Gazette Of The United States

"There is something peculiarly delightful to the mind in tracing such analogies between the natural and moral world, as tend to throw light on many important subjects, and to confirm our faith in the sublime doctrines of our holy religion.—The origin and progressive stages of the butterfly's existence are beautifully illustrative of the nature, changes, and future destiny of man. The butterfly is produced from a caterpillar, which having moved for a season in its lowly narrow sphere, falls into a state of torpid insensibility. Thus it continues during the gloom of winter; but when the gladsome beam of spring appears, it is re-animated, bursts its confinement, soars aloft, acquires new beauty, power, and vigour. Its scene of action, its enjoyments, its exercises are changed; the substance is retained, but the modification is totally altered: It is at once another, and the same.—Attend then to the demonstrations of annual experience, and say— 'Why should it be thought incredible that God should raise the dead?'"