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SPECIAL INTEREST. 
ot Divine care and provision long before he 
came to possess his endowment. 
The anticipated demand, and the dis¬ 
covered supply in the physical world, has 
a parallel on a higher level in the foreseen 
wants and supplies of the spiritual world. 
1 he inference that a purpose is to be ac¬ 
complished in the moral government of the 
universe, because we see a plan manifested 
in all accessible departments of creation, 
may be extended by the consideration that 
as in the one w e see not yet the end, all 
things are still working out the vast design; 
so in the other case, there is a future yet to 
be attained, and to its probabilities and in¬ 
dications it becomes us devoutly to apply. 
The temper of mind which such studies 
when rightly pursued are calculated to ex¬ 
cite, is w^ell expressed by a recent writer. 
The firm believer in revelation examines 
the result of scientific inquiry, or himself 
^ opens the inward explication of the form 
of the w^orld ’ as food for the reverence he 
would feel for his Father in Heaven. He 
is satisfied with the divine word, and, re- 
