USO THE PALE BELL OF THE HEATH. 



and that God can so regenerate a cliild, even be- 

 fore its eyes have opened to behold ihe light of 

 day, we have distinct proof in Scripture. His 

 work accomplished, will any one venture to assert, 

 that, because llie undeveloped stale of the mental 

 faculties, and feeblerit >> '^f the bodily orgruis, pre- 

 clude ihe manifestation to us of what is passing 

 between the soul and its God, therefore noihing 

 does pass ? I cannot believe it. I remember an 

 instance of a confirmed idiot, whose fuculiies up 

 to the age of thirly or forly, had acquired no great- 

 er degree of expansion than was seen in the cra- 

 dle ; but who, during her last illness, at that age, 

 gave most inconteslible proofs of a glorious work 

 ^vrougllt in her soul, by the power of divine grace, 

 which she seemed enabled lo communicate to those 

 about her, for their special encouragement in tasks 

 so apparenilv hopeless : for, in other things, she 

 was an idiot to the last. Now, of all cases, the 

 infant and the idiot most nearly assimilate — I 

 speak, of course, of extremely younfr infanls — and 

 I am assured that (jod can — that he d < — work 

 in the soul, without the customary medjjin of the 

 bodily and mental faculties. Wlio, by searching, 

 can here trace his steps ? No one : but it is a 

 very sweet thought to engage us over the cradle 

 of a baby ; sweeter still, when we look upon its 

 cofTin. 



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