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A floating cloud, like a man's hand in fize;

It blackens and expands throughout the night,

The moon and all the stars are hid from fight;

The vault of heaven is fpread with fable clouds,

Unufual darkness all the concave fhrouds,

Then on the Earth defcends a mighty rain,

The fpreading inundation flows the plain.

The ftorm fubfides, the fkies from clouds are clear'd,

One univerial voice of joy is heard, All vegetation feels a newborn spring, The beasts rejoice, the birds with tranfport fing,

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murmuring ftreams again are heard to roar,

And the big rivers dafh against the fhore. Health and returning plenty cheer the land,

And watch the symptoms of the ap- Such were the wonders of Jehovah's proaching rain.

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Donations to the Miffionary Society of Connecticut, in the Month of May.

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CONCLUSION.

A SECOND volume of this Magazine is now com

pleted. The work was originally undertaken with a view of promoting two important objects to diffeminate religious knowledge, and to raise money for the fupport of miffions to the new fettlements and among the Indian tribes. The number of fubfcribers to this work has far exceeded the most fanguine expectation of the Editors; and confequently the profits to the Miffionary Society have been more than was anticipated. How far the other object, namely, the diffemination of religious knowledge, has been promoted, the Editors will not prefume to determine. They will however venture to say, that from information they have received from many places, they have reason to hope that God has blessed this work, and made it inftrumental of promoting the caufe of the Redeemer. From the encouragement which they have received the two last years, the Editors think it their duty to continue the Magazine. They return their fincere thanks to those who have communicat ed to them pieces for publication, and earnestly folicit their affistance for another volume. To their original plan they will continue to adhere; and they hope their brethren in the ministry, and others who are friendly to the work, will give them fuch affiftance as to enable them to furnish their readers with instructive effays and useful information.

The account of fales of the fecond volume, and of the profits arifing therefrom, will be publifhed as foon as it can be afcertained ; and an accurate ftatement will be made from time to time, that the generous patrons of this work may see that the profits are faithfully applied according to the original proposals.

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