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Show 310 'filE LTHJ.;!lTY IJU.r .. the moun~ and of the voice ; S.'l.crcd to tho memory of tho great woo and the great &'llvation, and thereforo vocal both of praise aml of prayer. Its solemn tones still call tho weary and heavy laded crowds up from field and workshop, into the cathedral navis to confess their sins, receive absolution, and be comforted with the promises of Heaven. Dear to tho heart of man is the voice of the mystic Bell. Men of Reform arc but a. chime of bells. 'l1hc advocates of Liberty arc the Bells of tho 1!-.uturc. Let them ring on. Tho tower rocks, cracks, and crumbles, but there is an immutability in the Bell. States, like walls buiU of imperfect aud innumerable pieces, nrc ever rebuilding and improving, hut the chime of holy voices rings out from the baptised oracular souls whom God has placed like bells in their high midst, unalterable tones, suggestive of the good old Past in tho better !futuro ; tones like God, immutable, immortal, and invisible; tones responsive to all events, public and private, of joy or sorrow, of praise or blame ; tones threatening 311 judgment, pleading for met·ey ; hailing the birth of newborn heroes, and the death of martyrs ; bewailing the npostacy of the almost glorified; appealing lo tho ct·owcls in behalf of God and man· kind and themselves. T.Jet the Bells ring on. And among them ali your Liberty Dell. It was in virtue of a true Noacl1ian or Druidic initiation into the original meaning of the Bell, as well ns in the divinest poetry of love, that it was made to protect Fnilors from sunken reefs along lee shores : 11 The worthy Abbot of Abcrbrothock Floated the Dell on the Inch Cnpc rock; 'Vhcn the rock was h.id by the tempest's swell The mntincrs heard the wnrning Bell; And then they knew the perilous rock And blessed the Priests of Aberbrothock." Let tho Boll toll so long as the fog lasts, so long as tho storm blows, 80 Jong as the fire rages, so long us tho invaders of home and rights and life remain, |