Bold, overhanging, and, as it were, threatening rocks, thunderclouds piled up the vault of heaven, borne along with ﬂashes and peals, volcanoes in all their violence of destruction, hurricanes leaving desolation in their track, the boundless ocean rising with rebellious force, the high waterfall of some mighty river, and the like, make our power of resistance of triﬂing moment in comparison with their might.