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Rh ear, and the rest of the senses, for the several gratifications, with which they are continually solacing and supporting you, by presenting you with an exuberance of their multiplied and enchanting powers of affecting you. I cannot therefore for a moment doubt, but that in a mind like yours, the blessed song of praise and gratitude must often have been elevated to the, in humble and thankful adoration of the goodness which suggested, of the wisdom which devised, and of the power which constructed so many inlets for the reception of all that is delightful, interesting, and edifying in this lower world.

And here I might call your attention to the astonishing mechanism, displayed in the fabrication of the organs of the above senses, and manifesting a skill, in comparison with which all the works of human contrivance and ingenuity are rude and unskilful. For examine only the wonderful internal structure of the eye and the ear, as made known by the experimental discoveries of modern anatomists. Look attentively, I say, at the organ of sight, with all its several appendages of its retina, its coats, its three fluids—called humours,—its cornea, its pupil, and its chrystaline lens, &c., all arranged together in an order the most exactly suited to admit all the modifications of light, and thus promote vision. Look next at the organ of