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same laws which governed the growth of the plant life in 

 primeval ages, which developed the giant forests whose 

 remains are now found in our coal formations, are now in 

 force, controlling the growth of our forests and crops. Those 

 laws which governed the growth of extinct races of mam 

 moth animal life, whose fossil remains are the only evidence 

 left us of their former existence, were the same by which 

 the farmer must now be guided in the development of his 

 domestic animals. 



NATURAL LAW ALL PERVADING. 



This code is all pervading. Its influence reaches not only 

 all material things, but it also influences through these all 

 industrial occupation. It extends its controlling power over 

 our lives and health, and gives us no alternative but obedi- 

 ence, or sickness and its accompanying dangers of prema- 

 ture death. 



THEIR AUTHOR. 



We should be impressed with the fact that these are the 

 laws of God, and that He holds us alilce responsible for the 

 observance of those which apply to ourselves, as for the 

 observance of his moral laws. They are so intimately related 

 that the violation of the former often involves the direct and 

 flasrrant violation of the latter. 



The knou'lcdgc and observance of natural and moral law 

 constitute the difference between an enlightened and barba- 

 rous state, the elevating influence of the former being 

 scarcely less than that of the latter, while all material 

 improvement is dependent upon our knowledge of those 

 laws which govern material things. 



