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 is almost universal. None but the fool will say in his - heart, "There is'no God." The wise and good in all ages have given us their reflections on this noble theme, and the sublimest language has been exercised to portray the glorious works of the Creator, and the wisdom which distinguishes them all. When we would unfold the greatness of the Creator's power we usually resort to astronomy. We go to the vast spaces, which he has peopled with planetary and central orbs. We ascend in thought from system to system, stretching one above and beyond another, until we gain a point so distant, that the interval seems to confound all our conceptions: and then we think of the mighty masses which he has poised in space; of those suns and systems ever occupying their appointed places, and rolling in their steadfast course through the void immense. These, it is admitted, are sublime and impressive views. But we have certain assurance that the operations of life afford views quite as impressive. God is a Spirit who deals not only with matter but with mind, and who aims to render both alike significant of glory and of, beauty, and both alike subservient to good. The power of such a Being is evinced in overcoming mental and moral, as well as physical difficulties, in the multitudinous objects and relations which he keeps ever in view—in the complicated and varied creations of the mind and will—in the dignity of the results attained. Is there not, then, power displayed in organizing a living, breathing, sentient being, though it be as small as the smallest animalcule? But O! the wonder of wonders, to know that man is in himself an epitome of all the wonders of the universe! His external man,