"_Never man spake like this man_."
"From everything our Saviour saw,
Lessons of wisdom He would draw;
The clouds, the colours in the sky;
The gently breeze that whispers by;
The fields, all white with waving corn;
The lilies that the vale adorn;
The reed that trembles in the wind;
The tree where none its fruit can find;
The sliding sand, the flinty rock,
That bears unmoved the tempest's shock;
The thorns that on the earth abound;
The tender grass that clothes the ground;
The little birds that fly in air;
The sheep that need the shepherd's care;
The pearls that deep in ocean lie;
The gold that charms the miser's eye:
All from His lips some truth proclaim,
Or learn to tell their Maker's name."
CAROLINE FRY.
THE FIFTH DAY.
"FOWL OF THE AIR, AND FISH OF THE SEA."
"_And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much.... He spake
also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes._"--I
KINGS iv. 29-33.
"_The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth
through the paths of the seas._"--PSALM viii. 8.
We have already seen that it was on the FIFTH DAY that the two great
oceans--the world of air above, and the world of water below--were peopled
with inhabitants; that "God saw that it was good," and that all these happy
living things began their life blessed by Him who gave it.
I wonder whether it will surprise you to hear that in some respects the
inhabitants of these two worlds are alike.
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