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Rh fruits might we not expect from their fidelity and obedience, and how would the in the human mind not only be preserved from violation, but advanced also every day towards the fulness of its perfection and blessedness!

But there is yet a third use and benefit derived from the sense of bodily taste, which must not be forgotten, and that is—the extent and enlargement of the kingdom of the Divine goodness and blessing in the human mind and life. For what considerate person cannot discern, that every sensation of delight, whether mental or bodily, originates in the, and therefore may more properly be called the offspring of  than of man? Indeed, that it is not the offspring of man, or in any respect under man’s control, is demonstrable from the fact, confirmed by every day’s experience, viz. that man is utterly unable of himself to command either a lost appetite for food, or a lost relish in the use of it. We are compelled then to confess, that the daily bodily sensation of delight, resulting from the reception of meats and drinks, is a daily gift from above, intended, if rightly used, to convince us of the, by the addition of another plant to oar paradisiacal garden; and at the same time, to elevate the tone of our daily praise and gratitude to the