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and honor, and placed over all tlie works of the Creator's 

 hands." He is therefore the divinely crowned monarch of 

 creation ; and whoever subjects to man any power of nature 

 or brings under his dominion any of nature's realms is car- 

 rying out the behest of the Creator, is giving to man the 

 monarchy that is his due, and should be numbered among the 

 conquerors to whom the world pays homage. 



" The heavens show forth the glory of God and the firma- 

 ment declareth the work of His hands." He therefore who 

 gave us the telescope that we might see deeper into those 

 immensities; he who gave us the spectroscope that we might 

 more intimately know their distances, their motions and the 

 very mechanism of their construction ; he who taught the pho- 

 tographic camera to fasten on an unfading retina what the 

 great eye of the telescope beholds of solar convulsions or of 

 starry depths — all these are bards who, whether they advert 

 to it or not, chant to mortal ears the glory of the Creator, and 

 are honorable in His sight and in the sight of all men. 



The beneficent Father above has Himself united and almost 

 identified well-doing to our fellow-men with love and dutiful- 

 ness to Himself. Honored, therefore, of men and of angels 

 should be those patient delvers in the realms of science, who 

 teach us how to guard our health and our lives against the 

 myriad enemies ever assailing them, and who cure or soothe 

 any of the ills that humanity is heir to. 



Man must learn from his fellow-men. Thought begets 

 thought. He, therefore, is a benefactor whom all should bless 

 who taught mankind to fasten thought in writing; and he 

 who, by the printing press, scatters it to the ends of the earth ; 

 and what shall we say of that marvelous invention, on which 

 your venerable President dwelt so eloquently to-day, which 

 shall give us not only the stored-up thought, but even the 



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