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most fully evidenced the powers of rnan ? and 

 most clearly illustrated the perfections of God. 

 For the universe which the Microscope subjects 

 to our ken seems as boundless in its very 

 minuteness, as that other universe which, in its 

 magnitude, still eludes the far-searching glance 

 of the Telescope. 



4. When declaring the care of the Almighty 

 and the Infinite One for the smallest as well as 

 the greatest of His creatures, and marking the 

 singularly gracious providence by which the Te- 

 lescope and the Microscope, that revealed alike 

 the mightiest and the minutest of God's worlds, 

 were invented about the same time, Dr. Chal- 

 mers, with equal truth and beauty, says of these 

 instruments : " The one led me to see a system 

 in every star the other leads me to see a world 

 in every atom. The one taught me that this 

 mighty globe, with the whole burden of its 

 people and of its countries, is but a grain of sand 

 on the high field of immensity. The other 

 teaches me that every grain of sand may har- 

 bour within it the tribes and the families of a 

 busy population. The one told me of the insig- 

 nificance of the world I tread upon the other 



