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Chapter 10—God in Nature
On all created things is seen the impress of the Deity. Nature
testifies of God. The susceptible mind, brought into 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.
The same power that upholds nature is working also in hu-
mankind. The same great laws that guide both 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 jurisdiction of the soul. From Him
all life proceeds. Its true sphere of action can be found only in har-
mony with Him. To transgress His law, physical, mental, or moral,
is to place one’s self out of harmony with the universe, introducing
discord, anarchy, and ruin.
To those who learn thus to interpret its teachings, all nature
becomes illuminated; the world is a lesson book, life a school. The
unity of human beings with nature and with God, the universal
dominion of law, the results of transgression, cannot fail to impress
the mind and mold the character.
These are lessons that our children need to learn. To the little
child nature presents an unfailing source of instruction and delight.
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And for those of older years, needing its silent reminders of the
spiritual and eternal, nature’s teaching will be no less a source of
pleasure and instruction. The unseen is illustrated by the seen. On
everything they may see the image and superscription of God.
So far as possible, children from their earliest years should be
placed where this wonderful lesson book is open before them. Let
them look at the glorious scenes painted by the great Master Artist
on the shifting canvas of the heavens; let them become acquainted
with the wonders of earth and sea; let them watch the unfolding
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