"I have been very jealous for thy cause, Lord God of Hosts! for men make void thy laws;

Thy people have thrown down thine altars, slain

Thy prophets,-I, and I alone, remain; My life with reckless vengeance they pursue; And what can I against a nation do?"

"My day of vengeance is at hand; the

year

Of my redeemed quickly draweth near: Go thou,-anoint two kings,-and, in thy place,

A prophet to stand up before my face; Then he who 'scapes the Syrian's sword shall fall

By his, whom to Samaria's throne I call; And he who 'scapes from Jehu in that day, Him shall the judgments of Elisha slay. Yet hath a remnant been reserved by me, Seven thousand souls, who never bow'd the knee

To Baal's image, nor have kiss'd his shrine: These are my jewels, and they shall be mine,

When to the world my righteousness is shown,

And root and branch, idolatry o'erthrown."

"So be it, God of truth, yet why delay? With thee a thousand years are as a day; Oh! crown thy people's hopes, dispel their fears,

And be to-day with thee a thousand years; Cut short the evil, bring the blessed time; Avenge thine own elect, from clime to

clime;

Let not an idol in thy path be spared,

TRANSLATION OF ELIJAH.

2 Kings ii. 11, 12.

EDMESTON.

By Judah's vales and Olive-glades,
Where Eastern fruits entwine;
Her bowers of rose and palm-tree shades
Her fields of corn and wine;
ELIJAH and ELISHA pass'd,
And well they knew, it was the last,
The last dear hour to friendship given,
Before the fire-car and the blast,

Should bear the prophet up to heaven.

How fondly then ELISHA hung

On all his aged master spoke! How dear each word, that from his tongue, Like dying farewell broke! Friendship's a sun, that ever seems Brightest, in its departing beams, And never to the full we feel

The depth, and warmth, and force of love, Till death comes in, the gem to steal,

And those so dear have pass'd above;
Then we discover by the smart
How they entwined around the heart?

They went along, and o'er their head,

High in the fields of air;
Appeared a beauteous cloud of red,
And fast against the breeze it fled,

It seemed a SERAPH fair;
One of those Spirits who assume,

The lurid flame in all its forms,
To guard, to punish, to consume,
To wield the lightning-sword of storms.

To earth it came
That beauteous flame,

shared!

Nor yet seven thousand only worship Thee, Make every tongue confess, bow every knee;

Its mantle round The prophet wound,

Son;

One Lord through all the earth, his name

be one!

As we to-day Perceive the ray

Of glory, when a Christian dies!

To pass to those bright regions thus ;

done!"

God;

And he shall be with thee when fears are

abroad:

Forth in banded fury run, Braving, with defiance loud,

God, and his anointed Son!