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Space ;’ that supreme love embraces £multaneously all created beings, and sees every one present before him in his individual identity. God has placed us in the world to govern while we traverse it. We pass along under his eye and hand, but in the fulness of the liberty derived from him, នstāined by the eternal decrees of his power, animated by the never-ceasing love which he foels for the creature he has made. Through him, nothing is wanting to us here below in our only important undertaking, for he has given us duty and froèdoni ; through him, nothing can fail us in the future, for in death he will satisfy the desires. of our hearts and minds by giving us himself for nourish. ment, by filling us with the sight of his glory, and the overflowings of his love. What signifies it that we must tread even over flints upon briars, to arrive at such a termination ? True happiness must be conquered to ascertain its real value. We accept the trial courageously ; and we convert our sacrifices into a hymn of praise to the glory of the God who supports and calls us. This world, so completely filled with his divinity, is no longer a prison, but a temple. From the moment when we learn our origin and end, as children of God, destined through his munificent rule to return to him again, we feel that our first duty is to unite ourselves with our heavenly Father, and to employ ..every moment of life in testifying our gratitude. We owe worship to God, and for our own necessities and consolation we are called upon to adore him. How are we to offer up our praises to the great Creator, who, by his single will, has produced the world from nothing, whose power and grandeur have no parallel, and cannot be expressed by words; ‘S who exists above time and space in absolute independence and consummate felicity ? . Amongst the most signal benefits which God has conferred upon us, we must reckon that he has imposed a law, assigned a task, and furnished an opportunity of serving him, by co-operating, asit werein his own work. Without liberty, we shonla be incapable of worship. God has assigned to us, in some measure, for the exercise of our freedom, our active powers, and our duty, a limited sphere, in which, after luis example, we can do good, and... contribute to the general ավy We can maintain ourselves wholly and health- . fully, in body and spirit, without con tracting pollution, without enervating We are enabled to exercise the faculties of the body, to direct the powers of the mind towards eternal truth, and to love or weakening the understanding. everlasting beauty with all our hearts. We can, while following the prescribed path, discern in our front, and on every side, those of our breathren who are condemned to suffer, through ignoranée, vice, discase, or calamity, and we can fly to their assistance with indefatigable ardour. We can bind up their wounds, allay their thirst, distribute to them our superfluity, or make then partakers of our competence, enlarge their minds, and cure or revive their hearts, and in the absence of other aid, we can animate them by our example, while we teach them to know and serve God, and to find enjoyment in his service. While looking on life with lọtty views, we can devote ourselves to science, labour without intermission, not for ourselves, but in the cause of truth, penetrate the secrets of nature, and distribute to the living world, or consecrate to posterity, those treasures which G 3d has dis. pensed to us, that our brethren “may