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SYSTEM OF NATURE. 
and eternal. Attributes like these are due only to the 
Creator. Thus am I led to the belief that the great 
centre of all is occupied by God ; and that His protecting 
influence, His upholding power, His life-giving presence, 
radiates from the centre even to the uttermost parts of His 
boundless and wondrous creation. 
The feeble intellect of man is lost in attempts to realize 
an idea of the infinite majesty thus implied. The globe 
which we inhabit is but one of several, attendant on a 
single sun. Our sun is one of millions. Let the imagina¬ 
tion surround each sun with attendant orbs; clothe each 
orb with verdure ; people it with life; then recollect there 
is but one Creator, and He, the Creator of every sun, of 
every attendant world, of every inhabitant of those worlds, 
of every system of inhabitants, the Author, and ever-pre¬ 
sent upholder of one and all. We abandon the attempt to 
understand attributes so superior to our own. 
Should it occur to any reader to enquire how such a 
Being, clad in omnipotence, present in all space, existent 
through all time, can be reflected oi\represented, however 
dimly, in the figure or intellect of one, dependent on His 
pleasure for the breath of life, I will reply by another 
enquiry ; 1 will ask, has He not said it ? has He not pro¬ 
claimed in words whose lustre time cannot dim, whose 
truth sophistry cannot impair, “ God created man in his 
own image, in the image of God created he him ? ” 
