in the history of the world prior to the Christian era is embraced in the history of the Jews, and in Grecian and Roman history. To the Bible, chiefly, we are to look for the details of the former. Grecian history follows next in the order of time, beginning far back in the gloom of antiquity, with the supposed founding of Argos in the year 1856 before the Christian era, and extending down to the conquest of Greece by the Romans in the year 146 B.C. After this latter period, and during several centuries, the history of the then known world is absorbed in the overshadowing of, first, the Roman republic, and, afterward, of the Roman empire. 2. All that is known of Grecian history during a period of more than a thousand years after the date arbitrarily assigned for the founding of Argos, rests on no better basis than the songs and traditionary legends of bards and story-tellers. During this long period it is impossible to distinguish names and events, real and historical, from fictitious creations which so confound the human and the divine as to mock all attempts at elucidation. We must therefore set aside as merely pleasing fictions, to be classed with the legends of the gods, the stories of Ce'crops, and Cran'aus, and Dân'aus, the account of the Argonautic expedition, and the labors of Hercules; and even the beautiful story of Helen and the Trojan war, "the most splendid gem in the Grecian legends," is declared by the historian Grote to be "essentially a legend, and nothing more." 3. But out of this thousand years of darkness a something tangible and reliable has, nevertheless, been obtained, which may be dignified with the name of history-a history of what the people thought, though not of what they did. From fable, and legend, and tradition, we learn what was the relig ious belief of the early Greeks, and this has been embodied in what is called Grecian mythology. 4. The early Greeks, like all rude, uncultivated tribes, probably associated their earliest religious emotions with the character of surrounding objects, and ascribed its appropriate deity to every manifestation of power in the visible universe. Thus they had nymphs of the forests, rivers, meadows, and fountains, and gods and goddesses almost innumerable, some terrestrial, others celestial, according to the places over which they were supposed to preside, and rising in importance in proportion to the power they manifested. The foundation of this religion, like all others, was a belief in higher existences which have an influence over the destinies of mortals. The process by which the beings of Grecian mythology naturally arose out of the teeming fancies of the ardent Greek mind, is beautifully described by Wordsworth in the following lines. LESSON II.-GRECIAN MYTHOLOGY. 1. In that fair clime, the lonely herdsman, stretched And in some fit of weariness, if he, When his own breath was silent, chanced to hear |