" Nothing of all these various existences was formed in vain ; and that which 

 is, however it may appear to our confined and imperfect comprehensions, 

 is formed with supreme wisdom. It does not become us to pry too boldly 

 into the designs of God. We whose lives are but those of a day, are un- 

 able to judge of the councils of that Providence, whose economy regards 

 not the objects merely of our senses, but the whole system of Nature. We 

 cannot scrutinize the performances of God, nor can we possibly, with all 

 our boasted wisdom and cunning, discover the grand connexions between 

 incidents that lie widely separate in time, and which are only known to 

 power infinitely surpassing ours. The Creator did not plan the order of 

 Nature according to our confined principles of economy. The stupendous 

 performance of the Deity is one throughout the Universe ; and if Provi- 

 dence does not always calculate exactly according to our mode of reckoning, 

 it would but become our inferior stations and judgment, instead of indus- 

 triously seeking out imperfections, to discover that these lie alone in our 

 own erroneous powers of discrimination. It would be well, if, instead of 

 looking to self-interest only, in the works of the Creation, we could, 

 according to the remark of a late writer, consider these things in the same 

 light as when different seamen are waiting at one port for fair winds, each 

 to the country to which he is bound ; where we plainly see it impossible 

 that all should be satisfied. " BINGLEY. 



