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other and still more glorious worlds ; in connection 

 with Gen., i, 3, 5, 9, 13, 14, and other passages of like 

 kind. 



So the properties of the air, wind, and storm, Job, xxviii, 

 25 ; xxxviii, 33, 34, 35 ; Psalm cxlviii, 8. 



" Knowest thou the ordinance of heaven ? canst thou set the do- 

 minion thereof in the earth ? Canst thou lift up thy voice to the 

 clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee ? Canst thou 

 send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are ? 

 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts ? or who hath given under- 

 standing to the heart ? Who can number the clouds in wisdom ? 

 or who can stay the battles of heaven ? " 



Then the heavens, the sun, moon, planets, fixed stars, 

 and comets, the whole science of astronomy, so far as it 

 can be introduced with advantage into common schools, 

 can be contemplated in the same way. The enlightening, 

 elevating, and purifing moral influence of such a scheme 

 of instruction, carried through the whole system of nature, 

 must be clearly obvious to every thinking mind ; and its 

 utility, considered merely with reference to worldly good, 

 is no less manifest. The second topic of religious instruc- 

 tion is more exclusively scriptural. The life of Christ, and 

 the history of the apostles, as given in the New Testament, 

 are chronologically arranged, and tables formed as before. 

 (Ill, 3.) The discourses of Christ are examined and ex- 

 plained in their chronological arrangement, and in the same 

 way the discourses and epistles of the apostles. The history 

 of Christianity, in connection with the cotemporary civil 

 history, is taught in a series of conversational lectures. To 

 conclude the whole course of religious instruction, a 

 summary of the Christian doctrine is given in the form of 

 some approved catechism. 



2. Knowledge of the world and of mankind, including 

 civil society, constitutional law, agriculture, mechanic arts, 

 manufactures, etc. 



