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Glimpses of Both Worlds: Or, the Whole Family of Heaven and Earth
Glimpses of Both Worlds Or the Whole Family of Heaven and Earth Author:John Harvey Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: grasp of finite beings. Solomon, with all the knowledge he possessed, confessed his great ignorance of this subject. '' Then I beheld all the works of God, that ... more »a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because, though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea, farther, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it." 2. His Wisdom.—This is seen in the diversity of his works. " "Were man left to form things, he would make all uniform: he would make all the flowers to grow in beautiful rows, and all the stars in circles; but God has left the clouds in their dishevelled magnificence and beauty, and he has scattered the stars like gems in the firmament, ' One star differing from another star in glory.'" "We might refer to the pebble on the sea shore, and the ponderous mountain, whose summit is lost in the clouds, and whose shadows stretch far hence; to the sleeping lake, and to the rolling ocean. In the vegetable kingdom we behold the tender spire of grass, and the sturdy oak of the forest; the delicate primrose, and the ancient palm-tree; the cedar that rears its tall crest to the sky, and the herb creeping up the wall; the wild mountain daisy bowing in the breeze, and the cultivated vine bending with rich clusters of fruit. The animal kingdom also displays the wisdomof God. He is the source of life to all that live, from the innocent lamb of the field, to the savage king of the forest; from the tiny insect dancing in the rays of the sun, to the strong eagle perched on the crag of the rock; from the airy and silent butterfly, to the noisy lark, warbling her notes and mounting on high; from the nimble zebra, to the unwieldly elephant; from the domesticated dog on the hearth rug, to the hippopotamus browsing upon a...« less