352 NATURAL THEOLOaY. 



terrestrial creation- That great office rests with Jmn: be 

 it ours to hope and to prepare, under a firm and settled per- 

 suasion, that, living and dyinsr, we are his ; that life is passed 

 in his constant presence, and that death resigns us to \\ii 

 merciful disposal. 



