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admiration and his wonder; deep reflection on 
these leads him to 
Find tongues in trees, books in the living brooks, 
Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. 
‘“* In a moral view,” says an anonymous writer, 
“‘T shall not, I believe, be contradicted when I 
say, that, if one train of thinking be more 
desirable than another, it is that which regards 
the phenomena of nature with a constant refer- 
ence to a supreme intelligent Author. To have 
made this the ruling, the habitual sentiment 
of our minds, is to have laid the foundation of 
every thing which is religious. The world 
thenceforth becomes a temple, and life itself one 
continued act of adoration. ‘The change is no 
less than this; that whereas, formerly, God was 
seldom in our thoughts, we can now scarcely 
look upon anything without perceiving its re- 
lation to Him. Every organized natural body, 
in the provisions it contains, for its sustentation 
and propagation, testifies a care on the part of 
the Creator, expressly directed to these pur- 
poses. We are on all sides surrounded by such 
