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into inter-entering tubes ; to collect and com- 

 bine the requisite materials for the different 

 kinds of glass needed ; to melt them, grind, 

 fashion, and polish them ; adjust their densities 

 and focal distances, etc., etc. A man who can 

 believe that brass can do all this, might as well 

 believe in God. The most credulous men in the 

 world are unbelievers. The great Napoleon 

 could not believe in Providence ; but he be- 

 lieved in his star, and in lucky and unlucky 

 days. 



This banishing God from the world is simply 

 intolerable, and, blessed be his name, impossi- 

 ble. An absent God who does nothing is, to 

 us, no God. Christ brings God constantly near 

 to us. He said to his disciples, " Consider the 

 ravens, for they neither sow nor reap ; which 

 have neither store-house nor barn ; and God 

 feedeth them; how much better are ye than 

 the fowls. And which of you by taking 

 thought can add to his stature one cubit ? 

 Consider the lilies how they grow ; they toil 

 not, neither do they spin ; and yet I say unto 

 you that Solomon in all his glory was not 

 arrayed like one of these. If then God so 

 clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, 

 and to-morrow is cast into the oven ; how much 



