The Fairy Godmothers. — 11
{trong you will fay: but I am fpeaking, befides

thefe, of the winds called hurricanes that arife in
the Weft Indian Iflands, and in other places
in the world. ‘Thefe dreadful hurricanes have
at times done as much mifchief as earthquakes
and lightning. ‘They tear down the ftrongeft
trees, overthrow the firmeft houfes and fpread
ruin and defolation around, and yet this terrible
power, fo tremendous, and againft which the
clevereft contrivances can provide no defence, is
as invifible as the great Maker of Heaven and
Earth. How unbelieving many people would
look if you told them of a dreadful creature that
was coming to the world, which could be heard
to roar, be felt to knock dents every thing in its
path—men, women and children, houfes, churches,
towers, caftles, cities, and trees the moft firmly
rooted—and yet which you could never catch the
fainteft glimpfe of, for it was always invifible, even
when it roared the loudeft! As invifible then, as
when in its mildeft moods, it, as it were, purred
foftly over the country like a cat. How the good
people would laugh, and tell you you were very
filly to believe in fuch a thing. Yet I think this
is not at all an incorrect defcription of the great
invifible Power WIND. Now the leffon we may
learn from this is to be humble-minded ; for fince
we live in the conftant prefence of a Power we
cannot fee, we ought to feel it is equally poffible
other Powers may exift of which our other fenfes
cannot take cognizance. There is an old proverb