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the breath of all mankind." Such a study will 
present to us examples of industry, frugality, or- 
der, and skill, and we shall find ourselves at the 
feet of the “ Great Teacher,” the source of all 
knowledge. More than ever before shall we feel 
how true is the Bible when it says, — “ Ask now 
the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; and the 
fowls of the aii', and they shall tell thee ; or speak 
to the earth and it shall teach thee, and the fishes 
of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth 
not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath 
wrought this ? ” 
By such a study we shall learn to estimate 
rightly the wonderful provisions and resources 
of a creative Providence, and to see our own 
relations to all the infinite varieties of nature. 
Thus too we shall see that in common with the 
insect that flies in the summer sunlight, our own 
dependence is upon that Being whose plan of 
creation embraces the humblest, as well as the 
highest. Each alike displays Ilis wisdom, each 
has its destined and beneficent purpose to accom- 
plish. One of the learned and godly writers of 
the olden time says, “ If you speak of a stone, of 
