286 PURPOSE OF THE ANIMATED CREATION. 



laid open to view, and we cannot well doubt that we are in the 

 hands of One who is both able and willing to do us the most 

 entire justice. Surely in such a faith we may well rest at ease, 

 even though life should have been to us but a protracted 

 malady, or though every hope we had built on the secular 

 materials within our reach were felt to be melting from our 

 grasp. Thinking of all the contingencies of this world as to be 

 in time melted into or lost in some greater system, to which 

 the present is only subsidiary, let us wait the end with patience 

 and be of good cheer. 



