tude among the different congregations, established by those devoted servants of the cross, in that inclement clime.
13 "The Ethiop forehead, and the name of slave."
More than 40,000 of the converts, connected with the 214 mission stations, maintained by the United Brethren, in different parts of the globe, are either dwellers in Africa, or slaves in the West India islands.
14 "And in the carving of our cummin-seeds."
"Antoninus Pius, from his desire to search into the least differences, was called 'cumini sector,'—the carver of cummin-seeds."—Fuller's Holy State.
NIAGARA.
Flow on forever, in thy glorious robe
Of terror and of beauty.—Yea, flow on
Unfathom'd and resistless.—God hath set
His rainbow on thy forehead: and the cloud
Mantled around thy feet.—And he doth give
Thy voice of thunder, power to speak of Him
Eternally,—bidding the lip of man
Keep silence,—and upon thy rocky altar pour
Incense of awe-struck praise.
Ah! who can dare
To lift the insect-trump of earthly hope,
Or love, or sorrow,—'mid the peal sublime
Of thy tremendous hymn? Even Ocean shrinks
Back from thy brotherhood: and all his waves
Retire abash'd. For he doth sometimes seem
To sleep like a spent laborer,—and recall
His wearied billows from their vexing play
And lull them to a cradle calm:—but thou,
With everlasting, undecaying tide,
