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his great works. But we may truly say, that he zs great in 
the formation of the smallest of his creatures. He is great 
in the formation of even the least of the little zoophytes 
that inhabit the waters, and he is in them seen to be good as 
he is great. Look at a large frond of Laminaria saccharinu 
six feet in length and perhaps a foot in breadth, and in 
many cases you will see it pretty thickly covered with round 
silvery spots. These are Lepralie of . different species. 
Examine them with a lens, and you will find that they are 
of exquisite workmanship. Had they not thus been 
“sought out” by you they might have perished,—their 
beauty unseen. But though unseen by man, the goodness 
of God would not have been unfelt. Every one of the 
silvery spots with which it was studded was a colony of 
living creatures taught by God to construct the beautiful 
habitations in which they lived. Their name was Legion, 
for they were very many; but they were not a legion of 
wicked spirits doing evil, and consequently miserable, but a 
legion of God’s creatures doing good, actively employed in 
doing his will, and consequently happy. Though they had 
never been seen by man, God would not have lost his praise, 
for he gave them life, and rendered that life uninterruptedly 
happy. “O Lord, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom 
