the wall ;" and " a greater than Solomon " vin- 

 dicated the claim of this exquisite part of the 

 creation to be studied and admired, when he 

 declared that the Monarch of Israel, " in all his 

 glory," was not arrayed like one of the lilies of 

 the field ; while at the same time he instructed us 

 how to draw from the study its most consoling 

 and important inference, that " if God so clothe 

 the grass" his fostering love will assuredly be 

 bestowed in full measure on us, his rational 

 creatures. 



There is one point of view from which the 

 acquaintance with any of the works of creation 

 assumes its highest moral aspect, God is Truth ; 

 the one only source from which no error ever 

 flows ; and whenever we have arrived at the 

 undoubted knowledge of any facts in nature, we 

 have made a fresh approach to truth and to the 

 " Fountain of Truth." Let the subject of in- 

 quiry be what it may, this assertion will be found 

 to hold good. What God has not disdained to 

 make, we may surely think it time well bestowed 

 to examine, and coming to that examination in a 

 right spirit, we may indeed find " tongues in 

 trees," and even in what man, in his insolence, 

 has called the meanest weeds. 



