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It has made-a Providence without wliich " not a sparrow falletli 

 to the ground ;"-the study of those works can hardly fail to c^ive 

 us more enlarged views of the wisdom and goodness and power of 

 the Almighty,- -to prepare the heart for better and hi-her 

 aspirations than any to which the world prompts, and to causae it 

 to look forward in hope to the not distant day when all thin-s 

 shall be created anew, and when unmixed good and happiness 

 shall flow from our ever-increasing knowledge of "Him, in whom 

 we live and move and have our bein"-." 



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