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    As God himself is the unendiug , eternal , never varying * fullness of love and happiness , so does his creation form an image of endless majesty and beauty . It is the spirit of love which guides the movements of the heavenly bodies , manifesting itself in the uniform and harmonious laws , according to which , from eternity to eternity , in the boundless realms of space , countless stars , revolving in distinct , yet determined orbits , are suspended ,

    and circle around one another ;—the planets around the . sun ;—the moons around the planets ;—each sun forming" with its own system one connected whole , yet moving in concert with innumerable systems around one common centre ;—and so on and

    on for ever ;— till the mind , giddy with the contemplation of immensity and infinity , having caught a spark of the divine light , must , if it will not lose itself in the region to which it has soared , return back into itself , to become conscious indeed

    of its present finite being , yet also of its immortal destination . But when , by a review of itself and of its relation to its Creator , the mind has recovered its self-consciouness , with what feelings of veneration and holy ecstacy does it return to the contemplation of the starry spheres , accompanied by the enlivening thought that divine love is the inexhaustible , the only source , from which the worlds receive their light and life , —or

    rather , the worlds themselves are but sparkling drops drawn ¦ from that eternal fountain . It is then the mind perceives with joy , that as now the corporeal eye can pierce through immeasurable space , travelling on to stars almost inconceivably remote , so , doubtless , in the future , no distance will be absolutely beyond the reach of the ever-expanding mind ; as here we walk with the friends of our bosom through the blooming meadows , and

    rejoice in the varied fragrance and colour of the flowers and foliage , so hereafter , endowed with new freedom , and supported by the immaterial arm of love , we shall soar away in the glittering light of a sun the parent of our luminary , and delighted with the sweet-sounding vibration of the thousand , thousand stars which move in ceaseless harmony , and elevated b y their rich and multifarious lii ' o , we shall attain ever more ana more exalted conceptions of the majesty of God .

    l > ut m order to obtain an ever increasing knowledge oi God , by which means alone we gain w neurer and nearer union with Hrm , we must resolve to quit the bright regions of the stars arid descend to the lowly earth . And , as the Eternal ever trianifests his Divine Unity through endless contrast , we must tVow fafvrle&Hl y penetrate into the grey twilight which ericom-* Turn slated from tlit * Kosinormiui of Carov £ , author of the "Story without an 1-iiul ' ' ( ( ' ontmiuul from }> uf . ><* 79 /> , vol . IX . )

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    NATURE AND HER FORMS . *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/52/