22 COilPARISONS OF STRUCT ORE IN ANIMALS. 



is beautiful in its construction, everything 

 elaborately finished; whatever structure or 

 tissue we examine by the aid of the micro- 

 scope, we shall be surprised at the elaborate 

 minuteness of its component fibres or particles, 

 and their exquisite arrangement. The more 

 we investigate, the more we shall wonder, 

 admire, and praise. How inscrutable is the 

 wisdom of the Creator I how forcibly do his 

 works proclaim his power! Can the Christian, 

 while he examines these wonderful proofs of 

 design, wisdom, and power in creation, doubt 

 his wisdom, design, and power in providence? 

 Can we doubt that He who created the heaven 

 and the earth, and who said, " Let there be 

 light, and there was light," ruleth over the 

 ways of his creatures — over the ways of man, 

 whom he created in his own image, though 

 that image is defaced by the entrance of sin 

 into the world, bringing guilt and death ? The 

 very hairs of our head are numbered; and not 

 a sparrow falls to the ground without his 

 permission. Happy is the man who looks 

 through nature up to the God of nature, provi- 

 dence, and grace, who has unfolded to us two 

 revelations; one, of his might and majesty in 

 the creation of suns, and moons, and stars, 



