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THE AIR. 



all our coal. How wonderful, and how good, is the fore- 

 knowledge of Grod ! Just at a time when the great forests 

 of the earth are fast disappearing, and with them the only 

 other source of fuel for fires, this reserve of the old forests, 

 which was then useless, serves man as a most excellent 

 friend more useful than gold or silver, more precious than 

 diamonds or rubies ! But this world is one of perpetual 

 change, and the coal thus brought forth from the depths of 

 the earth, is by man being rapidly restored to the air from 

 whence thousands of years ago it was derived ; and it is 

 not coal alone which is thus being restored, but every 

 organic being in the whole creation, for at their decay they 

 all enter this vast mausoleum of the dead ! 



