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THE BEAUTIFUL LADDER 
was perilled in beholding such a scene of en¬ 
chantment. From that day these animalculae 
have never ceased to be objects of delighted 
study, with their ever-impressive lesson of the 
wonders of Jehovah’s handiwork. 
“ I am fortunate in having a rich collection 
of these minute beauties to submit to your in¬ 
spection to-night. You can indulge in their 
examination as long as you please. In the 
wildest dreams of the imagination we could 
hardly picture creatures so strangely fashioned. 
Had the ancients been acquainted with the 
microscope, they would have had living mod¬ 
els for all the nondescript creatures with which 
they so liberally illustrated their mythology. 
“ While the mind is thus wonder-wrought, 
who can help exclaiming. Truly, we do not 
have to search for, nor turn to, majestic sources 
to find that the ‘ works of God are great, sought 
out of all those who have pleasure therein ’! 
“ But we must not dally too long; for, circum¬ 
scribed as the field of our observation is, it is 
too ample to admit of much delay or minute¬ 
ness. 
“Among the larger and more complex or¬ 
ganisms of the Infusoria, the Rotifers, BrachonicB, 
