GOD’S CARE FOR HIS SMALLEST CREATURES. 29 
and the bee-nurses feed her with the stimulating 
“ royal jelly.” In about ten days, she issues forth 
as perfect a queen as ever came from a royal 
egg- 
In the whole range of animal life there is per- 
haps nothing more wonderful than these provis- 
ions of the Creator for the necessities of the little 
commonwealth of the hive. We may call it Na- 
ture, but 
“ Nature is but a name for an effect 
Whose cause is God.” 
It is not alone intelligent design which is mani- 
fested, but benevolence, stooping from the hight of 
heaven to plan and to care for an insect. When 
infidels are urged to receive the Scriptures, they 
often say that God is too great to attend to crea- 
tures so insignificant as ourselves. But what 
an answer to such an objection is found in the 
little incidents of bee-life just narrated ! It is 
plain that God cares for the bee; shall he not, 
then, care for us ? 
Man, created holy, coming forth in innocence 
from the hand of God, was fully provided for. 
Man fell ; but was he left to perish ? No ; a 
