erected in Upper Egypt, perhaps as long ago as the Pyramids, but recently removed, and now set up in Paris. 18, An ancient aqueduct at Segovia, in Spain. The ancients were accustomed to carry water across valleys, through canals raised on lofty arches, and these structures were called aqueducts; that at Segovia is one of the most perfect now remaining. 19, The head of the Sphinx, a fabulous being worshipped in Egypt, represented with the head of a woman and the body of a lion.

From the figures in the engraving, you will be able to form a pretty correct notion of the height of each of these buildings, when you are informed that the height of the Pyramid, number 1, is five hundred and fourteen feet, and that of the Sphinx, number 19, about thirty-three feet.

THE CHURCHES OF ST. PETER AND

ST. PAUL.

SOME of these buildings just mentioned are professedly erected for the worship of God, and the two most magnificent are here represented more distinctly, namely, St. Peter's in Rome, and St. Paul's in London. Considered merely as structures raised by man, they are very splendid and beautiful, and worthy of admiration; but as many very wrong notions are entertained on such subjects, I think it right to inform you that the true worship of God has nothing necessarily to do, in our days, with lofty domes, or marble pillars, or delicate sculpture, or painted windows, whatever may have been the case in ancient times, before the Lord

THE CHURCHES OF ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL.

Jesus Christ came. We are taught in the New Testament, that "God is not worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed anything:" the worship which he seeks, is the drawing near him in the heart, through the blood of his dear Son; and this can be done as well in a barn, or in the field, or in the street, as in the finest house. We speak of this, because it is important: it is of little value to know all science and learning, if you have mistaken thoughts of God, and of what is real and true worship: "God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth." These magnificent buildings, then, are most appropriately considered merely as wonderful' monuments of the skill and power, and perhaps the pride, of man. Some of the temples that the foolish heathens built to the false gods, the stocks and stones that they worshipped, were very astonishing for size and splendour; the temple of Diana, at Ephesus, was considered one of the wonders of the world.