THE BEAUTIFUL LADDER. IO3 
drop of water with millions of tiny inhabitants. 
The infinitely small has led us to the infinitely 
Great. We see not the life-mote which the all¬ 
wise One has fashioned and made to live, but 
we do most clearly and adoringly see, with the 
eye of our faith, him who is invisible, the only 
wise God, our Heavenly Father. 
“ But, folding the wings of our imagination, 
and retracing our pathway until we have reach¬ 
ed the point at which the images of the invis¬ 
ible animalculse are brought within the range 
of vision, let us for a few moments give some 
of them a closer inspection. 
“The structural forms of the Infusoria are 
almost endless, and in their coloring they quite 
exhaust the tints of Nature’s palette. The most 
common, and probably the most numerous, are 
known as mo7iads. These animated atoms are 
little clots of jelly-like matter, with a single 
hairy filament as the organ of motion, and are 
of a great variety of shapes. In all shallow rain- 
pools and other still waters, during the warm 
months, they are so plentiful as often to tinge 
the entire accumulation. How numerous they 
may become can be understood when it is 
known that in a single drop, only one-tenth 
