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 for he rules, governs, and directs it at pleasure. This command he has received of his Heavenly Father.—"The heavens are the Lord's, but the earth hath he given to the children of men." The earth, indeed, is the Lord's, but he hath given it to the children of men that they might replenish it and subdue it. Now, allow me to say, that all the angelic heavens, the blest abodes of the righteous, and all the worlds in the universe of creation, with all things in those worlds, constitute and form the great world of our Heavenly Father; and the knowledge we possess of man being omnipresent, omniscient, and omnipotent in his little world, will give some faint idea of the omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence of God in His, to us, great world, as the Creator of all things, the Supporter of all things, and the universal Giver of every blessing.

The omnipresence of God is clearly proved from the happiness arising from good deeds, and the wretchedness and misery resulting from evil ones!

Every crime is a foul derangement of the order of God's great world; and the Divine Omnipresence, Omniscience, and Omnipotence, are there to recognize and pronounce judgment. Such Omnipresence will always prove to vice confusion, but to virtue peace.