Rabbi, had a disobedient Son. Among other worthless tricks of various kinds, he had the baseness to give his Dogs his Father's names and titles. Should the King shew his anger on the Prince or the Dogs?-Well turned, rejoined the Philosopher: but if your God destroyed the objects of idolatry he would take away the temptation to it. Yea, retorted the Rabbi, if the Fools worshipped such things only as were of no further use than that to which their Folly applied them, if the Idol were always as worthless as the Idolatry is contemptible. But they worship the Sun, the Moon, the Host of Heaven, the Rivers, the Sea, Fire, Air, and what not? Would you that the Creator, for the sake of these Fools, should ruin his own Works, and disturb the the laws appointed to Nature by his own Wisdom? If a man steals grain and sows it, should the seed not shoot up out of the earth, because it was stolen? O no! the wise Creator lets Nature run her own course; for her course is his own appointment. And what if the children of folly abuse it to evil? The day of

reckoning is not far off, and men will then

learn that human actions likewise re-appear in their consequences by as certain a law as the green blade rises up out of the buried cornseed.