Will the reem submit to serve thee?
Will he, indeed, abide at thy crib
Canst thou make his harness bind the reem to th

furrow?
Will he, forsooth, plough up the valleys for thee?
Wilt thou rely on him for his great strength,
And commit thy labour unto him?
Wilt thou trust him that he may bring home thy

grain, And gather in thy harvest?

The rhinoceros is very hurtful by the havoc which he makes in the fields. This circumstance peculiarly illustrates the passage from Job. Instead of trusting him to bring home the grain, the husbandman will endeavour to prevent his entry into the fields, and hinder his destructive ravages.

In a note upon this passage. Mr. Good says “the original reem, by all the older translatcrs rendered rhinoceros or unicorn, is by some modern writers supposed to be the bubalus, bison, or wild ox. There can be no doubt, that rhinoceros is the proper term, for this animal is universally known in Arabia, by the name of reem, to the present day.”

The rhinoceros, though next in size, yet in docility and ingenuity, greatly inferior to the elephant, has never yet been tamed, so as to assist the labours of mankind, or to appear in the ranks of war.

* The rhinoceros is perfectly indocile and untractable, though neither ferocious nor carnivorous. He is among large animals, what the hog is among smaller ones, brutal and insensible; fond of wallowing in the mire, and delighting in moist and marshy situations near the banks of rivers. He is, however, of a pacific disposition; and, as he feeds on vegetables, has few occasions for

oonflict. He neither disturbs the less, nor fears the greater beast of the forest, but lives amicably with all. He subsists prin. cipally onlarge succulent plants, prickly shrubs, and the branches of trees; and lives to the age of seventy or eighty years.

· THE GREATNESS OF GOD.

Eternal power! whose high abode,
Becomes the grandeur of a God;
Though far it spreads beyond the bounds,
Where stars revolve their little rounds :
Not heaven thy presence can contain,
Nor heaven of heavens thy power restrain.
Thee, while the first archangel sings,
He veils his face beneath his wings.

Lord, what shall earth and ashes do ?
We would adore our Maker too.
Meek, on our knees, to thee we cry,
The great, the holy, and the high !
Earth from afar hath heard thy fame,
And babes have learnt to lisp thy name;
But, oh! the glories of thy mind,
Leave all our soaring thoughts behind.

Yourer, Painter, Kirkby Loosdale,

THE MARTYRDOM OF WOLFGANGUS

SCHUCH, A GERMAN. Wolfgangus was a zealous and pious minister of Christ. Coming to a certain town, he was so well received by the inhabitants, that he became their pastor, and laboured by every possible means to poor out of the hearts of the people idolatry and superstition. This, through thc grace of Christ work. ing with him, he in a short time, had brought prosperously to pass, according to his desire; insomuch that the worship of images and all idols, with the abomination also of the mass, in

that town, was utterly abolished; the Lord having been pleased so powerfully to affect and change the hearts of the people there, and such affection had They in general for their minister.

It was not long before the rumour of this came to the hearing of Duke Anthony, Prince of Lorrain, in whose domi. nions Woltgangus lived, through the swift report of the adversaries, who framed all kinds of falshoods respecting these innocent Christians to the Duke ; making it appear, as if they, in renounoing the doctrinal faction of the Pope, went about to reject and shake off all authority and power of princes and all superior governors. By means of such base reports, they incensed the Prince to such indignation and displeasure, that he threatened to subvert and utterly to destroy the whole town with sword and fire. Wolfgangus hearing of this, wrote to the Duke his own uncle in the most humble and submissive manner; defending both his ministry, the doctrines which he taught, and in fact the whole cause of the Gospel.

In this letter he first excused the people who were an innocent and blameless set; and said that these slanderous reporters were rather worthy to be blamed and also punished for the false rumours and forged slanders raised up against them. He then opened and explained

the cause and state of the Gospel; and of our salvation, consisting only in the free grace of God, through faith in Christ his Son; comparing this with the confused doctrine of the church of Rome. He proceeded thirdly, to our obedi. ence, honour and worship, which first we owe to God and to Christ, next un. der him to princes and potentates, whom God hath placed in his own room, and endued with authority here on earth : to whoin he and his flock offered themselves now and at ail times most ready to obey with all service and duty.

But Wolfgangus gained nothing by this epistle ; either because it was intercepted by the way, or else because the false accusations and wicked tongues of his adversaries, had a greater inftu ence with the Duke than this simple defence of truth. Seeing there was no other remedy, rather than the whole town in which he laboured should be in danger for his cause, this good man of his own accord, removed to another city; where he determined, if called apon, to make a confession of his doc. trine and thus take all the danger upon himself.

On arriving at the city, he was irnmediately seized, and cast into a loathsome dungeon, where he was sharply and bitterly handled by the churlish and cruel 'keeper. The constancy of