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distinctly traced by its film of vapour rising as from a cauldron, and a 

 nice hotbed of iniquity it is. To the left of Guildford, Leith Tower and 

 the large group of beeches on Hedleigh Down are distinctly visible; and over 

 the Bagshot Hills Crooksberry Hill, near Waverley, in Hampshire, rises 

 in the blue distance. 



ON UNITY OP SYSTEM. 



( Continued ft om page 106.) 



The observations on this subject offer the following conclusions or 

 suggestions, which may afterwards be more fully illustrated — There is one 

 Supreme Deity who fills all space and all creation, to whom belongs all 

 power, who never changes, and of whom is all creation and every single 

 creature. 



Accordingly it is stated that the existence of all the visible creation, 

 and of every creature separately, begins in the Deity and ends in Him; 

 and thus the present life of each is imperfect, both in itself and as 

 forming only the middle part of the system, the beginning and the end 

 being wanting. The Deity still continuing one, and His power in every 

 creature not being separate from Him, it may be inferred and is clearly 

 proved by observation, that every creature exhibits in itself the whole 

 system, though as variously as the structure is various, — thus illustrating 

 the beginning and the end in combination with the middle part. This 

 Being, whose perfection is infinite, is thus the source of all, and why all 

 creatures do not share His perfection, but are all variously imperfect, is a 

 mystery for which there is no explanation but by the Bible, where it is 

 partially revealed. 



The present creation, by which time and space are measured, may be 

 said to hide eternity and infinity, which are wholly incomprehensible as 

 such, and cannot be manifest until it cease. Though the term millions 

 were continually doubled in speaking of the ages of creation, still time, 

 when so measured, is wholly distinct from eternity, as it can neither add 

 to nor diminish from it, and the same may be said in reference to the 

 distinction between space and infinity. The term millions of years may 

 comprehend some of the later and shorter periods of creation, but the 

 earlier epochs were exceedingly longer, so as not to be definitely expressed 

 by numbers, and the changes since the creation of man have been succes- 

 sively more rapid. 



The system of creation, wholly and in all its details, or collectively and 

 particularly, was pre-ordained before the beginning of creation, and all the 

 events of the same, from the beginning to the end were foreknown, and 



