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Let not the constant and regular operations of Deity in
the course of nature & providence be overlooked. Like the people
who "did eat of the loaves & were filled" we take and enjoy
the repast but discern not the miracle which produced it.
The naturalist traces the progress of vegitation as an armyment
as a branch of science. The husbandman perceives it
as his destined occupation he casts feed into the ground
leaves it there and goes to sleep observes it day after day
springing and growning up he knoweth not how first the
blade then the ear after that they full corn in the ear but
his eye and his heart are all the while set on the time of
putting in the sickle when the hervest is come. The eager
merchant too watches The process as a comercial speculation
as favorable or unfavorable to his plans of buying and
selling & getting gain. With what a different eye does
a devotional spirit contemplate Diety as spreading a table
for every thing that lives! The Christian considers the
fare upon his own board whether simple or sumptuous
flowing in whatever channel coming from the east
or from the west fromt he south or from the north
as a supply immediately furnished by the hand of his
heavenly Father as children
s bread as a foretast of the
rich provision of his Fathers house above. This
communicates to ordinary things a relish unknown
to