not therefore, look at the whole, or at any part, if we look with attentive eyes, without seeing a reflected Image of our HEAVENLY FATHER, and hearing it say to us, that it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture. Even our little fingers would thus testify to us our Divine origin, and impressing continually on our minds a devout sense of the near relationship in which we stand to the CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, would inculcate maxims of the brightest wisdom and most edifying sanctity. For if none but God can make a finger, and if every finger is besides a compound of innumerable particulars, and at the same time itself a particular, as making a part of the general body, then doth it not announce to us, with all the energy of its silent eloquence, that its MAKER is our MAKER, to whose goodness and wisdom alone we are indebted for the happiness of our existence, whether in reference to the whole, or to every part which enters into its composition?
I am persuaded, Sir, that I am not here speaking on a subject which is either new or strange to you, because your own intelligence and experience must often have led you to see and to confirm the truth of all that I am now remaking. Possibly, however, notwithstanding the bright evidence of this truth, which
