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made that rod to bud in Aaron's hand, and 

 blessed that manna that " little thing" to 

 nourish the thousands of Israel, would ever be 

 Israel's Guide, and Guardian, and God. So the 

 observer of nature, now permitted to enter the 

 hitherto untrodden and unseen court of her 

 temple, as he sees her strangest mysteries re- 

 vealed to his view ; as he beholds the amazing 

 expenditure of wisdom, and power, and good- 

 ness, on the minutest objects of the Divine 

 workmanship ; as he looks upon the tiny insect, 

 that ages ago fluttered away its brief existence 

 in a few hours, still preserved after the lapse 

 of ages in all the exquisite perfection of its 

 structure ; or as he surveys the organism which 

 at the distance of millions of years may have 

 found its dying bed in the bosom of that flinty 

 rock, and yet remains to this day after an 

 ordeal, perchance, of many floods and fires 

 with its gorgeous shield of elaborate carving 

 and delicate tracery all unscathed, here stands 

 confronted with over-awing and overwhelming 

 evidences, even from the very least and lowest 

 of organized beings, of the being and perfections 

 of the Omnipresent, Omnipotent, and Omni- 



