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96 pages, crown 8vo, sewed, 3d.; by post, 4hd. Reflections respecting the Works of Swedenborg and the Doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church, by RAO BAHADOOR DADOBA PANDU

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The gentleman above named is a man of mark in India.

With respect to him the Bombay Gazette of December 13, 1877, had the following paragraph: "We learn that the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for India has been pleased to send, as a present to our wellknown citizen Rao Bahadoor Dadoba Pandurung, a copy of a new and splendid edition of Patanjali's Mahabhashya,' with Kaiyyata's Bhashyapradipa' and Nagojibhatta's Bhashyapradipoddyota,' in six volumes. This erudite and elaborate work on Sanscrit philology has been got up in the ancient Hindu style, and published at the expense of the State. All the copies are intended to be offered as gifts to distinguished scholars and to learned Societies. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in his recent tour in India, distributed a few copies to the learned Societies and University libraries in this country. This valuable gift is a deserved recognition of the philological acquirements of Mr. Dadoba Pandurung, whose name has been intimately associated with the operations of the Educational Department from its foundation, his school works having been, as they still are, recognised as text-books throughout this Presidency."

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PSALM CXXXVII.

HERE Pride her thoughts in streams doth roll,
We dwelt in deep despair,
We wept with anguish in the soul,

Remembering Zion there.

On earthward themes our harps were hung,
No lofty hymn to raise,

We could not sing the songs we sung

In former love-crowned days.

For how can heart have voice of mirth
'Neath evil's alien sway?

Or how deceit give gladness birth
While wastes the life away?
We dare not sing the Saviour's song
While far estranged we dwell,

For how should then our arm be strong
Against the host of hell?

Till Truth her loved remembrance gain
The mouth and tongue shall cleave;
They have no voice for freedom's strain
Whom earthly joys deceive.
No heavenly birthright they shall find
Whom Edom's sons enthral,
Delights of earth that lure the mind

Bid heav'nly bulwarks fall.

Hence child of Babel's towering pride,
Thyself thou shalt reward,

Deep in the dust thou shalt abide,
By every heart abhorred !

And happy, happy he shall be

Who hurls thine offspring down,
Nor spares the smallest child of thee,
Vile lust of earth's renown!

Each false delight his arms shall fling
Upon Truth's mighty stone,
Till Zion's song he learns to sing
And live her life alone.

AMID THE CORN.

T. W. B.

By the Author of "The Evening and the Morning.”

II. THE WHITSUNTIDE VISIT.

CHAPTER VII.

"I am the Resurrection and the Life."

WILL say little about our visit to the cottage to fetch my sweet ward. It is sufficient to relate that we found her breathing into the dying senses of the fair child of affliction the sweet messages of Jesus and the touching assurances of the divine singer of Israel. The father and mother were on one side of their ¦ daughter's bed, and Hettie was on the other. As we stood in the room, and saw, by the dim light of the candle, Hettie with one arm around the young creature, and the other clasping the white and slender hand, and heard her whispering to the departing soul the expression of Jesus' unimaginable love, Willie was overcome with emotion, and I could not forbear silently thanking my heavenly Father that I had been permitted to direct so intelligent and sweet a spirit to the Source of all intelligence and sweetness, whence it had since the previous Christmas been so invigorated.

Presently the doctor entered, noiseless and gentle as a Hettie moved to relinquish her place and to

woman.

make way for him. Suddenly the dying girl opened her large eyes as in alarm, the lips parted as if to speak, while her hand perceptibly tightened around that of Hettie.

"Never mind-never mind," said the doctor, who understood the movement, "keep where you are, my dear-don't disturb her."

Finding Hettie did not move, the large eyes again. closed, and the frame relaxed and sank back in the nursing arm. The doctor thereupon approached the bed on the side on which the father and mother were sitting, and, leaning over, took the disengaged hand of the patient. He held it for about two minutes, and then laid it gently down.

