ENTOMOLOGICAL. 73 



me at the thoughts which rushed into my mind, as I said, 

 " If this be not a dream or delusion, I see the phenomena 

 of my own mortal life; for, if the 'Great First Cause' 

 has bestowed this threefold being, and given me the 

 privilege of seeing it typified in one of the humblest of 

 His creatures, why may I not reasonably look within and 

 discover the internal evidence of my own grand future, 

 partly exhibiting itself in my spiritual longings now ? " 



Afraid lest my enthusiasm should carry me beyond 

 the realms of truth, I hurried off to the mounter of my 

 cherished object. I asked him to take down his micro- 

 scope and look at it. He only employed a low power, the 



"Transition : " st-lf-buiied pupa of a ha\vk-mut!!. 



object being a large one. Yes," he said, " it is the pupa 

 of a gnat ; that's all." " Increase your power," I said ; 

 when, nearly as much surprised, but not half so delighted 

 as myself, he confirmed my belief that it really showed 

 the future life of the gnat concealed within the pupa. 



Surely there is a suggestive parable in nature as we 

 look upon the transition in and transformation of an 

 insect, as it lies wrapped in its grave waiting the sweet 

 influence of the sun to awaken it to its newness of life on 

 its resurrection morning ! Verily all things " are double 

 to that which is " ! * 



* Job xi. 6. 



