INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 



XXlll 



hances the delight of studying the works of the Almighty 

 Creator, who has stamped upon the face of nature the impress of 

 his own infinity, and of whom we are assured that " his tender 

 mercies are over all his works " *, and that before him not even 

 one Sparrow "is forgotten" f. 



J. H. G. (1872). 



* Psalm cxlv. ver. 9. 



t Luke, ch. xii. ver. 6. 



