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play the wisdom, power, and all-superintending care of the 

 Lord of earth and sky, who in the beginning created the 

 heavens and the earth, with all that they contain, and who 

 equally gives to man for his guidance and instruction his 

 word and his works. 



"In His Creation as in His government, the Creator 

 embraces at all times, with His all-comprehending kindness 

 the innumerable and the unbounded the infinitesimals, as 

 well as the immensities of nature the invisible from dis- 

 appearing smallness, no less than the imperceptible from 

 incalculable remoteness. We may overlook what is petty 

 as beneath the notice of our pride ; but nothing, however 

 small, has been deemed worthless, or is disregarded by Him, 

 whom no name or language can sufficiently describe ; whose 

 power is Omnipotence; whose presence is universal; whose 

 knowledge is omniscience ; whose creations extend and 

 constitute space ; and whose existence is eternity." 



" These are thy glorious works, thou Source of good ! 

 How dimly seen, how faintly understood! 

 Thine and upheld by thy paternal care, 

 This universal frame, thus wondrous fair; 

 Thy power divine, and bounty beyond thought, 

 Adored and praised in all that thou hast wrought. 

 Absorb'd in that immensity I see, 

 I shrink abas'd, and yet aspire to thee ; 

 Instruct me, guide me to that heavenly day, 

 Thy words, more clearly than thy works display, 

 That, while thy truths my grosser thoughts refine, 

 I may resemble thee, and call thee mine." 



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the blood in his veins, (Linguatula Venarum,) others again are seated in his 

 kidneys, (Strongilus gigas,) others in his muscles, (Hydatigera cellulosa,) 

 the guinea worm, (Filaria medinensis,) in his cellular tissue : the ovaries of 

 females are infested by another (Linguatula pingnicula), the tape-worms 

 extend themselves joint by joint to an enormous length in his intestines, 

 (Tsenia solium and Botryocephalus Hominis,) some select the large intestine 

 (Trichocephalus Hominis), and others, the small ones, (Ascarus lumbri- 

 coides,) some even attack infants, and them only, (Oxyurus vermicularis.) 

 "Kirby's Bridgewater Treatise," Vol. 1. p. 324. 



