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brought to see no hand of God. For what 

 just, compassionate and merciful Father Die- 

 ty would let loose a host of death dealing, 

 ravenous Wolves in miniature, upon ignorant, 

 frail, supplicating creatures of his kindly cre- 

 ation — his own, fore-known, fore-destined, 

 children ? But rather the astonishing, strange 

 uncomprehended workings of some mightier 

 power in almighty Nature infinitely beyond 

 the weak, puny, priest-aborted rudiments of 

 perception, dawning in the infant brain of 

 Man : carrying out a grand design of unfath- 

 omable profundity, in which an atom is as 

 mighty as a mass, a second as significant as 

 a thousand years, and the smallest being in 

 the universe of as much importance in the stu- 

 pendous scheme as lordly Man, himself, with 

 all his presumption, arrogance and self conceit 

 thick upon him — leading us to exclaim with 

 Hamlet, in immortal Shakespeare : 



"There are more things in Heaven and 



Earth, Horatio, 



Tlian are dreamt of in thy philosophy I" 



FINIS. 



