Sturm's Reflections on the Works of God and His Providence Throughout All Nature, Volume 1

Christoph Christian Sturm

J. J. Woodward, 1827 - Devotional exercises

Contents

• A Meditation upon Newyears Day: 5
• Winter has Blessings which are often disregarded: 14
• Gods providential Care of the Animal Creation: 20
• Of the Advantages of our Climate: 26
• An Uniformity of Temperature would be disadvan: 27
• Discoveries which have been made by the Microscope: 32
• Nature reposes during the Winter: 39
• Wisdom displayed in the Structure of the Globe: 42
• The Fear of Apparitions: 49
• On the use of Bread: 55
• Of the Influence which Cold has upon health: 60
• Consideration of the Stars: 63
• Of the Tides: 69
• Formation of Ice: 75
• 63: 79
• Of Brutes: 81
• Principle of Combustion generally diffused through: 87
• Causes of the Vicissitudes of Heat and Cold: 94
• Gods Love for Man daily manifested: 98
• The Utility of Mountains: 102
• The Soul becomes elevated by reflecting upon: 105
• The Utility of Mountains: 105
• Unpleasant Weather: 106
• Winds and Tempests: 109
• The Effects of Winter gradually depart: 112
• Hope of Spring: 116
• Hoarfrost: 118
• Difference existing between Animals and Plants: 122
• Uniformity and Diversity in the Works of Nature: 124
• Of Seeds: 126
• Structure of the Human heart: 132
• Every Thing created has its Use: 135
• of Caves found in Mountains: 142
• Gradual Approach of Night: 146
• Hymn for the Commencement of Spring: 152
• Motion of the Earth: 155
• 153: 157
• Sunrise: 159
• The Milkyway: 163
• Abundant Riches of Nature: 163
• The Milkyway: 163
• Germination of Plants: 164
• Diversity of Soil: 169
• Necessity of Repose during the Night 171: 171
• Prognostic Signs of the Weather: 176
• Position of the Sun: 177
• The Permanency of Corporeal Beings: 179
• of Respiration: 182
• Beneficial Influence of the Sun upon the Creation: 186
• Propagation of Plants: 192
• Diversity of Traits in the Human Countenance: 194
• The Utility of Forests: 200
• Hymn of Praise upon the Beauties of Spring: 206
• Blossoms of Trees: 208
• Spring renews the Face of the Earth: 215
• Of the continual Revolutions and Changes that take: 219
• An Invitation to seek God in the works of Nature: 219
• 57: 219
• Indefatigable labours of the Bee: 221
• Nourishment of Animals: 223
• 217: 219
• 63: 226
• Zoophites: 228
• 69: 227
• The Tulip: 230
• 76: 234
• Description of the Beauties of Spring: 236
• Of the Number and Magnitude of Creatures upon: 239
• 2: 241
• Spring emblematical of the Resurrection of the Body: 243
• Harmony of Bees: 250
• Difference between the Works of Nature and of Art: 256
• Vivifying Power of the Sun: 260
• Use of venomous Animals and Plants: 267
• Odour of Flowers: 268
• Multitude of Animals: 270
• Means of Happiness derived from Nature: 276
• Wisdom displayed in the structure of the Bodies: 282
• External Parts of Plants: 289
• Beginning of Summer: 295
• Electricity: 303
• The Stalk of Wheat: 310
• The Blight: 312

Popular passages

Page 31 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Page 10 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Page 11 - The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.

Page 31 - ... and it was so. On the fourth day God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and for years : and it was so.

Page 10 - Thou, even thou, art LORD alone ; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their hosts, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them all ; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.

Page 133 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.

Page 31 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

Page 123 - Behold the fowls of the air ; they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns ; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.

Page 31 - God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so ; and God called the firmament heaven : and the evening and the morning were the second day. The waters still covered the face of the earth, when on the third day God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear...

Page 123 - For of him, and through him, and to him are all things. To whom he glory for ever. Amen.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sturm's Reflections on the Works of God and His Providence Throughout All Nature, Volume 1; Sturm's Reflections on the Works of God and His Providence Throughout All Nature, Christoph Christian Sturm
• Author: Christoph Christian Sturm
• Publisher: J. J. Woodward, 1827
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: May 15, 2006