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Rh tude among the different congregations, established by those devoted servants of the cross, in that inclement clime.

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.

"Antoninus Pius, from his desire to search into the least differences, was called 'cumini sector,'—the carver of cummin-seeds."—Fuller's Holy State.

  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, 