![]() He may be a naturalist, boasting of his ability to dissect a beetle, anatomize a fly, or arrange insects and animals in classes with well nigh unutterable names he may be a geologist, able to discourse of the megatherium and the plesiosaurus, and all kinds of extinct animals he may imagine that his science, whatever it is, ennobles and enlarges his mind. He who often thinks of God, will have a larger mind than the man who simply plods around this narrow globe. We shall be obliged to feel-īut while the subject humbles the mind it also expands it. Thought, that vain man would be wise, but he is like a wild ass's colt and with the solemn exclamation, "I am but of yesterday, and know nothing." No subject of contemplation will tend more to humble the mind, than thoughts of God. ![]() Other subjects we can compass and grapple with in them we feel a kind of self-content, and go our way with the thought, "Behold I am wise." But when we come to this master-science, finding that our plumb-line cannot sound its depth, and that our eagle eye cannot see its height, we turn away with the It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity. There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father. ![]() ![]() It has been said by some one that "the proper study of mankind is man." I will not oppose the idea, but I believe it is equally true that the proper study of God's elect is God the proper study of a Christian is the Godhead. "I am the Lord, I change not therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."- Mal 3:6 Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 7th, 1855, by the ![]()
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