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 may be found, as are principled in true religion. The religion of the "remnant" will be faith to enlighten, and love to warm, like the blending radiance and heat of the solar beam, that spread life and beauty wherever they fall; the religion in which works, morals, and righteousness are made equally essential, and without which there can be nothing really or permanently blessed,

HROUGHOUT the Sacred Scripture, birds will be found to have a correspondence to the thought or intellectual principle. The following, among many, are instances: "He shall awake at the voice of a bird." "O, that I had wings like a dove, then would I fly away, and be at rest!" "Though thou hast lain among the pots, yet shall thou be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold." In all these instances birds represent the understanding or intellect. Now, if a bird has correspondence with the understanding or intellectual principle, then the strongest, most powerful, and keen-sighted among birds must represent, in the highest sense, the Supreme Intelligence, or the Lord, with respect to His Wisdom.

The eagle is, from its very nature, fitted to represent the highest intelligence. Its power of flight exceeds that of other birds. Its dwelling-place is in the highest