The beautiful little newts' life-history is much the same, only that
their transformation is not quite so complete, for they never lose their
lizard-like tails, but remain little crocodiles to the end of the chapter.
"_Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father
who is in heaven is merciful._"
"Turn, turn thy hasty foot aside,
Nor crush that helpless worm;
The frame thy wayward looks deride
None but our God could form.
"The common Lord of all that move,
From whom thy being flow'd,
A portion of His boundless love
On that poor worm bestow'd.
"The light, the air, the dew He made
To all His creatures free,
And spreads o'er earth the grassy blade
For them as well as thee.
"Let them enjoy their little day,
Their lowly bliss receive;
Oh! do not lightly take away
The life thou can'st not give."
GISBORNE.
THE SIXTH DAY.
THE ANIMAL WORLD.
"_Every beast of the forest is Mine, and the cattle upon a thousand
hills._"--PSALM l. 10.
"_... God ... who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh
us wiser than the fowls of heaven._"--JOB xxxv. 11.
"_Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the
beast that goeth downward to the earth?_"--ECCLESIASTES iii. 21.
Now that we have come to the last of those wonderful working-days of which
God has told us, I want you--just as we all did when we had reached the
SIXTH DAY in our readings--to read over again all the verses in the first
chapter of Genesis down to verse 26, and to notice carefully the _words_
which God has used in speaking to us about what He created and made.
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