...mind. Th us, the corn -covered valleys are said ' to shout and sing,' — ' the wilderness is said to be glad and the desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose.' ' The mountains saw thee and they trembled ; the overflowing of the waters passed by, the deep uttered...

...arise, in a spot where nothing was formerly beheld but a vast desert or a putrid marsh; and can make " the wilderness and the solitary place to be glad, and the desert to bud and blossom as the rose." He can communicate his thoughts and sentiments in a few hours, to ten...

...humbler scale ; and here, as at Cliefden, I could not but render due honour to the man who " had caused the wilderness and the solitary place to be glad,...and the desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose."* To the tourist and * Isaiah, xxxv. 1. the angler this vale will afford a rich treat. The scenery as...

...if her people will only have it so, under the blessing of Him who " hath caused the wilderness and solitary place to be glad, and the desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose." It would have been no easy thing, a few years ago, to have pointed out any two countries upon the face...

...if her people will only have it so, under the blessing of Him who " hath caused the wilderness and solitary place to be glad, and the desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose." It would have been no easy thing, a few years ago, to have pointed out any two countries upon the face...

...pagodas and countless idols," and by whose instrumentality, in the lapse of a few years, God shall make " the wilderness and the solitary place to be glad,...and the desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose." * Judson Offering. One thing there was connected with the departure of this heroic band of Mission-...

...Christ." 0 happy time ! Glorious period ! Already in the " wilderness and solitary place beginning to be glad, and the desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose." Already does infidelity begin to hide its deformed head, and religion to assume its proper place among...

...the wastes of superstition and idolatry, was a fountain of living water, gushing out in the desert, causing the wilderness and the solitary place to be...and the desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose. Thus it will be again if the spirit of primitive piety returns once more to the church, and a new Pentecost...

...passions that enslave the soul — lust, or envy or malice? Can these change the lion into the lamb, cause the wilderness and the solitary place to be glad, and the desert to rejoice and blossom as the rose ? Can they bring in the latter-day glory of the church, cause the stone that was cut out of the mountain...

...early days of the republic, they are to be persuaded to plant there the Rose of Sharon, and to make the wilderness and the solitary place to be glad, and the desert to blossom as the rose. And that young man who makes choice of a profession, is to make this one of the...