THE BEAUTIFUL LADDER. 
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But we must pause, though the collection 
of vegetable jewelry has received but a partial 
examination. The object of the lesson, it is 
hoped, has been obtained—the rescue of seem¬ 
ingly natural deformities from the unjust judg¬ 
ment passed upon them, and the corresponding 
impeachment of the works and ways of him 
who made all things in infinite wisdom for a 
place and a purpose, the glory of his name and 
the good of his creatures. 
“ Whoever has been enlightened by a study 
such as just been set before our minds can 
never contemplate the places where Nature has 
made such rich depositories of her treasures 
with loathing, nor sanction the charge of mis¬ 
directed energies. On the contrary, one thus 
instructed and delighted will hold in a new and 
clear light the works of God, and feel a stronger 
impulse to join in devout adoration. One so 
enlightened will have more vivid conceptions 
of divine goodness. He will not only see the 
glory of the Creator spread over the heavens, 
and touching hill and valley with something of 
his own majesty and beauty, but mark its illu¬ 
minating beams among the most obscure walks 
and ways of Nature. With this wonder-reveal- 
