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casion to guess; it is evidently ription of the judgment of So. Now observe the figures, they to move. How earnestly that e left appears to plead! the enance of the other indicates vity of heart.

rriot.-O, a sword is brought re the king; now it is plain gh. atsism elusasigot vieni melia.-By the action of the two en you may almost hear him say, vide the living child."See how almost animate figure stretches h its hands; what a countenance! gh silent, the lips move, and its s speak! Do look, Mamma! and

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you will think you hear her trem lous voice exclaim, "O, my lord, gi her the living child, and in now slay it!" while the other by its ha dened countenance appears to quiesce with the stern command. T king observing the earnest supplia immediately says, "Give her the liv child." She clasps it eagerly to breast, and her whole appearance justly represents maternal affecti that it verifies the judgment of lomon, "She is the mother thereo Mrs. N.-Very well, Amelia; have been engaged, however! do you really suppose that the tomaton could justly describe a ther's feelings? No, Amelia! the

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of the king was sure to produce motion in the mother's breast, none could so justly imitate as eive his discerning mind. Mini -However correct your obserMadam, yet I must acknowmy obligation to Miss Neville er description of the scene; on I generally observe, that the om with which Solomon was faed, not only presents a striking nce of answer to prayer, but ds great encouragement to all, cially to those in early life, to e their requests known to God; whosoever attends to the divine ction, "ASK," will in due time erience the fulfilment of the de

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Mrs. N.-I hope, Sir, neither daughters or myself will fail to prove your observation to our sonal advantage. Will you now ob them with your account of the tem Ex. The temple of Solomon built on the side of Mount Sion, ca Moriah, on a very hard lime-st rock, encompassed by a frightful cipice. To make this building and secure, it was found necessar begin the foundation at the bo of the Mount; so that the sides about six hundred and eight feet and the stones were not only of largest size, but hard and firm en

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re all weathers, and be proof the worm. Besides this, they o mortised into one another, wedged into the rock, that the h and curiosity of the basis t less admirable than the sucture, and the one was every nswerable to the other. The e did not consist of one single e, but of several courts or buildand the whole together made an square of one thousand four ed and sixty feet long on each exactly fronting the east, west, and south. The ground plot which the temple was built was are of twenty-five thousand feet. s encompassed with a wall of the

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