becoming a fruitful field, let us not fail to turn wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad around us, and rejoice that the wilderness is time when they shall stand so thick with corn, the Bishop dedicated the church to Saint Ste- for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blos- " After observing in the introduction upon phan, and preached an admirable sermon from that they shall laugh and sing : when we feel blooming around us ; the valleys, till lately aban- " ' Whilst we see the natural wilderness F 2 foulest and most degrading, hold the spirits of our thoughts to that cheerless moral desert, doned to solitude and desolation, teeming now 68 FALLS OF THE CAVERY Bishop thus proceeded : - quickens, where ignorance the most appalling, a most appropriate text, Isaiah xxxv. 1 . ' The som as the rose.' the prophet's usual custom of representing prejudices the most deadly, superstitions the millions in dreadful subjection, withering all spiritual blessings by natural emblems, the with life, and in certain progress towards that a delight in the changes thus taking place where no salutary plant takes root, no verdure