Pursuing this reasoning upon _effect_ from _cause_, (and without which we cannot advance in wisdom) the following singular result must not only be apparent, but actually would be obtained,--viz., A Cloud surcharged with rain, and at a low distance from the Earth, and on a calm day, could be compelled to restore its stolen treasure, without waiting for its own period of honesty! This could be done by _artificial_ means, yet the living _cause_ would be that of _Nature_ and her laws,--viz., by _heat_. As thus,--if beneath that Rain-Cloud should be erected combustible matter covering a large extent; and upon being ignited the gathered heat _should reach that cloud_,--as a necessity, the heavier cold air within, and around, that mass of vapour, would descend towards the partial vacuum occasioned by the heat,--with more or less speed according to the intensity,--and thence discharge the accumulated particles of rain upon the flame! In following out the above train of reasoning, another secret is unveiled,--viz., During the dreadful Conflagrations of Cities and Capitals,--of Forests or Prairies,--it is almost invariably recorded, that the light wind increased to a breeze,--from that to a gale, or hurricane, and perhaps from a friendly quarter,--or that the Rain descended in torrents, and so Providentially extinguished the fierce fury of the flaming element:--in both these cases they were indeed Providential, for they were based upon the undeviating laws of _cause_ and _effect_,--of GOD and _Nature_! By thus tracing the second principle (for it has its own results) to the first, how much is Religious veneration increased, when reflecting upon The Great Cause of the entire Universe!--The _effects_ then appear but as the sparkling atoms of His ever brilliant Glory,--and the myriad of Worlds the mere witnesses of His infinite Power! We have digressed,--we were never yet upon a happy path, or pursuit, that we did not wish to follow it out,--for true happiness is found only in the walks of wisdom. It may perhaps be proper to state, that the Orient Gale is mentioned in various parts of Scripture, and especially by the following inspired writers,--viz., MOSES [Exodus x. 13.--xiv. 21.] DAVID [Psalms xlviii. 7.] HOSEA [xiii. 15.] JEREMIAH [xviii. 17.] and by EZEKIEL [xvii. 10.--xix. 12.--xxvii. 26.] The great miracles of the plague of Locusts,--and the Passage of the Red Sea, were both carried into effect by the instrumentality of this celebrated Wind. "And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an _East-wind_ upon the land all that day, and all that night: and when it was morning _the East-wind_ brought the locusts." "And Moses stretched out his hand over the Sea: and the LORD caused the Sea to go back by _a strong East-wind_ all that night, and made the Sea dry land, and the waters were divided." "Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with _an East-wind_."