12 POPULAR, SORIPTURE ZOOLOGY.

Creator has designed for all His creatures? Do we honour
a painter, when despising, or looking with perfect indiffer-
ence on, his worksP Do we show our admiration of a
poet or a musician, by turning with apathy from the noble
thoughts of the one, and the sublime strains of the other P
Do we consider it sufficient to pay them a few unmeaning
compliments? Assuredly not; we study their works, and
learn still more to admire the painter, the poet, and the mu-
sician. Study, then, the works of God, from the firmament
which showeth His handiwork, to the drop of water teeming
with the life He has bestowed, nor consider those creatures
unworthy of regard, which are honoured by the notice of the
wisest men of ancient times ;—by David, the sweet Psalmist
of Israel ; by Solomon, the wise king of the Hebrews; by
prophets, and by moralists, and, above all, by the great
teacher Jesus Christ, who illustrated His sublime and
beautiful Sermon on the Mount with allusions both to
animals and plants. “Give not that which is holy unto
the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine.” “‘ Be-
hold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father
feedeth them.” “Consider the lilies of the field, how they
grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say