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of God and the gate of Heaven! It is a delightful thing 
to learn to see God in his works, and to admire them as 
_his. He would then be present with us as our instructor ; 
and though our eyes might be holden that we should not 
know Him, we should feel his influence, and we should say 
afterwards, “ Did not our hearts burn within us while he 
talked with us by the way?” It is possible to taste the 
blessedness of the travellers towards Emmaus. “I am bet- 
ter acquainted with Jesus,” said a departed saint lately taken 
away in his prime,—“1 am better acquainted with Jesus 
than I am with my dearest and most intimate frend.” 
“Enoch walked with God and was not, for God took him,” 
and he will take us also if we walk with him—not indeed 
without tasting of death, but dispelling our doubts and 
fears, and making death our friend. 
“Oh! could we make our doubts remove, 
These gloomy doubts that rise, 
And see the Canaan that we love 
With unbeclouded eyes! 
Could we but climb where Moses stood, 
And view the landscape o’er, 
Not Jordan’s stream, nor death’s cold flood, 
Should fright us from the shore.” 
One advantage that the study of Zoology has over that of 
