122 SEASIDE DIVINITY. 



sufficient to exhibit the beauty and the efficiency 

 of the laws of physics to which they can be traced, 

 and the beneficence, the wisdom, and the power, 

 in which those laws have their birth. To the 

 continual operation of those laws we may attri- 

 bute not only those fresh and salubrious breezes 

 which contribute so much to the health and 

 vigour of the inhabitants of our coasts, but those 

 rains which fall upon the land supplying our in- 

 numerable brooks, rivers, and lakes ; and clothing 

 our hills, plains, and valleys, with luxuriant 

 verdure. In such an agency it is impossible not 

 to perceive an ever recurring evidence of provi- 

 dential design. 



