The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-01-16


and beneath all that minuteness whicI
) the aided eye Of man has been able t,
explore, there may lie region of invis
ibles; and that could we draw aside th,
mysterious curtain which shrouds il
from our senses, we might see thea
tire of as many wonders as astronomy
has unfolded, universe Jwithin-the com
lpass of point so small as to elude all
the powers of the microscope, but when
the Bonder-working God finds room for
the exercise ofaH His attributes, where
He can raise another mechanism of
worlds, and fill and animate them all
with the evidences of His glory.
Now, mark how all this may be made
to meet the argument of our in6del as
trenomers. By the telescope they have
discovered that no magnitude, however
vast, is beyond the grasp of Divinity
But, by the microscope, We have also
discovered that no minuteness, however
shrunk from the notice of the human
eye, is beneath His condescensicn or
His regard Every addition TO the
powers of the one instrument extends
the limits of His visible dominions.-
But, by every addition to the powers of
the other instrument, we see each part
of them moro crowded than before with
the wonders of His unweary hand. The
one is constantly widening the circle of
his territory. The other is as constant
ly filling up the separate portions with
all that is rich, and various, aud exquis-
ite. In word, by the one 1 am told
that the Almighty is Low at work in
regions more distant than geometry has
ever measured, and in worlds more
manifold than numbers have ever reach
ed. But, by the other, am also told,
that with mind to comprehend the
whole, in the vast compass of its gener-
ality, He has also mind to concentrate
close and separate attention on each
and all of its particulars; and that the
same God who sends forth an upholding
influence among the orbs and the move
ments as astronomy, can ELL the recess
es of every single atom with the intima-
cy of his presence, aud travel in all the
greatness of His unimpairsd attributes,
upon every one spot and corner of the
universe He has formed. .ae
They therefore, who think that God
will not put forth such power, and
such a goodness, and such a condescen-
sion, in behalf of this world, as is as
cribed to Him in the New Testament
because He has SO mapx other worlds
to attend to, think of him as a man.
They con6ne their views to the informa-
tion of the telescope, and forget alto
gether tho information of the other in
strument. They only find room in their
minds for His one attribute of large
and general superin sendencc and keep |
out of their remembrance the equally
proof we have for his other
attribute, of a minute and multiplied at
tention to all that diversity of opera
tions where it is He that worketh all in
all.
And when think that as one of the
of philosophy has heighten-
I'd our very impression of the first of
these attributes, SO another instrument
has no less heightened our impression of
The second of them-then I can no long
sr resist the conclusion, that it would
be transgression of sound argument
IS well as daring impiety, TO draw a
INIT around the doings of an unsearcha-
Die God-and should professed reve-
ation from heaven tell me of an act-of
in behalf of some sepa-
rate world, so wonderful that angels de-
sired to look into it, and the eternal
Son had to move from his seat of glory
o carry it into accomplishment, all I
lsk is the evidence of such revelation
or, let it tell me as much as it may of
God letting himself down for the bene-
it of one single province of His domin-
ons, this is no more than what I see
wing scattered in numberless examples
before me- and running through the
whole line of my recollections, and meet
ng me in every walk or observation to
which I can betake myself; and now
hat the microscope has unveiled the
wonders Of another region, I see strewed
Iround me, with profusion which battles
ny very attempt to comprehend it, the
vidence that there is no one portion of
he universe of God too minute for His
lotice, nor too humble for the visita-
ions of His care. z49sc
It is wonderful thing that God
hculd be SO unincumbered by the con-
erns of the whole universe, that He can
i've a constant attention to every
movement of every individual in this
vorld's population. But, wonderful as !
{ is, you do not hesitate to admit as
rue, on the evidence of your recollec- '
ion. It is most wonderful thing, that q
lie, whose eye is at every instant on SO
many worlds, should have peopled the
gorid we inhabit, with all the traces of
he varied designs of benevolence which I
bound in it. Il
But, great as the wonder is, you do :