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    sought the lawn , where she might watch the setting of the sun . Then said she to her young sister , " Come , and behold how far the glories of the sunset transcend the beauties of the morning . See how softly they melt away , and give place to the shadows of night !*' But Hope was riow weary . Her eye was heavy , and her voice languid . She folded her radiant wings , and dropped on her sister ' s bosom , and fell asleep . But Faith watched through the night . She was never weary , nor did her eyelids need repose . She laid the child on a bed of floweTS , and kissed her cheek . She also drew her mantle round the head of the sleeper , that she might sleep in peace . Then Faith looked upwards , and beheld how the stars came forth . She traced them in their radiant courses , and listened to their harmonies , which mortal ear hath not heard . And as she listened , their music entranced her soul . At length i a light appeared in the east , and the sun burst forth from the portals of the heaven . Then the Spirit hastened to arouse the young sleeper . ' * Awake , O my sister \ awake 1 " she cried . * ' A new day hath dawned , and no cloud shall overshadow it . Awake ! for the sun hath risen which shall set no more !"

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    ( Continued from p . 154 . ) The same arguments which prove the Being of a God , establish the doctrine of a Providence ; as the only evidence which men have of his existence is derived from his manifest relations to them as their Maker and Preserver . This evidence appears to us to be of a nature to preclude the doubts which , however , still subsist whether the mode of providential

    operation be general , universal , or particular . It has been the opinion of many philosophers and theologians that Providence acts by means of general lafws , established at the creation , which regulate only the more important concerns of human life , providing for the species but not for individuals ; and that by the clashing of these laws arise the various deviations from order for which it is otherwise difficult to account . To hold this belief , however , is to limit those attributes of Deity oh which the doctrine of a Providence is founded .

    If any event can take place , the causes and consequences of which were not foreknown , the Divine Prescience is imperfect . If any sentient existence was ever conferred without such a previous ^ adjustment of circumstances as would ensure the ultimate happiness of that existence , the benevolence of the Giver of life is irnpeachable . This belief that Providence is only general , assumes also that the aspect of events i ^ l ! he same to the Divine and the human mind ; that what appears trifling to the one is disregarded by the

    ? Natural Theology ; or Essays uu the Existence of Deity , atid of Providence , on the Immateriality of the Soul , and a Future State . By the Rev . Alexander Crorubie , LL . D ., &c . 2 Vote . Hunter , and T . rfookhairi . 1829 .

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    CROMBIE ' S NATURAL THEOLOGY . *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1830, page 223, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2583/page/7/