40 



strange^ that these all, feeling the inspiration of dev( 

 tion, should, involuntarily, join the chorus, breathed ouj 

 by all the works of Nature around them ? The brute] 

 keep not silence. The hovel, the pasture, the hill, tm 

 air, are all vocal, in praise. Can man be silent, whj 

 alone has the power of speech ? And, while surroum 

 ed, by this imperishable grandeur, for God is there, \i{ 

 remembers " the tree of life in the midst of the garden ;1 

 praise will be, on his lips ; and adoration Jill his heart, 



I address these considerations to husbandmen ; bel 

 cause, they are " doing a great work,'''' On them is coi 

 ferred the honor, of restoring the earth to the order an( 

 grandeur of its first creation. They are performing thi 

 closing labors of that great week of toil ; the six tho\ 

 sand years ; and preparing for the approach of the sevent) 

 the sabbath of time, the rest ofJYature. And when " ai 

 waste places shall become as Eden; and the desert as tl 

 garden of God;^^ then shall the Spirit of the Lor( 

 move over the land, as once, " on the face of the w? 

 ters ;" and the whole earth respond, " it is finished. '''' 



