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ments as the Telescope and Microscope, no one 

 can adequately read the wonders of Creation and 

 Providence. " C'est la Bible a la main que 

 nous devons entrer dans le temple auguste de 

 la Nature, pour bien comprendre la voix du 

 Createur." We believe, accordingly, that the 

 time will come when not only " every one of 

 our more important educational Institutes will 

 have its own Museum," but its own Telescope 

 and Microscope, that the eye of the pupil may 

 from time to time sweep across the firmament 

 of heaven, and survey its vast globes ; and turn 

 to the minutest creature in the particle of dust 

 and drop of water ; and in them also see mighty 

 worlds^ and marvellous races of organized beings. 

 7. Such an education, rightly conducted, may 

 be blessed for turning the eye of many a young 

 scholar, and of many an advanced saint, not 

 only to the order and beauty and excellence 

 of the Creator's works in this present material 

 world, but upward to the higher things of spi- 

 ritual life, and onward to the very glories of 

 Immanuel's land. 



" What more prepares us for the songs of heaven ? 

 Creation, of archangels is the theme ! 

 What, to be sunjr, so needful ? What so Avell 



