love to God.

poor, which is impressed on the doctrines of the New Testament with greater distinctness than on those of the Old. Besides the general commands to love our poorer neighbor, we are especially "to do good to them who are of the household of faith." So much is this love to the disciples of Christ inculcated in the writings of the evangelists and apostles, that we are told we ought to "lay down our lives for the brethren." It is even made a test of our "Whoso hath this world's good," saith St. John, "and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?" The contributions for the poor saints were not forgotten by the apostle Paul and the early Christians ; and while it is the duty of Christians to do good to the bodies and to the souls of all, to stretch out the willing hand to the poor and needy, the poor of God's adopted family should be the especial objects of their love and care.

From Christ, the Lord, shall they obtain
Like sympathy and love again.

SECTION XII.

SHE IS NOT AFRAID OF THE SNOW FOR HER HOUSEHOLD; FOR ALL

HER HOUSEHOLD ARE CLOTHED WITH SCARLET.

o accustomed are we to hear of the serene skies and genial warmth of the climate of Palestine, that we are, in our thoughts, apt to invest that interesting land with a perpetual sunshine.

The flowery heights of the fragrant Carmel; the magnificent and enduring vegetation of Lebanon; the smiling plains of the still lovely and verdant Sharon; the grapes of Eshcol, these are the features of the landscape most familiar to our mind. Although the cold of winter is not so severe as in some other parts of Syria, still it is scarcely less than that experienced in our own country. The autumnal shower is the early rain, for which the "husbandman long waited," that he might sow his seed; and in December, the first winter month, the rain falls in torrents, and the snow covers the plains occasion

ally, and lies on the elevated mountains long after spring has made considerable advance; while hoarfrost scatters its diamonds, or a mist, like that of our northern climates, obscures the face of nature.

Owing to the great inequalities of surface in the Holy Land, there are some sheltered and favored spots which are free from the cold of winter. Here the season is soft and mild, snow is seldom seen on the plains, and the orange-tree and the citron and the goodly palm contrast with the white summits and glittering icicles of Lebanon. On the mountains the snow is peculiarly deep from December, and scarcely decreases before the month of July. Dr. E. D. Clarke, speaking of one of the hills which forms a part of the majestic Lebanon, says: "The snow entirely covers the upper part of it; not lying in patches, as I have seen it, during summer, upon the tops of very elevated mountains,for instance, that of Nevis in Scotland; but investing all the higher part with that perfect white and smooth velvet-like appearance which snow only exhibits when it is very deep; a striking spectacle in such a climate, where the. beholder, seeking pro