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in introducing you to a few illustrations proving to you 

 the truth of the divine record in which they are written,, 

 it will be in good company, having only the glory of 

 God and your edification for my object. 



You will of course conclude, from reading the words, 

 that they very inadequately describe to us what was in the 

 mind of the author when he wrote. Have you ever really 

 and truly pondered over their mysterious meaning ? " Thy 

 look"! "my substance" ! " curiously wrought "! "in continuance 

 were fashioned" ! Do 'you not see they clearly refer to 

 human life before it became an inhabitant of the world, 

 when it had, not only as we have had, the "genesis," but as 

 we shall have, the " exodus " ? What was I ? what am I ? 

 what shall I soon be ? these are the three great questions 

 that we should practically consider if we would have a 

 right view of the greatness and grandeur of human life. 



"Does not everything around us and within us 

 indicate this life is preliminary and preparatory only 

 a segment, and not a circle ? If we are preparing for 

 something, should we not ask for what ? If we are afloat, 

 and the shore moves from us, and farewells are wafted 

 from the banks, shall we not ask whither ? From the 

 beginning to the end of the Bible the fact of a spiritual 

 world is assured. No attempt is made to prove it logi- 

 cally, for the simple reason that rents and openings are 

 constantly made, through which it floods the earth with 

 sunshine." 



These remarks apply, I know, to man's spiritual life, 

 \\ithwhich the microscope has nothing to do; but the 

 body is the dwelling-place of the soul, even as the nut is 

 that of the kernel, and while we are studying the mystery 

 of the outer part, we cannot help reflecting upon the 

 grand structure it has to exhibit. 



" Curiously wrought " ! <( in continuance fashioned ! " 



