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Evidences of God’s Greatness, May 20
For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph
in the works of thy hands. O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy
thoughts are very deep.
Psalm 92:4, 5
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The scenery through which we passed [
Ellen White is here describing
a carriage journey in switzerland.
] was altogether too majestic, too awfully
grand, to give anything like a description that can compare to the scenery
as it really is. The battlements of rocks—the timeworn rocky walls that
have stood since the Flood, washed with the mountain torrents—stand out
smooth as if polished, while rocks diverse from these in shape are seen
in regular layers, as if art had fashioned them. Here ... we viewed the
most interesting, grand scenery that our eyes ever looked upon. The rocks
ascend higher and still higher from the earth, and growing from these rocks
are beautiful, dark-colored pines intermingled with the lighter and most
beautiful living green of the maple and beech.... Such wild grandeur, such
solemn scenery, carries one back to the period when the waters rose to the
highest points of land, and the unbelieving antediluvians perished for their
great wickedness in the waters of the Flood.
As we look upon ... the rocks of every conceivable shape, we say, “How
wonderful, O Lord, are thy works in all the earth.” The softening, subduing
touches penciled by the great Master Artist in the beautiful arrangement
of dress of dark and living green, this beautiful combination of colors to
cover the rugged, time-seamed rocks! Then the deep gorges, the noisy,
fast-rushing streams, and the grand mountains covered with forest trees in
their beautiful summer robes!
The view is grand in the extreme, and presents to the senses such high
and holy and strong and sacred ideas of God our Maker. And then the
thought that we may call Him Father! ... If anyone can look upon this
scenery without being impressed with the greatness and majesty of God,
his heart must indeed be unimpressible. I do so long for a closer connection
with God. This God of majesty and might may be our Father, our Friend,
our hope and crown of rejoicing
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