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operating through all extent. Mutual connections, 
dependencies, analogies, display the unity of the 
all-operating Power. The continual adjustment of 
means to ends, traceable through a vast diversity of 
conditions of organized being, apparent discordances 
rendered subservient to general order, and general 
good resulting from apparent partial evil, manifest 
the intelligence, wisdom, and goodness of the Al- 
mighty Ordainer, Operator and Sustainer of all to 
which man’s contracted faculties, even in their ut- 
most advancement, can hope to attain. For innu- 
merable are the checks which solemnly admonish 
the aspiring investigator, “ Hitherto shalt thou 
come, but no farther,” Job xxxviil. 11. 
To the vain-glorious builder of systems again and 
again the Lord declareth, as he answered to Job out 
of the whirlwind, 
“ Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words 
without knowledge ? 
“ Where wast thou when I laid the foundations 
of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 
** Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou 
knowest ? or who hath stretched the line upon it ? 
‘“* When the morning stars sang together, and all 
the sons of God shouted for joy ?” 
How solemnly just the philosophy, how heart- 
lifting the sublime poetry of this ancient and hal- 
lowed composition ! 
The wise will answer with Job: 
* Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee ? 
I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.” 
