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56 seen, heard, and enjoyed, under a new form, and presently returned, with the usury of devout thanks-giving, to its and ? The two bodily senses, then, of seeing and hearing, may be regarded, according to this view, as the appointed means of opening and keeping open a circulation of good things from one world to another, and especially from the to His creature man; that so man, standing in the mid-way between the two worlds, may become a partaker of the blessings of both,—and not only a partaker, but a grateful and everlasting inheritor,—under the acknowledgment that they are the perpetual gifts of his, designed to effect an eternal conjunction of what is otherwise dead and miserable with the  of life and bliss.

But we have not yet done with the bounty of an inexhaustible love; for, behold! another sense next presents itself to our consideration under the name of, and asserts its claim also to our most minute examination and boundless gratitude. Perhaps you have never, as yet, given yourself time to reflect what a treasure from the you possess in this sense, as well as in the senses of seeing and hearing, both as to its form and its uses. It is high time then that you should be excited to such