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 would soon work itself out. Yet does this wonderful machine go on, night and day, for eighty years together, at the rate of a hundred thousand strokes every twenty-four hours, having, at every stroke, a great resistance to overcome; and it continues this action for this length of time without disorder and without weariness. That it should continue this action for this length of time without disorder, is wonderful; that it should be capable of continuing it without weariness, is still more astonishing. Never, for a single moment, night or day, does it intermit its labour, neither through our waking nor our sleeping hours. On it goes, without intermission, at the rate of a hundred thousand strokes every twenty-four hours; yet it never feels fatigued, it never feels exhausted. Rest would have been incompatible with its function. While it slept, the whole machinery must have stopped, and the animal inevitably perish. It was necessary that it should be made capable of working for ever, without the cessation of a moment, without the least degree of weariness. It is so made; and the power of the Creator, in so constructing it, can in nothing be exceeded but by his wisdom." Truly are we fearfully and wonderfully made!—How beautifully does the incessant motion of the heart image the constant love of the Lord!

Were the heart to suspend its pulsations, the natural man would die; so, were the divine love to cease its communication with the soul of man, his soul would die also. Man may marvel at the construction of the heart, and wonder that the delicacy of its own parts wears it not out; but what is this wonder to the wonder-working power of the divine love, a feeble