"There," he said, "you may come away now, my dear; she will not stir to detain you now."

As Hettie arose and came from the bed the only eyes dry were those of the doctor and the aged parents. Hettie was sobbing bitterly.

"Why, my darling dear," said the old man to Hettie, "don't fret: she's passed from your arms into them that are stronger and kinder."

"Safe in the arms of Jesus,'" said Hettie through her sobs-"I know that."

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"DIE!" said the old man, "why, she ain't dead. that believeth in Me shall never die.' Didn't Jesus say that? Why, she's alive yet, and more alive than ever."

"Ah, sure," said the old lady, who had listened to her husband's remarks with her hand at her ear: "how often did she say those verses Miss Hettie taught her. She never called it death; she always said she was waiting for her birth, for when she died to us she would be born among the angels."

"Ah," said the doctor, "I see; the young lady here has been teaching her the occult sciences-I am not acquainted with them. Good night!"

Shortly afterwards we took our leave, and after an interval of silent thought I asked Hettie what the verses were which she had taught the afflicted girl.

"Why, those from Dr. Newman's Lyra Mystica.' Don't you remember them—

'Say! say! is it to die

To give this weary body unto sleeping?

To lay down Sorrow's crushing cumbrous load?
To rest where we can hear no sounds of weeping,
Far, far away from life's tear-tracen road?

'No! no! we cannot die

In Death's unrobing room we strip from round us

The garments of mortality and earth,

And, breaking from the embryo state which bound us,

Our day of dying is our day of birth.'

I read the whole piece to her first a month ago, and after that I had to read it so often that at last she had it all in her memory."

"Well," said Willie, "I never saw a faith so simple and so profound as that of those unlettered people."

"They are the babes and sucklings," I replied, "who take their spiritual food without doubt or question at the hands of their Father. You see in them the value of religion. They know where to turn for comfort."

"Indeed they do," said Hettie; "they have responded in all the guileless simplicity of childhood to the tender persuasiveness of Jesus, 'Ye believe in God, believe also in Me.' They know, or as they say, feel, that in the Father's house are many mansions, that Jesus went thither to prepare a place for us, and that when we die He simply comes again to take us unto Himself, that where He is we may be also."

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HE next day we had not much opportunity for conversation, for Hettie was frequently going to the cottage, and had numberless little self-imposed duties to perform, and in most cases she was accompanied and assisted by Mr. Morse. In the evening, however, we found ourselves once more assembled together by the lamplight, prepared for social and improving talk. The event of the previous day had its influence in somewhat saddening us, which Willie, though he was as sad as any one of us, deprecated, on the ground that our religion ought to fill us with a cheerful feeling.

"And so it does, Willie," I said; "we know that those who die in the Lord are blessed, and that produces resignation, if not cheerfulness. But our knowledge does not raise us above the weakness of nature, and we necessarily are saddened by the loss of our friends."

"Why," said Hettic, "even Jesus wept at the loss of Lazarus, though He was about to raise him from the dead. The natural affections are easily touched, and surely we are permitted to indulge them."

"Undoubtedly we are," I answered; "though there is little to mourn over in the removal of Hettie's humble friend. She was one of the lowly ones of the earth, and she is now raised high."

"Every valley shall be exalted,'" said Hettie, "and every mountain and hill shall be brought low '"*

"Why, Willie," I remarked, "Hettie has brought us to the subject of our last conversation, and has very successfully placed us once more 'Amid the Corn.""

"Ah," he said, "I suppose that is an instance in which the correspondences are reversed. The valleys there, The valleys there, I apprehend, denote the lowly virtues, and the mountains the worldly vices."

"Certainly. You are to observe that this was said prophetically concerning what was to happen when our Lord came. It is referred to distinctly by all the four Evangelists in connection with the mission of John the Baptist. It was to be fulfilled by the coming of Messiah. Natural valleys were not exalted, and natural mountains and hills were not brought low at Christ's Advent."

