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ence, the more we shall see that nothing has 

 been made in vain, and the more resistless will 

 be the proof that such a chain of causes and 

 effects as may be traced from one end of creation 

 to the other, could only have had their origin in 

 that One Mind to which every thing is ever 

 present, and who, in the very " constitution and 

 course of nature," has stamped too deeply to be 

 effaced, even amid the moral disorder man's folly 

 has introduced, the "image" of his own perfec- 

 tion, and the " superscription " that the work of 

 his hand is " very good" To God then let all 

 " render the things that are God's," by a full 

 acknowledgment of his wisdom and goodness in 

 thus supplying what they need, and by making 

 such a use of those gifts as may best prove their 

 gratitude, and most tend to the glory of the 

 Giver. 



