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LIFE, IN ITS INTERMEDIATE FORMS. 



might be extended almost ad libitum : but these are suffi- 

 cient to shew that God cares not only for sparrows, but 

 even for worms also. 



What, then, shall we infer from hence 1 Shall we 

 take up the infidel sentiment of the poet, so unjustly be- 

 lauded — 



" He sees with equal eye, as God of alL 

 A hero perish or a sparrow fall ; 

 Atoms and systems into ruin hurl'd, 

 And now a bubble busst, and now a world V* 



Nay, rather, let our comfortable conclusion be, that which 

 the Lord Jesus teaches us to draw from analogous ex- 

 amples : " If God therefore so clothe the grass of the field, 

 which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall 

 he not much more clothe you ?" " Ye are of more value 

 than many sparrows." 



