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FROM GENEVA TO CHAMOUNY.

HAMOUNY! Yes, we are going to
Chamouny, to see Mont Blanc, the
Glaciers, and a thousand other beauties
and wonders.

It is the 14th of August. Up! up! It is near five o'clock. Let us dress quick. Let us ask the Lord to bless our journey; and then let us breakfast in the twinkling of an eye. Here is our little porte-manteau, and basket of provisions. Let us set out.

We are at Geneva, on the quay which borders the beautiful lake; and now here we are at the coach-office. This coach is such a height, it will be famous for giving us a good view of the scenery! But how are we to climb up there? Here is a ladder.

"Take your places, ladies and gentlemen!" Everyone scrambles to his or her place, doors are shut, ladders taken away, the driver cracks his whip, and off we go!

We admire the pretty country houses to the right and left; then the long village of Chènes, which stretches out like a suburb.

The Salève Mountains are before us, and in the plain winds the yellow and muddy Arve. To the left rises the Mole, and we soon find ourselves in a scene of en chanting beauty. Mountains higher and higher rise to the right; a fertile plain lies before us; a beautiful, richly-laden orchard stretches away to the left.

"Oh, how glorious are the works of our Heavenly Father!" I exclaimed involuntarily, exhilarated by the delicious air and the magnificent prospect.

"Yes," said a young woman at my right, "our Heavenly Father has indeed scattered countless beauties upon the earth!"

"See!" I said, "He toucheth the hills, and they smoke!" and I pointed to where a light vapour resting on the top of the mountains gave a vivid illustration of these words from the civ. Psalm.

"True," replied my neighbour, "and how lovely these white wreaths are!"

"You take great pleasure in this beautiful scenery ?" "Oh, yes, greater than I can say," and her eyes filled

with tears.

"Are you one of those happy people who rejoice in the beauties of nature with the delightful feeling"My Father made them all?"

"Yes, thank God, I am happy in knowing that God is my reconciled Father in Christ."

Oh, how sweet it is to meet a fellow-Christian in a foreign land! How quickly we felt at home with each other, and how happily we conversed on the love of God as revealed in His Word and in His works.

"Ah," said my new friend, "how I should like to resemble those trees at our left! See, they are so richly laden with fruit, that they bend under the weight. Some branches have to be supported lest they should break. It reminds me of our blessed Lord's words, 'Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit.' Oh, how I should like to glorify my Heavenly Father!"

"Observe, then," I said, "the secret of all this fruitfulness. Look at the stream which flows near, and from which the roots of these trees are continually drawing in new sap. Does it not remind you of the

words of the first Psalm-' His delight is in the law of the Lord; and on His law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper?' The more one studies God's Word, with prayer for His Spirit's teaching, the more fertile does one's life grow in good words and good works."

"Oh, that is what I should like. What you say reminds me of the advice of my dear father. I wrote to him lately, saying that I was tired of being so far from home, and in a foreign country. He replied, My child, I fear you do not often enough shut the door upon you, and pray to your Father who is in secret. A child of God has no right to be lonely. He is never alone, never forsaken.'"

"And your pious father was right-most truly right. See how these mountains surround us! 'So the Lord is round about His people, from henceforth even for ever.' Oh, I could give you many, many instances, from my own experience, of His watchful, tender, fatherly care."

All this time we were advancing rapidly on our journey. When we stopped to change horses, children came crowding round the carriage, offering us fruit. But how were we to reach it from our high perch at the top? A little basket is cleverly hooked on the end of a stick, and here are lovely peaches and pears within our reach. We take the fruit, put our money in the basket, and a pretty little tract into the bargain. "Thanks, good gentlemen!" "Thanks, kind ladies!" and we are off again.

At Balme here are two little cannons by the highway. What for? There are no enemies here. Oh, no: but if you would like to hear a prolonged echo, you have only to pay a franc, and they will fire one of them off for you. The sound, repeated by the rocks, seems almost interminable.

A little further on, there is a grotto of stalactites; and further on again, a beautiful cascade, the water of which, falling from a great height, seems like a vapoury shower.

We cross the great bridge at Sallenches, and after a good dinner at the hotel, we set out again, no longer on our high perch, however, but in a calèche; for the large diligences are too heavy to climb the steep mountains.

It rains. Oh, what rain! No matter, it will not damp our spirits: and the sun soon shines out again.

