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The Universal Dominion of Law, May 2
The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that
dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon
the floods.
Psalm 24:1, 2
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Upon all created things is seen the impress of the Deity. Nature testifies of
God. The susceptible mind, brought in contact with the miracle and mystery of
the universe, cannot but recognize the working of infinite power. Not by its own
inherent energy does the earth produce its bounties, and year by year continue
its motion around the sun. An unseen hand guides the planets in their circuit
of the heavens. A mysterious life pervades all nature—a life that sustains the
unnumbered worlds throughout immensity, that lives in the insect atom which
floats in the summer breeze, that wings the flight of the swallow and feeds the
young ravens which cry, that brings the bud to blossom, and the flower to fruit.
The same power that upholds nature is working also in man. The same great
laws that guide alike the star and the atom control human life. The laws that
govern the heart’s action, regulating the flow of the current of life to the body, are
the laws of the mighty Intelligence that has the jurisdiction of the soul. From Him
all life proceeds. Only in harmony with Him can be found its true sphere of action.
For all the objects of His creation the condition is the same—a life sustained by
receiving the life of God, a life exercised in harmony with the Creator’s will. To
transgress His law, physical, mental, or moral, is to place one’s self out of harmony
with the universe, to introduce discord, anarchy, ruin.
To him who learns thus to interpret its teachings, all nature becomes illumi-
nated; the world is a lesson book, life a school. The unity of man with nature and
with God, the universal dominion of law, the results of transgression, cannot fail
of impressing the mind and molding the character....
So far as possible, let the child from his earliest years be placed where this
wonderful lesson book shall be open before him. Let him behold the glorious
scenes painted by the great Master Artist upon the shifting canvas of the heavens,
... let him watch the unfolding mysteries of the changing seasons, and, in all His
works, learn of the Creator.
In no other way can the foundation of a true education be so firmly and surely
laid. Yet even the child, as he comes in contact with nature, will see cause for
perplexity. He cannot but recognize the working of antagonistic forces. It is
here that nature needs an interpreter. Looking upon the evil manifest even in the
natural world, all have the same sorrowful lesson to learn—“An enemy hath done
this.” ... Only in the light that shines from Calvary can nature’s teaching be read
aright.—
Education, 99-101
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