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the most intelligent, the most provident, and the wisest of all the 

 creatures, inferior to man, wherewith the good Providence of God has 

 peopled and adorned this lower world. If the wisest of men pointed 

 a proverb, by drawing the ant from her seclusion ; no less does the bee 

 merit attention as an example of industry, patience, sobriety, and loy- 

 alty. Let whosoever is awake to the voice of the Creator, speaking 

 through the works of His hands, observe, reverence, and obey. 



