REFLECTIONS. 
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Tue author of this work, after half a century of as iduous 
study upon the noblest work of God,—the being called man, — 
and of his noble parts, and the many and various. diseases 
he is afflicted with by reason of the fall and disobedience of - 
the noble pair which God created immediately after the crea- 
tion of the planetary system,—the author's mind is carried 
back to the time when this planet was a fluid, dark and — 
_ shapeless ‘mass of matter; but it did not remain so long. 
The first thing done by its Creator was to create light, which 
_ disrobed the darkness which the earth then was in; and soon 
the dry land appeared, covered with youthful vegetation 
sufficient to satisfy the wants of the various and numerous 
animals, quadrupeds and insects that were placed upon it, 
The fountain of water was replenished with the finny kind. 
The air teemed with the feathered tribes, and insects of all 
sizes, shapes and descriptions. But after all created things 
were formed, man was yet in chaos; but he was after created, 
the crowning work of the whole of God’s creation,—like the 
golden ball on the spire of a church. But as yet man was 
alone; and to make 4 helpmeet, called woman, man was 
throwit by his great Creator into a profound slumber,—not 
with opium, morphine, chloroform, psychology, mesmerism, 
any kind of isms which apostate man, the 
_ devil and his imps in human shape have hatched up to de- - 
covet the sleep was caused by the omnipotent power 
of God, that raised and brought man from the dust of the 
