S4 “NOT TILE LEAST OF NATURE'S MIRACLES !”

mind notched the twenty-four hours on its calen-
dar as before. Well might Linneus exclaim, with
pious rapture, as he gazed upon this—‘“‘ not the
least of Nature’s miracles”’—‘“‘O Lord, how won-
derful are Thy works!” Surely it is no wonder
that this “ land of mysteries,” with all its severity
and gloom, its pictures of darkness and death,
should exert, as we are told it does, a strange
secret power of attraction, evoked by ‘the very
mystic scene itself, which the midnight sun illu-
mines, and around which the mountain ridges keep
watch, while in winter the northern lights flame
over the snow-clad earth.” It may well remind
the poor peasant that ‘“ God’s Spirit rests upon the
northern land” no less than on the southern, and
symbolise to Christian faith and hope that blessed
‘land of pure delight” where ‘the sun shall no
more go down,” for the Lord shall be unto them
can everiasting light.”