ARTICULATION. Indulged'st, waft'st, tempted'st, loved'st. Thou indulged'st the appetite. O wind! that waft'st us o'er the main. Thou tempted'st him. Thou loved'st him fondly. Thou credited'st his story. The lists are open. The light dazzl'd his eyes. They were puzzl'd by the intricacies of the path. In vain thou muzzl'd'st the fierce beast. LESSON LXXVIII. ARTICULATE clearly all the consonants in the following and similar words in this lesson: stability, prosperity, interested, principles, friend, suspect, comprehends, fabric, concerns, itself, improvements, perpetrator, extinction, describe, unprotected, trample, restraints. 1. Rec-og-ni'-tion, n. acknowledgment. 2. Fab'-ric, n. any system composed of connected parts. E-ra'-sed, p. blotted out. [a crime. 3. Per'-pe-tra-tor, n. one that commits Ex-tinc'-tion, n. a putting an end to. 4. Fer'-til-ize, v. to make fruitful. RELIGION THE ONLY BASIS OF SOCIETY. 1. RELIGION is a social concern; for it operates powerfully on society, contributing, in various ways, to its stability and prosperity. Religion is not merely a private affair; the community is deeply interested in its diffusion; for it is the best support of the virtues and principles, on which the social order rests. Pure and undefiled religion is, to do good; and it follows, very plainly, that, if God be the Author and Friend of society, then, the recognition of him must enforce all social duty, and enlightened piety must give its whole strength to public order. 2. Few men suspect, perhaps no man comprehends, the extent of the support given by religion to every virtue. No man, perhaps, is aware, how much our moral and social sentiments are fed from this fountain; how powerless conscience would become, + without the belief of a God; how palsied would be human benevolence, were there not the sense of a higher benevolence to quicken and sustain it; how suddenly the whole social fabric would quake, and with what a fearful crash it would sink into hopeless ruin, were the ideas of a supreme Being, of accountableness, and of a future life, to be utterly erased from every mind. 3. And, let men thoroughly believe that they are the work and sport of chance; that no superior intelligence concerns itself with human affairs; that all their improvements perish forever at death; that the weak have no guardian, and the injured no avenger; that there is no recompense for sacrifices to uprightness and the public good; that an oath is unheard in heaven; that secret crimes have no witness but the perpetrator; that human existence has no purpose, and human virtue no unfailing friend; that this brief life is every thing to us, and death is total, everlasting extinction; once let them thoroughly abandon religion, and who can conceive or describe the extent of the desolation which would follow! 4. We hope, perhaps, that human laws and natural sympathy would hold society together. As reasonably might we believe, that were the sun quenched in the heavens, our torches would illuminate, and our fires quicken and fertilize the creation. What is there in human nature to awaken respect and tenderness, if man is the unprotected insect of a day? And what is he more, if atheism be true? 5. Erase all thought and fear of God from a community, and selfishness and sensuality would absorb the whole man. Appetite, knowing no restraint, and suffering, having no solace or hope, would trample in scorn on the restraints of human laws. Virtue, duty, principle, would be mocked and spurned as unmeaning sounds. A sordid self-interest would supplant every feeling; and man would become, in fact, what the theory of atheism declares him to be, a companion for brutes. + CHANNING. QUESTIONS.—What is the operation of religion upon society? What would be the effect of the removal of religion, upon the whole fabric of virtue? Why would not human laws and sympathies hold society together? Point out all the emphatic words in this lesson. In the first sentence of the 4th paragraph, what is the subject of the verb "hope?" What is its object? What two nominatives form the subject of the verb "hold?" What is the object of that verb? In what mode and tense is "would hold?" What are "together" and "perhaps?" What kind of a verb may "hold together" be called? See Analytical Grammar, p. 101, § 310. LESSON LXXIX. REMARK.-Be careful to give a full sound to the vowels. The names of the Deity are seldom pronounced with that full and solemn sound that is proper. Lud and Law-ard, and Gud and Gawd, are too frequently used, instead of the proper sounds. If the pupil can learn to speak the three words, O-Lord-God, properly, it will be worth no little attention. Every pupil ought to be exercised on these words till they are pronounced properly, and in a full and solemn tone. PRONOUNCE Correctly.-Mer-cy, not mus-sy: nei-ther, or nei-ther: Is-ra-el, not Is-r'el: si-lence, not si-lunce. 4. The Lord hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; He will bless the house of Israel: 5 He will bless the house of Aaron: He will bless them that fear the Lord, The Lord shall increase you more and more, You and your children. Ye are blessed of the Lord Which made heaven and earth. The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord's: Neither any that go down into silence. But we will bless the Lord From this time forth and for evermore: Praise the Lord! BIBLE. QUESTIONS. - What is the general sentiment intended to be inspired by this Psalm? What is the contrast made between the true God, and the idols of the heathen? Point out the emphatic words in the 1st paragraph. Explain the inflections in the 2nd paragraph, and point out the emphatic words. What words in these two paragraphs admit the circumflex? Which words receive a relative emphasis? In the 5th paragraph, what instances are there of relative emphasis ? In the 3rd paragraph, for what does the pronoun "their" stand in each instance where it is used? Will you name all the verbs in this lesson that are in the imperative mode. In the first line of the 5th paragraph, parse "Lord's." In the fourth line of the same paragraph, parse "any." ARTICULATION. Throne, throng'd, thrush, thorough, through. The throne was throng'd with suppliants. The thrush and the oriole seem'd to vie in song. Ile is thorough through all. Springing, swinging, clinging, the ape jumps from branch to branch. The subjects were appropriate to the circumstances. Reflection is desirable under difficult exigencies. A catapult is an engine for throwing stones. A cataplasm is a soft poultice. Drifting, and almost drown'd, he drank the briny wave. From star to star the livid lightnings flash. LESSON LXXX. - PRONOUNCE Correctly and ARTICULATE distinctly. Which, not wich: shad-ow, not shad-der: where, not were: haunt, not haunt; when, not wen; east-ward, not east-ud; dis-cov-er-est, not dis-cov-ust; what, not wat; tor-tur'd not tort-er❜d. 1. ON the fifth day of the moon, which, according to the cus tom of my forefathers, I always kept holy, after having washed myself, and offered up my morning devotions, I ascended the high hills of Bagdad, in order to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and, passing from one thought to another, "Surely," said I, 66 Iman is but a shadow, and life a dream." 2. While I was thus musing, I cast my eyes toward the summit of a rock, that was not far from me, where I discovered one, in the habit of a shepherd, with a musical instrument in his hand. As I looked upon him, he applied it to his lips, and began to play upon it. The sound of it was exceeding sweet, and wrought into a variety of tunes, that were inexpressibly melodious, and altogether different from any thing I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs, that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in paradise, to wear out the impressions of the last agonies, and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place. 3. My heart melted away in secret raptures. I had been often told that the rock before me was the haunt of a Genius; and that several had been entertained with music, who had passed by |