THE MICROSCOPE AND THE TELESCOPE. 3 



shows us what is almost more wonderful even than 

 this ; for it shows us that though the High and Lofty 

 One who inhabits eternity has created all these vast 

 systems of suns and stars, yet he has not thought- 

 it beneath Him to chisel the egg of an insect or to 

 adorn the coat of a tiny caterpillar. Well might we 

 pause and ask as we look now through the wonder- 

 revealing tube of the microscope and then through 

 that of the telescope Was it not a greater evidence 

 of power and wisdom to create, clothe, organize, 

 and endow with the powers of life, a little atom 

 which we can detect only by means of a powerful 

 microscope, than to form even a great and mighty 

 world ? For our part, then, we think an insect's 

 history as much a display of the wisdom and 

 infinite power of the Creator as the history of 

 such an enormous body as is the sun, or any of 

 the large planets belonging to our system. How- 

 ever humble be the object w r hich God has seen 

 fit to create, let not any one think it beneath 

 him to examine. The poet Thomson has written 

 some pretty lines which we shall venture to tran- 

 scribe, which, with far greater beauty of language 

 than we can pretend to, set before us the same 

 train of thought : 