"It is obviously figurative," said Willie, "as Mr. Norton would say; or correspondential, as I suppose you and my little maid here would argue."

"The prophecy was fulfilled by the establishment of that state of things which is described when it is said,

* Isaiah xl. 4.

'He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted the humble and meek.' The mountains in this case denote towering worldly affections, and the valleys lowly Christian virtues. Before Christ came the worldly affections were supreme. He came to put them down, and this He did when He showed that pride, arrogance, and worldly wealth had no relation to His kingdom. Before Jesus came the heavenly affections were subordinated. He raised them into their proper position when He showed that meekness and purity of spirit are of the essence of the kingdom of God. In the fearful degeneracy of the human race everything had become inverted. Man had put down high things and raised up low things. In other words, the valleys had been converted into mountains, and the mountains into valleys. Infernal disorder reigned in society. Jesus came to restore heavenly order. He came to raise up the Virtues which man had put down, and to put down the Vices which man had raised up. In this way every valley was exalted, and every mountain and hill made low."

"Capital!" said Willie, smiling; "I must say again, if the Bible is not written according to your system, your system applies in a very extraordinary way to the Bible."

"The Bible may be described," I replied, "as a kind of cupboard in which innumerable delicacies are stored and preserved by means of a lock containing many and intricate wards. The science of correspondences is the key which opens the door and reveals the delicacies to our sight. I leave you to judge whether the lock and key answer to each other, and whether they are the work of the same Artist."

"To my view," said Hettie, "the science of correspondences is Milton's

for it shows the Bible to be a palace full of glorious sights and untold riches."

"Good," said Willie, "I was afraid your poetry was getting exhausted."

"Never fear," I replied, "her accurate memory is of great use to herself, and it has been a valuable aid to me in my efforts to illustrate the truth respecting this matter. The poets are far-visioned, and they have always been before their age in their annunciation of important principles. It was but the other day, when I was feebly trying to express the fact that natural objects are the outbirth of spiritual forces, that she amazed me by quoting Keats

'Symbols divine, Manifestations of that beauteous life Diffused unseen throughout eternal space.'

I am sure Keats never had any instruction on this subject, and yet with a piercing eye he saw the fact."

"Yes," said Willie, "and told it in perfect language. It is more expressive than Bailey in Festus,' who asks, 'What are ye, orbs? The words of God-the Scriptures of the skies;'

even though he proceeds to say,

"The world is a great poem, and the worlds

The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.' This last idea is fine, but somewhat vague."

"It has not the definiteness and fulness of Keats," I replied. "I am glad, however, that you perceive we are not applying any narrow superstitious principles to the interpretation of the Word of God, but principles discerned and recognised as true by the great spirits of the earth."

"I am perfectly satisfied on that head," he returned. "The principles on which you are proceeding are grand and noble. The only question now in my mind is whether the Bible answers so fully to them as you assume. Jesus was taken by Satan into an exceedingly high mountain, and was there shown all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them. What do you say to that?"

"You do not suppose that Satan carried Jesus bodily into a mountain and spoke orally to Him, as is stated in the narrative?" I asked.

"Of course not. Had I been in the same mood as I was in a few months ago, I should have said that this was one of the absurdities of the evangelical narratives. First, I never did believe in a personal devil; and next, I never could have believed that he could take any one bodily through the air. Now, however, I simply await your exposition."

"It was an inward temptation," I replied. "Jesus was lifted up inwardly. He was raised by Divine permission into a momentary state of worldliness, whence He thought, not about the kingdom of God, but about the kingdom of this world. The mountain, you see, denotes a lofty worldly state into which Jesus was taken by an infernal force, but in which He could not be detained, because He resisted the tempter."

"Yes, I see," said Willie thoughtfully; "your system alters everything."

"Then," said Hettie, "Jesus said, 'If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye shall say to this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea, and it shall be done.' That, of course, refers to some spiritual state which should be removed, not to a material mountain."

