26 Dmssia and the German System of Education. 



powers and operations of nature, and to consider them as 

 so many illustrations of the wisdom, power, and goodness 

 of the Creator; and at each lesson they are directed to some 

 appropriate passage of the Bible, which they read and 

 commit to memory: and thus the idea is continually im- 

 pressed on them, that the God of nature and the God of 

 the Bible are one and the same Being. 



For example, as introductory to the whole study, the 

 first chapter of Genesis, together with some other appro- 

 priate passage of Scripture, as the 147th Psalm, or the 38th 

 chapter of Job, may be read and committed to memory. 



The surface of the earth, as illustrating the power and 

 wisdom of God, may be taken as a lesson. 



Then the varieties of surface, as mountains, valleys, 

 oceans and rivers, continents and islands, the height of 

 mountains, the breadth of oceans, the length of rivers, 

 remarkable cataracts, extended caverns, volcanoes, tides, 

 etc., may be taken into view, and the teacher may impress 

 upon the class the greatness, power, and intelligence neces- 

 sary for such a creation. The whole is fortified by the 

 application of such a passage as Psalm civ, 1-13. 



" Bless the Lord, O my soul ! Lord my God ! thou art very 

 great; thou art clothed with honor and majesty. Who coverest thy- 

 self with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like 

 a curtain : who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who 

 maketh the clouds his chariot : who walketh upon the wings of the 

 wind: who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire. 

 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed 

 forever. Thou coverest it with the deep as with a garment : the 

 waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; at 

 the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. They go up by the 

 mountains ; they go down by the valleys into the place which thou 

 hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not 

 pass over ; that they turn not again to cover the earth. He sendeth 

 the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. They give 

 drink to every beast of the field ; the wild asses quench their thirst. 



