Xli INTRODUCTION. 



contributes to the food of man ; whilst others, by their 

 willing labour, have become our friends and servants in 

 every climate. We shall have then obtained more than 

 mere earthly wisdom, but shall feel the truth of the 

 verses : 



" Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of 

 thy hands ; thou hast put all things under his feet : 



" All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field ; 



" The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and what- 

 soever passeth through the paths of the seas." 



" O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name 

 in all the earth!" 



ELLIS A. DAVIDSON. 



