Classical Theology.

mand reputation and esteem ; but it is the inward embellishment of the mind and of the heart . Virtue is wisdom , that is , Minerva is both . Her glory cannot fade . Clothed with tattered garments , her beauty is not less shining than when arrayed with purple and fine linen . She does not grow old ; she is as beautiful in age as in youth . Her majesty , her grace , her loveliness—she herself—are seen as great

in a cottage as in a castle ; as great seated in a cart as in a carriage —as great with a sickle in her- hand , as with a sceptre . In the words of the holy Proverbs— " She is more precious than rubies ; and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her . Length of days is in her right hand , and in her left hand riches and honour . Her ways are the ways of pleasantness , and all hei * paths are peace . She is- a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her , and happy is every one that retaineth her , "

THE POETIVY . on ? GEOLOCY . —The following magnificent passage occvus in a chapter on the trappeau and igneous rocks , in the " Sketch Book of Popular Geology , " by the late Hugh Miller , just published . " Vast beds of trappeau rock , —greenstone and columnar basalt , and amygdaloidal porphyry , have been Avedged from beneath , as molten injections , between the old sedimentary strata ; vast ivaves of translation have come rolling outwards from that disturbed centre . And noiv , for clay after

day has there been a succession of earthquake shocks , that , as the plutonic paroxysm increases in intensity , become stronger and more frequent , and the mountain Avaves roll outwards in ever widening circles , to rise and fall in distant and solitary seas , or to break in long lines of foam on nameless islands unknown to the geographer . And over the roar of-Avaves or the rush of tides we may hear the growling * of a subterranean thunder , that noiv flies away in low deep mutterings , and now , ere some fresh earthquake shock tempests the seabelloiA'S Avidelfrom the abyss . The

, y billows fall back in boiling . eddies ; the solid strata are upheaved into a flat dome , crusted with corals and shells ; it cracks , it severs , a dark gulf yawns suddenly in tho midst ; a dense strongly variegated cloud of mingled smoke and steam arises black as midnight in its central volumes , but chequered , whore the boiling waves hiss at its edge , ivith Avreaths of Avhite ; and anon , with the noise of many waters , a broad sheet of flame rushes upwards a thousand fathoms into the sky . Vast masses of molten rook , that gloiv red amid even the light of clay , are hurled into

the air , and then , ivith hollow sound , fall back into the chasm , or , descending hissing amid the vexed waters , fling high the hot spray , and scud the cross circlets of wave ivhich they raise athwart the heavings of the huger billows propelled from tiie disturbed centre within . The crater rises as tho thick showers of ashes descend ; arrcl amid the rending of rocks , the roaring of flames , the dashing of waves , the hissings of submerged lava , and the hollow grumblings of tho abyss , the darkness of the starless niht descends upon tiie deep . Anonaud we are startled bthe

g , y shook of yet another and more terrible earthquake ; yet another column of flame rushes into tho sky , casting a lurid illumination on the thick rolling reek and the jiitchy heaving . ? of tire ivave ^ -seen but for a moment , ive mark the silvery glitter- of scales , for there is a shoal of dead fish floating past ; and as the coruscations of an electric lightning darts in a thousand fiery tongues from the cloud , some startled monster of the cleep bellows in terror from the dark sea beyond .