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the inorganic elements of the outer world, and produce such 

 effects as are commonly designated by the word " miraculous," 

 and that, too, simply according to that higher degree of laws 

 specifically adapted to such operations, and unfolded for such 

 specific purposes. Such would be instances of the highest 

 manifestations of indirect providences. 



But if God dwells and rules, with a perfect and harmonious 

 display of all the principles of his nature as God, in a being 

 such as we have supposed, then it follows that the more any 

 man is like such a being, the more fully God " works within 

 him to will and to do according to his own pleasure," the more 

 he is under the direct operation of the highest order of Divine 

 Providences, the more he is raised, as it were, above the 

 sphere of mere material things and their laws, and the more 

 he becomes a medium through which the Divine Being, in his 

 affectional, intellectual, and volitional nature as such, acts upon 

 beings and conditions below him, to bring them up to the true 

 standard of heal thfuln ess, harmony, and perfection ! And 

 when all human beings shall be fully united to God shall 

 fully "dwell in him, and he in them," then all human beings, 

 with their outer conditions, and even the whole physical world, 

 divinely acted upon through their mediation, will undoubtedly 

 be spiritualized, and elevated one Discreet Degree, and peace 

 and plenty, and that universal harmony and love, which may 

 be considered as uncontaminated and unperverted outflowings 

 from the Divine Fountain of Infinite Harmony and Love, 

 will take the place of the corroding selfishness, the distracting 

 animosities, and the physical, as well as moral, diseases and 

 sufferings which now roll their desolating waves over the 

 earth. 



Let it be .distinctly understood that the foregoing theory of 

 Divine Providences is presented simply as a rational deduc- 



