Wesley tells us farther, that before the sin of Adam, "The air was always serene and always friendly to man." Now the air is still always _friendly to man_. Even when it comes in the form of hurricanes and tempests, it is so. It is doing work, even then, _good work_, which gentle breezes are _unable_ to do. It is carrying away dangers which gentler currents of air would not have the power to carry away. And even when they cause destruction in their course, they are still performing friendly offices to man. They are inspiring him with a livelier consciousness of his absolute dependence upon God, and of the folly of resisting His will. They are exercising his intellectual powers, by leading him to devise means for his protection from their fury, and obliging him also to exert his bodily powers in carrying out the devices of his intellect. They are, in fact, contributing to make him a wiser, a stronger, a better, a happier, and in all respects, a completer, and a diviner being than he otherwise would be. We agree therefore with Wesley that the air before Adam sinned was always _friendly to man_; but we do not agree with him in his notions as to what _constituted_ its friendliness; nor do we agree with him in the notion, that since the sin of Adam the air has _ceased_ to be friendly, or even proved to be _less_ friendly, to man. We believe that the air is as friendly to man now as it ever was,--that it does him as little mischief, that it contributes as much to his well-being and comfort, as it ever did.