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XII. 



THE ARRANGEMENTS OF 

 PROVIDENCE. 



MY DEAR FRIENDS, 



I am going to give you a lecture on some of the 

 works and arrangements of the Great Creator of 

 all things, and which may serve to prove to you 

 His care and goodness in providing for the 

 wants of His creatures. Some of the facts I am 

 going to tell you may appear trifling ; but nothing 

 can be called trifling which shows beneficial 

 contrivance proceeding from the hands of Al- 

 mighty God. 



Some of you, in the course of your lives, may 

 have wandered over old pasture fields, which 



