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possible purity, the seeds of that truth which is 

 essential to salvation ? 



These remarks, it is trusted, will he regarded 

 as natural inferences from the subjects before 

 the reader. Desirous to communicate know- 

 ledge to the farmer, the author cannot forget 

 his higher calling as a minister of the word of 

 life, and he is one of those who believes that 

 science may be made a fitting channel for con- 

 veying occasional hints upon the greater veri- 

 ties of the gospel. The wisdom and goodness 

 of God which shone in weaker rays in the 

 morning dawn of nature, break forth with 

 stronger beams in the scheme of redemption, 

 now that the Sun of righteousness has risen 

 with healing in his wings, and the day hath 

 appeared. We, then, should live as children 

 of the day; and we should remember that we 

 see the things of creation, as the key of know- 

 ledge opens them to our view, not in the light 

 of early morn, before the mists had begun to 

 melt, but with the advantages of those on 

 whom the true light shineth. There is not 

 a thing so small, so mean, or so low, as to be 

 incapable of reflecting some beam of this 

 light, not merely for the expansion of 

 our intellectual faculties, but for the in- 



