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"to reduce the wood to the earthy condition which 

 •should enter into other forms. Then comes man, a 

 -settler in the forest wilderness, a stranger and an 

 emigrant from a far-off land. Coming to make himself 

 a home, he must cut down the living trees and clear the 

 .ground with axe and fire. He sows the wheat and corn 

 upon the rich black vegetable mould, but he may not 

 think that he owes much of its fertility to the unseen, 

 insignificant agents that for unnumbered ages, under 

 iihe direction of the infinite God, have been preparing 

 the ground to receive the grain for the life-sustaining 

 bread for himself and his children. 



Thus we see that by the heavenly Father's order, 

 "" Something gathers up the fragments, and nothing is 

 lost.'' 



" Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even 

 -they shall understand the lovingkindness of the Lord." 

 v(Psa. cvii. 43.) 



THE END. 



