"It is truly a most Christian exercise to extract a 

 sentiment of piety from the works of Nature. Our 

 Saviour expatiates on a flower, and draws from it the 

 delightful argument of confidence in God. He gives 

 us to see that taste may be combined with piety, and 

 that the same heart may be occupied with all that is 

 serious in the contemplations of religion, and be, at the 

 same time, alive to the charms and loveliness of 

 Nature." CHALMERS. 



