The  word  of  God  is  in  every  man,  if  he  will  listen.  God  is
with  us  in  all  Nature,  if  we  will  but  read  the  written  law ;
written  not  on  tables  of  stone,  but  on  the  wide  expanse  of
nature.  Yes,  the  savage  is  more  right.  God  is  in  the  clouds,
and  we  hear  him  in  the  wind.  Yes;  and  in  the  curse  of
ignorance,  and  the  voice  of  reprobation,  there  too  is  God,  —
warning  us  of  ignorance,  —  of  unbelief  of  temper,  —  put-
ting another  law  in  our  way,  that  we  may  read  and  interpret
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the  book  of  fate.  O !  that  some  great  teacher  would  arise,
and  make  himself  heard  from  the  mountain  top!  The  man
whom  they  crucified  on  this  day  gave  a  sermon  on  a  mount.
