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LIGHT:
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PROPERTIES AND EFFECTS.

Great source of day! blest image here below
Of thy Creator, ever pouring wide
From world to world the vital ocean round,
On nature write with every beam His praise.

THOMSON.

LONDON:
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY;

Instituted 1799.
SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORY, 56, PATERNOSTER RJW
AND 65, st. PAUL'S CHURTHYARD'S AND

BY THE BOOKSELLERS

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 794301A

ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

R 1935 L

LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,

Bangor House, Shoe Lane.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Page

The Origin of all things - The Claims of God as a Creator -- Lu-

minous Plants-The Phosphorescence of the Sea-Number of Marine

Animals - Providential Care - The Glow-worm - The Fire-fly-The

Candle-fly

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CHAPTER II.

Meteors-The Star of Jacob-The Magi—The Divine Redeemer-The

Sun of Righteousness—Rising and Setting of the Sun and Stars-Sun-

rise in Italy

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CHAPTER III.

The Statue of Memnon—The Morning Hymn of Adam and Eve-The

only Saviour-The Moon-Singular effects of Moonlight Joshua's

command to the Sun and Moon-The Shadow going back on the

Sun-dial of Ahaz-The Darkness at the Crucifixion

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