"Quite right, my dear. Jesus refers to the great mountain of Evil, the lofty pretensions of Self-love, which is the destroying mountain spoken of in Jeremiah (li. 25), where the Lord says of Babylon, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, which destroyest the whole earth.' Self-love, high and mighty in the worldly soul, is the power that destroys the whole mind-the whole man-symbolically, the whole earth. To this is referrible every murder, every robbery, every deed of violence, every lie. If we have faith as a grain of mustard-seed-which is a vital faith, a growing faith-we should be able to hurl down the towering mass of selfishness in our spirits, and cast it into the sea."

"Into the sea," repeated Willie. "Ah," he added after a moment's pause, "I understand. The sea also has its correspondence."

"Yes," said Hettie; "for is it not part of the sphere?"

"We must consider the symbolism of the sea,” I returned; "but I think during the last three days we have advanced with more than sufficient rapidity, and we will defer that for the present."

We then fell insensibly into further conversation on the subject of death and of the reunion of friends, a point which I endeavoured to enforce from a variety of considerations, and to which Willie listened with awakened interest. When I mentioned the certainty of the aged people of the cottage joining their daughter, Hettie aided me with her memory overflowing with the honey of the poets, and concluded by reading Longfellow's touching verses entitled "Resignation," in which he not only teaches that friends will meet and recognise, but that in those regions the spirit grows and expands—

"Not as a child shall we again behold her;
For when with raptures wild

In our embraces we again enfold her
She will not be a child,

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"But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace;

And beautiful with all the soul's expansion Shall we behold her face."

LEAVES.

HE continual changing of the seasons, to those sensible of the beauties of creation, inspires the mind with thoughts which are calculated to impart feelings of the deepest gratitude and purest delight. More especially is this the case when it is discovered that there exists a corresponding relation between the mental and physical worlds-between the world of mind and the world of matter. We are assured, and it may be intellectually perceived, that "the whole world, from first to last, from beginnings to ultimates, is full of representatives and types of man's regeneration." The poets frequently call our attention to the fact that man's life is Thomson beautifully says— portrayed in the seasons.

See here thy pictured life! Pass some few years,
Thy flowering spring, thy summer's ardent strength,
Thy sober autumn fading into age,

And pale concluding winter comes at last
And shuts the scene.'

People differ in their estimation of the seasons as in other things. Some preferring one season, some another. More, perhaps, are disposed to hold the spring in the highest regard; but this may be because in the springtime their minds are filled with anticipations of the beauty of the coming summer. The early autumn is frequently a time of utmost splendour and loveliness. What can equal the glory and the beauty of a fine autumn day? or an autumnal evening when the sun is sinking apparently to his rest, and purpling the western sky with gorgeous scenery, giving

"Promise of a goodly day to-morrow."

But too often to secure perfect enjoyment we allow in this season the foot of winter, with its leaden tread, to beat its "music out of tune." As autumn rolls on, however, casting the "sere and yellow" leaves about our feet, mournful thoughts will arise. The words of the hymn are adopted—

"The leaves around us falling

Are preaching of decay.”

Now it is upon these leaves we desire to offer a few reflections. Doubtless the leaves during the last month have pressed themselves upon your notice. Brown and sere, scattered here and there, and almost everywhere. They have mottled beneath your footstep. Driven hither and thither by the restless wind. Flying before you and around you as if impelled by some invisible spirit. At this season of the year we must perforce mark the leaves. Now if all things are to be regarded as typical of man, of course the leaves must in their way be typical also. In the Sacred Scripture we know that a tree is employed to denote man himself. Hence the prophet says that good men are the "trees of the Lord." They are the "trees of righteousness of the planting of the Lord." days of a tree, so are the days of My people." Because trees have this meaning are they called upon to "praise the Lord," "to rejoice," to "clap their hands." In the first Psalm there is that beautiful and oft-quoted verse, which declares that the man who delights in the law of the Lord "shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of | water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season: his leaf

"As the