And now, gentle reader, the sun has almost set; its bright beams are gilding the western horizon with tints of purple and gold, while light, fleecy clouds, with beautiful silver linings, are blending harmoniously with the scene. It is a sweet picture, but turn from it und

"Listen to the heart. It hath a sigh

That the world heeds not, an inwoven mesh

Of hidden harp-strings. If thou'lt hold thy breath,
And with a meek and noiseless footstep glide
Down the sad pathways of humanity,

Then shalt thou hear from every passing breeze,
The sigh of souls that have no comforter,
Soft echoed joys, as from a grass bird's-nest,
And broken strains of sublunary hope,
'Till feeling in thyself the quickening tide
Of sympathy for all whom God hath made,
Thou lovest the hand that rules these harmonies.

So listen that the monotone of self

May die away, and with Creation's song,
Of many parts, thine own sweet praise ascend,
Until thou join the harpers round the throne."

DISCOURSE

ON THE

LIFE AND CHARACTER

OF

JOSEPH BROWN SMITH,

Late Professor of Music in the Kentucky
Institution for the Blind.

BY

REV. JOHN HEYWOOD,

Minister of the Unitarian Church,

LOUISVILLE, KY.

DISCOURSE.

And there shall be no night there.-REV. XXII, 5.

WE are to consider the life and character of one to whom, so far as the outward eye was concerned, in this world it was always night; to whom, as to the great Christian poet, returned not, with the returning seasons.

"Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine."

To our brother, from the cradle to the grave, it was all night, ever-during dark; outwardly, not inwardly, for within shone celestial light which Milton invoked, and which his mind, through all its powers, did irradiate. And now he has gone to the world where there is no night; which needs not the light of the sun, or the moon, for the glory of God lightens it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. What a change from ever-during darkness to ever-during day! In view of the great transi