Few subjects are calculated to awaken in the mind of the Christian a juster source of pleasure, than the increasing relations between the disclosures of Nature and of Revelation. The time appears to have utterly passed away in which the devout believer could see, in the investigations of the laws of Nature, any ground for apprehension that the basis of faith in the economy of Providence might thereby be weakened. Natural philosophy, geology, chemistry, astronomy, and all the varied subdivisions of science, are found the ready handmaids of the great Book of Revelation, from whence we learn the purposes of God to man; and it is the glory of modern science that it restores the Book of Nature to the same Divine Author, and traces out his overruling presence alike in the works of creation and providence.
The following pages are designed to present, in a pleasing and attractive form, those most striking phenomena which, in every department of creation,