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four elements combine to form all organic beings 

 forming hundreds of distinct parts in each one, just 

 fitted for their places. Their affinities are such 

 that they answer perfectly the needs of the organic 

 bring through the whole course of its life, and when 

 broken up and thrown off by the vital processes, they 

 are alike prepared to appear in other forms. To 

 create such elements implies infinite wisdom, as 

 well as infinite power. To believe them to be 

 uncreated would be possible only to the ignorant, 

 or to those constitutionally unable to weigh proof. 



Such a vast liel.l here opens before us in the 

 groups of dements, in * ing their varied pro- 



perties by which they are fitted for the part which 

 i one plays upon the globe, that we need not go 

 beyond the domain of chemistry to show the exist- 

 ence and wisdom of the Creator, and that His 

 handiwork extends even to the dust of the earth. 

 We might go much farther in pointing out the 

 nature of the elements already considered. They 

 show design in their adaptation to plant and animal 

 life, as well as to the higher nature of man. The 

 same is true of all the abundant elements that are 

 well known. But many of them have such plain 

 reference to the intellectual nature of man, that we 

 shall refer to them only in that relation. And we 

 have now come to that part of our course where 

 the adaptation of the world to man's higher nature 

 must claim our chief attention. 



