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��have been canonized by the Papal church. The service was in French — the language of the Savoyards — and the congregation consisted of guides, rustic husbandmen, mountaineers from their chalets, the wom- en and children of the hamlet, and some European and American travellers from the three inns of Chamouny.

To the overwhelming sublimity of that mountain valley we bade adieu on the

��morning of Monday, September 23, and proceeded by the vehicle known as the char-a-banc, to Sallanches,and thence by coach, known as tv the diligence," to Gene- va, reaching that beautifully located city at 3 P. M. It was really a relief to pass from the awful grandeur around Cha- mounv, and be once more within the "■Hotel of the Mountains," facing the blue, dancing, transparent river Rhone.

��PER NOCTEM AD LUCEM.

��[isaiah, l:x.]

The night is dismal, dreary; There shines no star nor moon. I watch and wait, alone, And hear the wind's sad moan, With heavy heart and weary — O light, O rest, come soon !

��All cheerless came the morning, 'Mid cold, dark clouds, and rain, Each dripping, shivering tree Seems comfortless like me, Who hoped that with the dawning My peace would come again.

��Beneath a sky all glowing

With golden sunset light,

I sit in quiet, blest

Wjth God's own love and rest;

Believing now, yea knowing,

He leads to light through night.

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