"Expression" as before, but more vivid.

Extract from Genesis, XLIV.

V. 13. “Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city. 14. And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, (for he was yet there :) and they fell before him on the ground. 15. And Joseph said unto them, 'What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?' 16. And Judah said, 'What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is found.' 17. And he said, ‘God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.' 18. Then Judah came near unto him, and said, ‘O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord's ears; and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh. 19. My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother? 20. And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him. 21. And thou saidst unto thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon him. 22. And we said unto my lord, 'The lad cannot leave his father: for if he should leave his father, his father would die.' 23. And thou saidst unto thy servants, 'Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.' 24. And it came to pass, when we came up unto thy servant my father, we told him the words of my lord. 25. And our father said, ' Go again, and buy us a little food.' 26. And we said, ' We cannot go down : if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down; for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest

brother be with us.' 27. and thy servant my father said unto us, ' Ye know that my wife bare me two sons: 28. And the one went out from me, and I said, ‘Surely he is torn in pieces;' and I saw him not since: 29. And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.' 30' Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; (seeing that his life is bound up in the lad's life;) 31. It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave. 32. For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father; saying, "If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.' 33. Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. 34. For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.'

“Hast thou, with weeping eyes, committed to the grave the child of thy affections, the virtuous friend of thy youth, or the tender partner, whose pious attachment lightened the load of life? Behold they are not dead. Thou knowest that they live in a better region, with their Saviour and their God; that still thou holdest thy place in their remembrance; and that thou shalt soon meet them again to part no more. Dost thou look forward with trembling to the days of darkness that are to fall on thyself, when thou shalt lie on the bed of sickness, when thy pulse shall have become low, when the cold damps have gathered on thy brow, and the mournful looks of

thy attendants have told thee that the hour of thy departure has come? To the mere natural man this scene is

awful and alarming; but if thou art a Christian, — if thou knowest and obeyest the truth, thou needest fear no evil. The shadows which hang over the valley of death shall retire at thy approach; and thou shalt see beyond it the spirits of the just, and an innumerable company of angels, the future companions of thy bliss, bending from their thrones to cheer thy departing soul, and to welcome thee into everlasting habitations."

Penitence and Contrition.

"Pure Tone," "Subdued" Force, "Median" and "Vanishing Stress,” “High" Pitch, Prevalent "Semitone," "Slowest Movement," Long Pauses, Earnest Emphasis.

Hymn.- Mrs. Steele.

“O Thou, whose tender mercy hears
Contrition's humble sigh;

Whose hand indulgent wipes the tears
From sorrow's weeping eye;-

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See, Lord, before thy throne of grace,

A wretched wanderer mourn :

Hast thou not bid me seek thy face?
Hast thou not said —‘Return?'

"And shall my guilty fears prevail
To drive me from thy feet?
Oh! let not this dear refuge fail,

This only safe retreat.

"Absent from thee, my Guide! my light!
Without one cheering ray,

Through dangers, fears, and gloomy night,
How desolate my way!

"Oh! shine on this benighted heart,

With beams of mercy shine!

And let thy healing voice impart

A taste of joy divine."

Regret, Repentance, and Shame.

"Aspirated Orotund Quality,” “Suppressed" Force, “Vanishing Stress," " "Low" Pitch, Prevalent "Falling Inflection," "Slow Movement," Long Pauses, Strong Emphasis.

Adam's Confusion, on awakening to the sense of Guilt.

"How shall I behold the face,

Henceforth, of God or angel, erst with joy

And rapture so oft beheld? Those heavenly shapes
Will dazzle now this earthly with their blaze
Insufferably bright. Oh! might I here
In solitude live savage, in some glade

Obscured, where highest woods, impenetrable
To star or sun light, spread their umbrage broad
And brown as evening. Cover me ye pines,
Ye cedars, with innumerable boughs
Hide me, where I may never see them more!"

"Expression," as in the preceding example.

Job's Confession. XLII. CHAP.

V. 2. "I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. 3. Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. 4. Hear, I beseech thee; and I will speak: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. 5. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee: 6. Wherefore I abhor my. self, and repent in dust and ashes."

Stanzas.-Watts.

"Oh! wash my soul from every sin,
And make my guilty conscience clean;
Here, on my heart, the burden lies,

And past offences pain mine eyes.

"My lips, with shame, my sins confess,
Against thy law—against thy grace:
Lord, should thy judgment grow severe,
I am condemned, but thou art clear."

Remorse, Self-reproach, Horror, and Despair.

"Aspirated Pectoral Quality,” “Vanishing Stress," "Low" Pitch, Prevalent "Falling Inflection," "Slowest Movement," Long Pauses, Strong Emphasis.

Adam's Emotions, in Retrospection and Anticipation.-- Milton.

But say

That death be not one stroke, as I supposed,

Bereaving sense, but endless misery

From this day onward, which I feel begun
Both in me, and without me, and so last
To perpetuity; -ay me! that fear

Comes thundering back with dreadful revolution
On my defenceless head: both Death and I
Am found eternal, and incorporate both;
Not I on my part single, in me all

Posterity stands cursed: -fair patrimony

That I must leave ye, sons! Oh! were I able
To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!

So disinherited how would ye bless

Me, now your curse! Ah! why should all mankind
For one man's fault thus guiltless be condemned,
If guiltless? But from me what can proceed,
But all corrupt, both mind and will depraved,
Not to do only, but to will the same

With me? How can they then acquitted stand
In sight of God? Him, after all disputes,
Forced, I absolve: all my evasions vain,

And reasoning, though through mazes, lead me still
But to my own conviction: first and last
On me, me only, as the source and spring
Of all corruption, all the blame lights due;