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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 2 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 burst, and now a world ?” 
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.” 