Who can sing? We are only a party of four, but happily we can all sing; and my new friend is delighted to join her voice with ours in singing one of the hymns which she had been accustomed to sing in her Sunday school, far, far away from Switzerland. Accordingly we all joined in singing Bishop Heber's lovely hymn, which seemed most appropriate:

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The road now began rapidly to ascend. The apple trees gave place to walnuts, the corn to buck-wheat and hemp. Birch trees, pines, graceful larches, and redberried arbutus, gave a charming variety to the scene. The mountains surrounded us. We slowly crossed a bridge over the Arve, which rushes noisily out of a deep gorge. Our road is now along its side. It seems to sing its eternal hymn of praise to Him who has dug its rocky bed, and decked its course with beauty. Now the rocks are higher, and the descending clouds hide the mountains from our view. We try to look, between the barberries and pine trees, down into the precipice

beneath.

Soon the gorge opens, and shows us masses of white clouds, whirling around the high peaks, now rising, now falling, now closing, and now opening-to reveal the valley of Chamouny!

Now we are at the village of Ouches, famed for its honey and surrounded with bee-hives. We are 958 metres above the level of the sea (Geneva is but 379); the air is keen and cold, and we are glad of our warm wraps. Still our road ascends, and our glad voices now unite in singing:

"Onward, Christian soldiers, Marching as to war, Looking unto Jesus

Who is gone before.

Christ, the royal Master,
Leads against the foe;
Forward into battle

See His banners go.

Onward, Christian soldiers,
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Looking unto Jesus

Who is gone before."

Never had I felt that inspiring chorus more thrilling than there, in that foreign land, with those foreign friends, and in the midst of those wonderful works of God. And now a sudden burst of sunshine threw such dazzling glory over the snow-capped peaks, that our voices were hushed, we were mute with admiration. "Oh, if there is such beauty upon earth, what will Heaven be ?" exclaimed one of our party. And soon, with softened voices, we were singing of Heaven:

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"How dazzlingly white, and yet, here and there, what a beautiful blue!"

"Ah, that is a glacier! The glacier of Gria, which descends from the summit of Mont Blanc."

Soon comes the glacier of Taconay, then that of Bossons. We cross the Arve, and then all the magnificence of the glaciers is displayed before our dazzled eyes. How can we express our feelings-how relieve our bursting hearts? Only in praise; and, while the tears still rest upon our cheeks, we sing with one

accord:

"Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
Praise Him all creatures here below,
Praise Him above, ye Heavenly host,
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost."

The carriage stops. The rain has ceased. The clouds disperse; a light breeze rises. A golden beam from the setting sun touches the last cloud which hovers over the snowy summit of Mont Blanc, and in a moment it is spanned by a magnificent rainbowblessed sign of the faithful promise of our God-promise of peace and love through Jesus Christ-promise which has already received its accomplishment in us who, "being justified by faith, have peace with God," and the earnest of our Heavenly inheritance.

Dear reader, if you had been with us, would you have been a sharer in our joy? Would you, too, have rejoiced in feeling,-" My Father made them all?”

THY GOD-FOR THEE.

"Thy God hath sent forth strength for thee."-Psalm lxviii. 28. N the autumn of 1878, a lady was spending a few weeks at a lovely village in Kent. The main object of her visit was the hope of gaining health and strength for a young invalid, of whom she had taken temporary charge, and whose own relatives were not in a position to afford her change of air and scene. The delicate appearance of the sick girl, as she was wheeled out in a garden chair along the lanes, moved the kind sympathy of several residents in that neighbourhood. Presents of flowers and hot-house fruit were sent from no less than three or four quarters, for her comfort and pleasure. The lovely blossoms, becoming scarce in the late autumn, were highly prized in the invalid's chamber, imparting double pleasure-not only for their intrinsic beauty of form and colour, and the fragrance they diffused in the little bow-windowed parlour, but also for the lesson of trust in a God of love which they conveyed in hours of depression, bringing to mind the Saviour's words, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. If God so clothe the grass of the field. . He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" But the splendid grapes, also sent, the lady found were not available for the sick one. With an invalid's wayward fancies, she refused to touch or taste even one of the tempting, luscious berries covered with rich bloom. It seemed to the lady wrong to waste these dainties on those in health, and she refused to partake

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