28 Prussia and the German System of Education. 



and thou renewest the face of the earth. The glory of the Lord 

 shall endure forever; the Lord shall rejoice in his works. He 

 looketh on the earth, and it treuibleth : he toucheth the hills, and 

 they smoke. I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : I will sing 

 praise to my God while I have my being. My meditation of him 

 shall be sweet : I will be glad in the Lord." 



Iii like manner, the creation and nourishment, the 

 habits and instincts of various animals may be contem- 

 plated, in connection with Proverbs, vi, 6-8; Psalm civ, 

 17-22 ; Proverbs, xxx, 24 - 31 ; Gen. i, 20 - 24 ; Psalm cxl v, 

 15-16. 



" Go to the ant, thou sluggard ! consider her ways, and be wise : 

 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in, 

 the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." 



" There be four things which are little on the earth, but they are 

 exceeding wise : the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare 

 their meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet 

 make they their houses in the rocks ; the locusts have no king, yet go 

 they forth all of them by bands ; the spider taketh hold with her 

 hands, and is in king's palaces. There be three things which go 

 well, yea, four are comely in going : a lion, which is strongest among 

 beasts, and turneth not away for any : a greyhound ; a he-goat also ; 

 and a king, against whom there is no rising up." 



" And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after 

 his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beasts of the earth after his 

 kind : and it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth after 

 his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth 

 upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good." 



" The eyes of all wait upon thee : and thou givest them their meat 

 in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of 

 every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy 

 in all his works." 



The phenomena of light and color, the nature of the 

 rainbow, etc., may make another interesting lesson, illus- 

 trating the unknown forms of beauty and glory which exist 

 in the Divine mind, and which he may yet develop in 



