NATURAL THEOLOGY. 



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hope they may lead you to a more realizing sense of 

 the Being around us, and dispose you to study with 

 more attention that still higher revelation of himself, 

 with which he has privileged us in his holy word. 

 Though we shall speak only of particular instances of 

 design, it is not because there are not innumerable 

 others equally deserving our notice ; the object mere- 

 Jy being, to select a sufficient variety of examples 

 that may be easily understood, and to present them 

 in some order which may assist your recollection. 

 You may begin with what has been called the noblest 

 part of the human structure. 



THE HEAD. 



A. The head holds the first rank of all the visible 

 parts of the body. 



T. Principally, because it contains the brain. 

 You are aware how important the brain is, and that 

 the least injury may occasion the loss of the senses, 

 and be followed by fatal consequences. What do 

 you remember upon this subject ? 



A. The brain is considered as the seat of sen- 

 sation, to which the impressions of all the nerves 

 are transmitted; the more.imniediate residence of the 

 living principle ; and the organ with which Provi- 

 dence has mysteriously connected the exhibition of 



