"_Then shall the righteous shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear let him hear._" (Matt. xiii. 43.) * * * * * We have quoted the foregoing Scriptural passages--to which we might add scores of others of similar import--to show the connection of the element of fire, heat and light--with God himself, and that while it proves the agency; at least in dispensing His blessings to all animated life, and can be so controlled by Him that--even in its intensity--it cannot harm the righteous, either in body or spirit, when He interposes; yet it is the certain agency of destruction, and the torment of the wicked at His will; or without this interposition. Certain it is, that it is the _agency_ by which He has made Himself manifest to man, and this agency still continues in the dispensing of all the manifold blessings we enjoy, day by day, and should cause every heart to turn to Him with reverence and grateful emotions. The mind of the Christian world should acknowledge the omnipresence of the Infinite One; that He pervades all space, and is manifest in all things; while each individual should feel as Elihu did when he uttered the words, "The _Spirit_ of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life;" and exclaim with the Psalmist: "I will bless the Lord at all times, His praise shall continually be in my mouth. The eyes of the Lord are ever upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their cry. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." "Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God."