Oh blind and heedless that we are.
Truly said the wise man--"An undevout astronomer is mad." And truly said
another wise man, an Englishman--the saintly philosopher Faraday, now
with God,--"How could he be otherwise than religious; when at every step
he found himself brought more closely face to face with the signs of a
mind constructed like his own, with an aim and a purpose which he could
understand, employing ways and means, and tending clearly to an end, and
methodically following out a system which he could both perceive and
grasp." Such a man's whole life is one act of reverence to that God in
whose inner presence he finds himself illuminated and strengthened; and
if there be revelation of divine things on earth, it is when the hidden
secrets of nature are disclosed to the sincere and self-denying seeker
after truth.
Yes, that is true. The more you look into the world around you, and
consider every flower, and bird, and stone, the more you will see that a
Mind planned them, even the mind of God; a Mind like yours and mine; but
how infinitely different, how much deeper, wiser, vaster.
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