280 THE MICROSCOPE AND ITS LESSONS. 



been happily associated in microscopic research, associated 

 with the dear ones whom I ha\ e " loved and lost awhile." 



In this book, the child of my old age, I have only been 

 able to mention a few illustrations of the wonderful works 

 of God, endeavouring to keep Him steadily in view, never 

 forgetting the pretty story told us of the late Emperor 

 Frederick, of Germany, who, while attending the examina- 

 tion of some school-children, took a coin from his pockef, 

 and asked to what part of the natural kingdom it belonged, 

 when he received the ready answer, " The mineral 

 kingdom ; " then, taking a flower from his button-hole, 

 he repeated the question, and " Vegetable kingdom " was 

 the reply ; and then he asked, " And to what part of the 

 kingdom do I belong?' 1 Then there was a long pause, 

 for how could those juvenile subjects of an emperor de- 

 scribe him as an "animal"? At length some nervous 

 youngster said, " The kingdom of God" And the monarch 

 is said to have added, with a tear in his eye, " God grant 

 I may indeed belong to His Kingdom." 



This threefold cord, I have ventured to use in the 

 preceding pages, in the fond hope that, while advocating 

 the possession of a microscope which will assuredly be 

 found to be one of the readiest, most effectual, economical, 

 and useful teachers in the world, will, when rightly 

 iapplied, not only prove to be a new sense to the mind, 

 but a great " aid," if there be such a thing, to faith. And 

 my earnest wish and loving prayer for any who may 

 devote a few hours to the contemplation of the truths I 

 have imperfectly taught is, that, rightly, reasonably, and 

 scripturally, taking the revelations of the microscope as 

 so many illustrations of the written revelation in the 

 Bible, they may fully and heartily and savingly accept 

 the one while they are privileged to behold the other ; 

 and then 3 with me, when they come to the last chapter hi 



