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 then lay a part of them on every mountain; then call them, and they shall come swiftly unto thee: and know that God is mighty and wise."

The following account, on natural principles, is not destitute of beauty: it is selected from the 22d chapter, intitled Pilgrimage. "O men, if ye be in doubt concerning the resurrection, consider that we first created you of the dust of the ground, we cause that which we please to rest in the wombs, until the appointed time of delivery. Then we bring you forth infants, and afterwards we permit you to attain your age of full strength, and one of you dieth in his youth, and another of you is postponed to decrepit age, so that he forgetteth whatever he knew. Thou seest the earth sometimes dried up and barren: but when we send down rain thereon, it is put in motion, and swelleth, and produceth every kind of luxuriant vegetables. This sheweth