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these large creatures, Avhile more minute beings 

 would be beneath His notice. And so with me : 

 God may order and arrange the great events in 

 my life ; but are not the little ones too small for 

 Him to regard?" The life of an insect answers 

 these doubts. It tells us, that though a being be 

 only of the size of a grain of sand, or not larger 

 than the full stop at the end of this sentence, God 

 has supplied it with the most beautiful organs ; 

 has endowed it with life, and with the most won- 

 derful instincts, thus manifesting that, in the 

 words of Scripture, " His care is over all His 

 works." If God, then, 



" To whom an atom is an ample field," 



has not thought it beneath Him to take care for 

 such diminutive, short-lived creatures as these, 

 how much more will He care for His own people, 

 reconciled to Him through the blood of Jesus, and 

 sanctified by the Holy Spirit of promise ! We 

 are not left, however, to learn this blessed truth 

 from the page of creation alone. Our Lord has 

 himself declared to us, that the very hairs of our 

 head are all numbered, and has left on record the 

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