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of the same hand ? Surely there is ; and 

 faith may learn to see the same God in both. 

 No doubt there are men of science who may 

 reject such inferences, and declaim against 

 appending such notions to the details of phy- 

 sical research; but the Christian sees other- 

 wise, and receives from all the incidents he 

 meets with a different impression. 



In reviewing the various diseases to which 

 our best cultivated plants are subject, we have 

 seen that there is not a cause of any one of 

 them to which there is not some antagonism 

 provided. These considerations lead us, by 

 analogy, to look for some such provisioa 

 against the diseases of the heart. We find it 

 in the revelation of mercy God has made to 

 man. There is only this difference, that while 

 the antidotes to the pests which injure the 

 fruit of our labours in the soil are as numerous 

 as the pests themselves, the great remedy for 

 all our moral miseries is but one, but that one 

 is capable of every conceivable modification to 

 suit the necessities of every case, and the wants 

 of every age of the world. We may also re- 

 mark that the analogy goes further. While 

 the provision of natural antidotes does not pre- 

 clude the exercise of human art to lessen the 



