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meat-offering at our hands, neither would He have showed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these." And surely it is a true instinctive belief in the human heart that God does not mean to destroy us for ever-when He clothes the earth with so much beauty, and permits us to gaze upon scenes, and study objects, whose wonders and glories appeal to the highest wants and capabilities of our nature. Surely by the glory of perishing nature He is training our souls for the excelling glory of immortality. It would be well for us if we understood this more, and felt it deeper, for then the glory of nature would not be wasted upon us, as it too often is, by reason of our sordid pursuits; and instead of emptying everything of God, and banishing Him from His own creation by our scientific studies, we should see everything reflecting His image, and hear the whole earth chanting His praise. Wise men of science would be led by their star, and shepherds and rustic labourers by their toil, to the feet of the Divine Child, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, and in whose spirit alone can any human being hope to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

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