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posing oil tli6 promises therein contained, 
he is grateful and happy. 
How can he better shew his gratitude 
than by examining the wonders of the 
omnipotent hand, which, to make a dwell¬ 
ing-place for man, has hung over frowning 
mountains, and laughing fields, and rejoic¬ 
ing rivers, the ever-shifting and many- 
coloured canopy of the sky ? He may meet 
with wonders he cannot fathom, and seem¬ 
ing contradictions which he cannot recon¬ 
cile ; but he looks at these as a child 
regarding some master-piece of his father’s 
skill, his uncertainty melting away into 
reverence, his perplexity swallowed up in 
admiration. He has a patient confidence 
that all is right and reconcileable, and that 
one day he will himself see how. Mean¬ 
while as he walks abroad, in a world which, 
to his cultivated eye, is teeming with won¬ 
ders from the starry host above him, in 
their exquisite and almost tuneful regularity, 
making music to their Maker’s praise, down 
to the smallest flower and insect on which 
he treads, pencilled and articulated with 
the most delicate care—each new develope- 
