The Existence of Deity Shines forth in His Works.
Observe the variety of voice, features, and hand-writing among men. Had man been formed by any but a wise God, this variety could scarcely have existed. The same structure of parts would have produced the same effects. But now we never find two faces exactly alike, nor the tones of two voices alike, nor the hand-writing of two men alike. Children of the same family differ in their features. The same parental voice is before them for imitation, and hundreds are taught by the same writing-master. Were it not for their variety, constant confusions would occur in society. Men could not distinguish their friends from their foes, nor would written contracts furnish any security. But now we distinguish men by their features in the light, by their voice, in darkness, and their writing, when distant. Surely, this must be the arrangement of a great, intelligent cause. What is the atmosphere of our globe? A subtle, penetrating fluid, necessary to the existence of plants, of animals, and of men, promoting health and comfort in all orders of creatures upon the earth, and adapted by its constituent elements to this end. It is the medium by which the birds are borne aloft on beauteous wing: the organ of sound now breaking forth in all the majesty of the rolling thunder, and now, delighting the ear, in the soft and harmonious tones of the instrument and the voice; carrying through all places, by reflection, the light of the sun, and modifying its influence upon vision, by the early and the latter twilight; again, roused into violence, and forming the blast, the storm, and the hurricane to disperse and purify the noxious vapors that otherwise would make the globe one entire burying-field. Would any, upon reflection, be so bold as to assert that a substance surrounding the earth, and yet so different from the earth itself, and subserving such important ends, happened to come into existence? Does it not display contrivance and design? Who is the contriver? Whose is the mind that designed this instrumentality? Intelligent nature with one voice exclaims: "This Being is God!"