the young are left in the egg state of embryo orphanism, remaining in that state to brave the severity of frost in winter, which, exposed as they are upon a bare twig, they are enabled to survive without injury. Who but the all-wise Creator has enabled these embryo little ones, and also their congeniers, that having escaped destruction, remain during the winter, in a state of chrysalis, exposed upon walls, to withstand the severest frost and cold, like dry seeds, without injury? Who provides for this innumerable, helpless family of little embryo orphans ? Who provides the buds, those little cases containing within them, neatly folded, and closely and securely packed up, and sealed with gum, the germs of future provision? Who instructed the maternal insects, before they died, to cluster their eggs round the basement walls of these vegetable stores, there to remain unhatched till their appointed time, till the doors of those small receptacles of food unfolded or burst upon their hinges, and the leafy pabulum shoots forth in the spring? The larvæ of

this law of emigration, we see they cheerfully and annually comply; as if led by some guiding instinct, alternating backward and forward, crossing and re-crossing the equinoctial line, according as winter reigned in the temperate zones of either hemisphere, of which they are natives. They are truly cosmopolitans.

An all-wise and bountiful Providence has not caused the wonderful modern facilities of transit by steam to be invented, at the present advanced period of the world, for no purpose; and one purpose appears to be, as given at the creation, to replenish the earth, and subdue it; and the ultimate end, "Be ye saved, all ye ends of the earth," towards which happy consummation hath He opened up the highway of the nations.

Facilities so excellently adapted to the present circumstances of the world, without which, as in times past, before the invention of steamers and locomotives, it would have been difficult to have got together in so short a time from foreign parts, the works of industry of all nations, as collected and ex

hibited in the grand Crystal Palace. And as to the speedy arrival of the vast concourse of visitors and spectators, both native and foreign; the same facilities of expeditious voyaging, and travel by rail, are highly appreciable, and convenient to that concentration in the metropolis-an event which, under former modes of transit scarcely thirty years ago, it would have been futile to have attempted, much less achieved. Truly his way is in the sea, and his paths in the great waters, and his footsteps are not known. If an overruling Providence has thus prepared the way, and taught mankind in a manner to fly without fatigue, upon the wings of the wind and elements, why should human beings in distressed circumstances be less wise than the birds of the air? when at the same time there are extraordinary means and facilities, equal to, if not surpassing in convenience, those possessed by the birds of passage, to get off to regions of plenty, where abundance of room to increase and multiply, and replenish the earth, invites.

But there is nothing impossible with God, as we shall, if we have not already seen. He has many ways of preserving his creatures. Though emigration to, and immigration in large continents, as it is still going on in the far west, appear to be two of the natural resources appointed by Providence for the spread of mankind; still He is able to open up means whereby a dense population, crowded together like a new swarm of bees just hived, may, by the exercise of industry and skill in every department of the useful arts, find the means of subsistence. The result we see in the mechanical wonders of the present day; the results of help-hands, for I have no lands, that whilst the industrious and skilful artizans are busily employed at home, vast numbers equally enterprising, and more adventurous, as if "indociles pauperiem pati," voyage forth in merchant vessels over the mighty ocean, to all parts of the world; carrying out exports, and bringing home imports in exchange, like bees sallying forth over the flowery meads, and returning laden with sweets to the hive.

"Fervet opus, redolentque thymo fragrantia mella."

When straitened for room, the young swarms of bees quit the hive, their native home, and seek new settlements. And the industrious ants found new colonies. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise." Bees, and other industrious workers, as ants, survive the winter, partly in a state of dormancy,-another wonderful method whereby creatures not being furnished with the requisite powers for emigration when their food fails in the winter, are preserved, in which state the reptilia, as snakes, vipers, lizards, amphibia, and other species, also some species of Mammalia, as bats, remain; also dormice and hedgehogs, the two latter forming for themselves warm hybernaculums, in which they comfortably sleep through the severity of winter.

And how many other creatures are there in the state of chrysalis thus provided for! Truly the ways and means of Providence for employment, provision, preservation, and salvation are many and wonderful! "The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.” *

* Ps. iii. 2.