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delighted to acknowledge in their works the shadowy 
forms of Pagan superstition, which they supposed to 
control, not only the passing events of life, but also 
the varied wonders of creation. They brought to 
bear upon the subject which engrossed their pro- 
foundest contemplations, all the feeble light which 
they possessed. They regarded as through a darkened 
glass, the dispensations of all-ruling Providence, and 
faintly looked up to the Parent of gods and men. 
And shall we, who walk in the clear light of the 
Gospel dispensation, refuse to acknowledge Him, 
who framed this well-ordered world—who spread 
the firmament above as a tent to dwell in—and who 
gives to his own glorious heaven, all its unalterable 
joys, and splendours which no mortal eye could 
steadily behold.—Shall we be ashamed to acknow- 
ledge, that once travelling in human form, he entered 
this magnificent museum, and sojourned among the 
wonders which his hand has made, to reveal at once 
what God is, and what man ought to be? Heathens 
might discover an eternal power, a surpassing wis- 
dom, an indefinable benevolence, in the signs and 
wonders of creation. Heathens might acknowledge 
a stupendous liberality in the grant of the whole 
fabric, and its garniture, and astonishing accompani- 
ments for the use of man. But the Christian philo- 
