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sj)ect." I fear it is rather out of shame than out of 

 respect ; the potent dread of that terrific word ''cant," 

 I much fear has effected the substitution. If we 

 remember the word of Jehovah himself, " Whoso 

 offereth praise glorifieth me" (Psalm 1, 23.), we shall 

 not think it any mark of respect to conceal his name 

 in speaking of his wondrous works, and to give the 

 honour of their formation to a fabulous and imaginary 

 power. 



No, this little ball of animated jelly is one of the 

 inventions of the Almighty Son of God ; of Him who 

 is the Brightness of God's glory, and the express 

 Image of his Person, without whom there was not 

 any thing made that was made. Its intricate ma- 

 chinery, all its clock-work circles and revolutions, were 

 originally the contrivance of his infinite wisdom, the 

 workmanship of his matchless skill. And they are 

 maintained in their beautiful order and precision, not 

 by any inherent force implanted in them at first, but 

 by his perpetual sustaining will. He, upholding all 

 things by the word of his power, maintains the vital 

 functions of this tiny globule, as truly and with as 

 absolute a volition as He maintains the motions of 

 the solar system, or they would instantly collapse into 

 nothing. He made this also for his own glory ; and 

 it is included in that extensive category, of which it 

 is declared, '' For his pleasure they are, and were 

 created." 



Every word of the above description was penned, 

 and my drawing was made, long before I was a^vare 

 that this little animal had been already described and 



