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 Divinity upon the Christian Redeemer, though the combined efforts of infidelity should write ten thousand volumes to prove otherwise.

A knowledge of the Divine Omnipresence may in some measure be obtained by consulting our own marvellous construction, and the astonishing wonders of our being. Whoever contemplates the beautiful mechanism of the human body,—the nice adjustment of each subtle nerve and fibre, the wonderful combinations required to produce the pleasurable sensations of sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch—the constant circulation of living blood, imparting life, and health, and strength to all the animal system; the constant death and renewal of the particles which compose the human body, while the identity is preserved to the remotest period of human life. Above all, when he contemplates the astonishing powers of mind, by which he is enabled to soar above the earth, to range in the immensity of space, to measure the distances of the planets, and even to contemplate the Deity Himself—he will be constrained to acknowledge, in the language of Revelation, that he is "fearfully and wonderfully made." The ancients used to call man a microcosm or LITTLE WORLD. In this little world, man is omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent. No approaches can be made to his world, or touch communicated, either from without or within, but he is instantly present to recognize the approach—to remove it if an enemy, and to receive it if a friend. Nothing can take place in his little world without his knowledge. The least disorder is instantly known, and a remedy applied. He is omnipotent in his own world. He has all power in it,