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eral plan mapped out by the time we meet the 
doctor.” 
“ All right!” was the answer ; “ and so good¬ 
night.” 
It is hardly necessary to say that the thoughts 
of the two young friends were largely given to 
the subject of providing for the widow’s family 
during the time which intervened until the next 
meeting at the parsonage—thoughts that lin¬ 
gered with a pleasure to which they had been 
strangers, and which, in marked degree, prepared 
their minds for the next topic of discussion. 
When again convened Doctor Dean began by 
saying : 
Before we try further to ascend the ladder 
of the divine handiwork from the foot resting 
on the ^dry land,’ we must trace 'his footsteps 
in the sea,’ for even there, amid its whirl of 
waters, we shall ‘see the works of the Lord, 
and his wonders in the deep.’ 
“ From the first sight of the ocean up to the 
day when a careful inspection of its waters with 
the microscope was begun, it has been the 
grandest image mirrored on the soul—sublime 
in its sweep over two thirds of the globe, un- 
