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ception of those higher powers which regulate the 

 Universe. Let us contemplate some of the mighty 

 efforts of his faculties recently displayed the Elec- 

 tric Telegraph, for instance. By this invention man 

 can communicate his thoughts with the speed of 

 light to the most distant quarters of the globe ; but 

 it is not the electric fluid passing along the wire, nor 

 the signs denoting the letters of the alphabet, nor 

 the letters of the alphabet, which of themselves 

 express no ideas, but it is the Intelligence of Man, 

 combining all these different agents for a purpose, 

 which Intelligence alone could plan, and an Intelli- 

 gent recipient could alone benefit by. Although we 

 cannot trace the subtle agency by which the govern- 

 ment of the world is carried on, yet it is quite within 

 our power to conceive ; just as the intellect of man and 

 his power over the material world effects such wonders 

 as the Electric Telegraph, so a Higher Power and a 

 Brighter Intelligence may effect all those operations 

 of nature which we see around us. There is nothing 

 very difficult to understand in its operation ; we can- 

 not trace its subtle agency, but there is nothing at 

 all difficult to reconcile to our reason the supposition 

 that such agencies exist. If we grant the existence 

 of the over-ruling Power directed by Intelligence, 



